Senior Technical Project Manager (Hardware Automation)

TL;DR

Senior Technical Project Manager (Hardware Automation): Driving the transformation of manual hardware operations into automated, scalable workflows for an AI cloud platform with an accent on zero-touch provisioning, firmware orchestration, and self-healing remediation. Focus on reducing operational toil, managing staged rollouts for production safety, and coordinating cross-functional infrastructure teams.

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Applicants must be authorized to work in the Netherlands.

Company

Nebius is building a full-stack AI cloud platform designed to support developers and enterprises in the global AI economy.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery of hardware automation programs, including zero-touch provisioning, firmware update pipelines, and automated validation.
• Translate high-level automation goals into structured project plans with clear milestones, dependencies, and success metrics.
• Coordinate across Hardware Automation, Infrastructure, data center operations, and network engineering teams to resolve dependencies.
• Manage operational safety through risk registers, staged rollout frameworks, and detailed failure mode analysis.
• Define and track outcome metrics such as manual operations hours eliminated and mean time to provision/remediate.
• Own the Hardware Automation team roadmap, prioritizing the backlog based on toil reduction and engineering complexity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical project or program management experience.
• 2+ years managing automation, platform engineering, or infrastructure tooling in a data center or cloud environment.
• Technical fluency in hardware and systems software (e.g., BMC, IPMI, PXE, firmware update mechanics).
• Demonstrated experience automating operational workflows and managing staged rollouts.
• Proficiency with project management tools like Jira, Linear, or Confluence.
• Must be authorized to work in the Netherlands.

Nice to have

• Previous background as a systems engineer, SRE, or infrastructure software engineer.
• Experience with Ironic, Tinkerbell, Redfish, or similar hardware automation domains.
• Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Salt.
• Exposure to physical data center operations (rack and stack, cabling, power/cooling).
• Knowledge of observability platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities.
• Flexibility and work-life balance.
• Collaborative, innovative, and international work environment.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact projects within the AI domain.