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The industry is hiring.
Here's how you get in.

Find the path that fits you, see the openings you can actually get, understand what each role really involves, close your skill gaps and get personal help from people who do the work. Every listing is real and sourced from the employer.

Find Your Path
/ Find your path

Six questions. One clear direction.

Most newcomers don't know whether to aim for facilities, power, networks, construction, compute or the commercial side. Answer honestly and we'll recommend the paths that fit, explain why, and show you the openings and guides for each.

Question 1 of 6

Where are you starting from?

All 8 paths: Facilities & critical operations · Power & electrical · Mechanical & cooling · Network & fiber · Construction & commissioning · Cloud, compute & GPU systems · Energy, grid & sustainability · Commercial & business. Answers are stored anonymously to improve the guidance.

/ Early career

Openings you can actually get.

Internships, apprenticeships, graduate programs and roles that ask for little or no experience, separated from senior positions. Eligibility is assessed from the employer's own listing text: titles, years-of-experience statements and early-talent labels.

14 early-career openings · 5 employers

Nebius

Commercial & corporateEarly career

United States

Workplace not specifiedOn-call
$85k–$107k/yr▼ Below peers

Source: Greenhouse · Employer-sourced listing

Nebius

Data center operationsEarly career

Oklahoma, United States

Workplace not specifiedOn-call
$26.00 – $38.00 per hour · ≈$54k–$79k/yr▼ Below peers

Source: Greenhouse · Employer-sourced listing

CoreWeave

Commercial & corporateEarly career

New York, NY

Workplace not specified
$83k–$110k/yr▼ Below peers

Source: Greenhouse · Employer-sourced listing

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All early-career roles on the board
/ Role guides

Roles in the industry, in plain English.

What you'll actually do, the conditions you'll work in, the skills that matter and where each role leads, without the jargon. Open any guide, then jump to the live openings for that specialism.

/ Certifications

Certifications that open doors.

The right credential signals capability and unlocks interviews. These programs are recognized across the industry. Start where you are. DCYB helps members map the right path to the right role.

DCIEIDCA

Data Center Infrastructure Expert

Foundational expertise across data center infrastructure.

For those entering or formalizing their knowledge of the field.

DCESIDCA

Data Center Energy Specialist

Focused on energy efficiency and power management.

For roles touching sustainability and operations.

DCISIDCA

Data Center Infrastructure Specialist

Advanced infrastructure design and operations.

For experienced practitioners.

PTCPTC

PTC Beyond Academy

Connectivity, subsea, and global infrastructure fundamentals.

For those building a broad industry foundation.

Other respected programs exist, including Uptime Institute and CNet. DCYB helps members choose the right path for their goals.

/ Skills gap & training plan

Turn “not qualified yet” into a plan.

Choose a live listing. We pull the skills the employer asks for, separate essentials from nice-to-haves, and you tick what you already have. Everything left becomes a training plan with a concrete next step for each skill.

Skills are detected from the employer's listing text and may miss items written in unusual ways. Always read the full listing before applying.

/ Application prep

Explain your strengths without overstating them.

Role-specific résumé guidance, interview practice with what the interviewer is actually listening for, and examples of how experience from other industries transfers into data centers.

Résumé guidance · Data center operations

  • · Show shift reliability: attendance, 24/7 environments, escalation experience.
  • · Call out any procedure-driven work (checklists, MOPs, lockout/tagout).
  • · List equipment you have touched: UPS, generators, chillers, PDUs, BMS screens.
  • · Include physical readiness and willingness to work rotating shifts.

Applies to every role

  • · Lead with a two-line summary that names the path you want (e.g. critical facilities) and the proof you have, even if it comes from another industry.
  • · Quantify everything: MW or kW you supported, tickets closed per shift, uptime maintained, budget managed, cables terminated.
  • · Mirror the exact terms in the listing (UPS, BMS, commissioning, Kubernetes) only where you can genuinely speak to them in an interview.
  • · List certifications and safety training in their own section; hiring managers scan for OSHA, NFPA 70E, EPA 608, CCNA and similar first.

Interview practice · tap a question

How your experience transfers

Military (Navy nukes, Air Force power production, Army generator mechanics)
Watch-standing, procedures and equipment ownership map directly to facilities operations.
HVAC, electrical or plumbing trades
Hands-on plant knowledge; add critical-environment procedures and you are hireable.
Hospital, manufacturing or hotel facilities
You already run 24/7 buildings; data centers add tighter redundancy and change control.
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/ Employer & career spotlights

Know who's hiring and what the work is like.

Clear profiles of the 24 employers whose listings appear on the board, led by the names the industry is hiring around right now: NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Oracle and Equinix, then the GPU clouds, colocation operators and power companies keeping them running. Plus day-in-the-life walkthroughs of the roles newcomers ask about most. Every employer here is included because their openings are live on the board; companies can also promote their own roles to DCYB members.

799 open roles across 24 employers, updated from the live feed.

NVIDIA

The accelerated computing company behind the AI buildout.

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Designs the GPUs, networking and full rack-scale systems that fill today's AI data centers, and runs its own research and cloud clusters to prove them out.

HQ
Santa Clara, California
Founded
1993
Ownership
Public · Nasdaq: NVDA
Footprint
Engineering and data center teams across the United States, Europe, Israel and Asia
Openings on the board

Google

Hyperscale campuses on every continent but Antarctica.

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Builds, owns and operates some of the largest data center campuses in the world, with in-house facilities technicians, controls engineers, energy negotiators and site developers.

HQ
Mountain View, California
Founded
1998
Ownership
Public · Nasdaq: GOOGL
Footprint
Dozens of owned hyperscale campuses across North America, Europe, Asia and South America
Openings on the board

OpenAI

Frontier AI, and the compute to train it.

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Builds frontier models and now the physical compute behind them: data center design, critical facilities, power and fleet infrastructure teams sit alongside the research organisation.

HQ
San Francisco, California
Founded
2015
Ownership
Private
Footprint
Multi-gigawatt Stargate campuses under development across the United States with partners
Openings on the board

Equinix

The world's digital infrastructure company.

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Operates the largest global colocation and interconnection platform; thousands of customers' racks sit inside Equinix IBX sites, run by its own operations, critical facilities and customer engineering teams.

HQ
Redwood City, California
Founded
1998
Ownership
Public · Nasdaq: EQIX
Footprint
260+ data centers in 70+ metros across 30+ countries
Openings on the board

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Day in the life · Critical Facilities Technician

A 12-hour shift on the facilities floor

  1. 06:00Shift turnover: review overnight alarms, open work orders and any vendor visits scheduled.
  2. 07:30Rounds through electrical and mechanical rooms; log UPS, generator and chiller readings against expected ranges.
  3. 11:00Escort a vendor performing generator maintenance; verify each step against the approved MOP.
  4. 15:00A cooling alarm trips in one hall. Follow the EOP, confirm redundancy is carrying load, notify the shift lead, document.
  5. 18:00Turnover to nights: open items, what changed, what to watch.

Reliability comes from discipline, not drama. Procedures, communication and attention to detail matter more than raw technical brilliance.

Composite profile built from typical duties in current listings, not an individual interview.

See Facilities & critical operations openings

Day in the life · Data Center Technician & Network Engineer

Turn-up week for a new GPU cluster

  1. Day 1Racks arrive pre-integrated. Technicians verify power, position and labels against the build document.
  2. Day 2Fiber and InfiniBand cabling terminated and tested; every failed optic or cable is logged and swapped.
  3. Day 3Network engineers bring up the fabric, validate link speeds and error counts.
  4. Day 4Platform team images nodes, runs burn-in and GPU diagnostics; hardware faults go back to the technicians.
  5. Day 5Cluster handed to the customer with a full inventory and known-issues list.

Hardware, network and software teams depend on each other. Technicians who understand the layer above them get promoted.

Composite profile built from typical duties in current listings, not an individual interview.

See Cloud, compute & GPU systems openings

Day in the life · Project Engineer & Commissioning Engineer

Six months before turnover on a hyperscale build

  1. Month 6Switchgear and generators arrive; project engineers track submittals and coordinate crane picks.
  2. Month 4Level 2 and 3 commissioning: verify installation and start up each system individually.
  3. Month 2Level 4 functional testing; deficiencies tracked daily with contractors.
  4. Month 1Integrated Systems Test: simulate utility loss and prove the facility rides through on generators.
  5. TurnoverDocumentation package handed to operations; punch list closed; customer begins move-in.

Construction roles are the fastest-growing entry point as new campuses break ground. Schedule literacy and calm under pressure are the currency.

Composite profile built from typical duties in current listings, not an individual interview.

See Construction & commissioning openings

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We publish employee interviews and hiring-manager Q&As as they're recorded. Any sponsored feature will be clearly labelled.

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/ For employers & partners

Hiring? Put your roles in front of the people who'll run the next 40 years.

Every visitor to the DCYB Job Board signs in with their email, saves roles and tracks applications. That makes this the one board in digital infrastructure where you know exactly who is looking, what they're targeting and when they're ready. Partners get that signal first.

Live roles

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Employers listed

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Early-career roles

14

Specialisms covered

10

Featured on the board today

Your company here

  • Featured placement

    Your logo tile at the top of the DCYB Job Board, next to NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Oracle and Equinix. Roles surface first, filtered to your company in one tap.

  • Curated candidate intros

    Members request intros to specific companies. We pre-screen against your open roles and send you warm, motivated candidates, not a résumé pile.

  • Early-career pipeline

    Interns, apprentices and graduates who already understand the industry from the Careers Hub. Fill technician and operations roles before your competitors notice the gap.

  • Employer story in The Wire

    A spotlight on your sites, culture and pathways, in front of the next generation of operators and the industry press that follows DCYB.

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/ Get help entering the industry

Advice from people who do the work.

A 30-minute video session with the DCYB team. We map your background to real roles, review your résumé and prepare you for interviews. The introductory call is free; if a longer program or paid training makes sense, we'll say so upfront before anything is scheduled.

Career direction

Which path fits your background, which roles to target first and what to skip.

Résumé review

Line-by-line feedback so your experience reads the way hiring managers scan.

Interview preparation

The questions you'll face for the role you're chasing and how to answer them honestly.

How it works

  1. Pick a time that suits you; the booking opens in a Calendly window.
  2. Add a line about where you are today and the roles you're looking at.
  3. Bring your résumé or a listing you want to talk through.

30 minutes · Video call · Free introductory session · Any paid options explained before you commit.

/ Your path

How DCYB gets you there.

Three steps. One door. Training that maps to real certifications, a community that opens real conversations, and placement into real roles.

Step 01
01

Learn.

Founder-taught training toward recognized certifications.

Step 02
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Connect.

An operator-grade community and direct industry bridges.

Step 03
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Place.

Job placement with hyperscalers, colos, OEMs, and energy partners.

The next decade of digital infrastructure will be built by people. We're building them.