Cabling Consultant

Role Overview

Are you a Cabling Consultant looking to lead complex deployments at scale and set industry benchmarks for cabling excellence? This role involves leading the design, program management, and execution of large-scale, complex cabling deployments in data centre environments.

This role requires deep technical expertise in copper, fibre, and InfiniBand cabling systems, as well as proven leadership in managing multi-team operations for projects involving 20,000+ endpoints and large GPU clusters (5,000+ GPUs).

The Successful will be responsible for designing standards, building best practices, and supervising partners to ensure high-quality, efficient deployment of structured and point-to-point cabling infrastructures across multiple data halls.

Responsibilities

• Design Leadership
  • Develop and validate cabling designs for large-scale data centre environments, including leaf-spine and superspine architectures.
  • Define structured and point-to-point cabling standards and best practices for high-density deployments.
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and alignment with project specifications.
  • Plan and manage complex cabling projects involving 20,000+ cables across multiple topologies.
  • Coordinate and oversee multiple teams and partners working in 24×7 shifts to meet aggressive timelines.
  • Manage project schedules, budgets, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Deployment Supervision
  • Lead and supervise partner teams during installation of copper, fibre, and InfiniBand cabling.
  • Ensure proper labelling, documentation, and quality control throughout the deployment process.
  • Monitor progress and resolve technical or operational issues promptly.
• Standards & Best Practices
  • Establish and maintain cabling standards, documentation templates, and operational best practices for large-scale programs.
  • Drive continuous improvement in deployment methodologies and partner performance.

Skills & Experience

• Deep knowledge of copper, fibre, and InfiniBand cabling systems.
• Experience with large-scale deployments (10,000+ endpoints) and inter-data hall trunking.
• Proven experience with cabling for large GPU clusters (5,000+ GPUs).
• Familiarity with major cable providers: Corning, Panduit, CommScope.

Project Leadership

• Proven ability to program manage complex cabling projects with multiple teams and vendors.
• Strong organizational and communication skills to manage 24×7 operations.
• Work closely with selected partner and lead them through cabling phase.
• Work on definition and alignment of cabling, labelling, remediation teams.
• Management of shifts, teams’ rotation, efficient handover.
• Communication and lead of operations team leads.

Attention to Detail

• Expertise in cable labelling and documentation for large environments.
• Ability to enforce standards and maintain quality under tight deadlines.
• Ability to travel across EMEA to lead and supervise the largest cabling programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in hyperscale or enterprise data centre environments.
• Knowledge of structured cabling standards (TIA/EIA) and best practices.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification is a plus.

Please note this role involves extensive travel throughout the Nordics, France, UK, Portugal & Saudi.