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This is a new engineering and specialist team serving both Site Operations (compute) and Facility Operations (power and cooling). It owns incident response and the engineering behind the response, holds central control authority over what compute is impacted or drained, drives day-to-day sustainment of live datahalls, and leads the deployment engineering that brings new data halls online. The team will also build the automation behind our NOC Bot, the automated monitoring layer that replaces a traditional technician NOC. 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