Global workforce solutions and staffing agency Kelly has launched Kelly Digital Infrastructure, a new specialty division designed to address the severe talent shortages bottlenecking data center deployment.
The new unit unifies Kelly Telecom, NextGen | GTA, and Motion Telco into a single specialized brand. By combining deep domain expertise across telecom, AI, and data centers with Kelly’s recruiting scale, the brand provides end-to-end workforce strategy and technical execution across every stage of the infrastructure lifecycle.
As AI and cloud expansion accelerate facility growth, human capital constraints have become the leading barrier to rapid development. The Kelly 2026 Data Center Salary Guide reveals that mission-critical positions now command salary premiums up to 74% above national benchmarks, triggering intense talent competition in both primary and emerging markets.
Kelly Digital Infrastructure helps operators overcome these headwinds across four core operational phases:
- Design & Planning: Network design, site development, permitting, and infrastructure strategy.
- Build & Deployment: OSP/fiber, wireless/RAN deployment, equipment installation, and commissioning.
- Operations & Optimization: Field operations, predictive fault detection, AIOps, and maintenance.
- Workforce Consulting: Strategic upskilling and transition programs to train workers from adjacent technical fields.
“Kelly Digital Infrastructure is a natural evolution of the business we’ve built to help clients navigate increasingly complex workforce needs while connecting talent to opportunity across this rapidly growing industry,” said Mark Walker, President, Engineering & Digital Infrastructure at Kelly. “AI is reshaping digital infrastructure and the specialized workforce required to build and operate it. We are unifying our expertise and talent networks across telecom, data centers, AI, and automation to meet those needs.”
Through flexible Statement of Work (SOW) delivery models and targeted workforce accelerator programs, Kelly Digital Infrastructure enables operators and developers to rapidly deploy critical project management and engineering talent without construction delays.
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