Senior Manager, Data Center Site Operations

This involves managing the physical sites, the teams that operate these sites, and managing the colocation partners we may use.

This role is a manager of multidiciplined Individual contributors at scale within a Cloud Data Center space. uou should be an experienced manager of diverse teams, able to navigate local customs, laws & employment directives, strong people management ability and a deep technical grounding in the physical aspects of IT Service Delivery.

Typical functions for day to day in the role are:

• Manage the day-to-day operations of all Data Center sites under your area, in a 24/7 mission critical environment.

• Responsible for ensuring timely delivery of services/tasks to meet project milestones.

• Working with project managers to guide their actions and provide ‘on-the-ground’ advice / support.

• Ensuring the quality benchmark is upheld for new sites / regions / deployments and being the gate keeper of this.

• Driving the delivery of improvements and providing detailed, concrete feedback in project reviews / lesson learned activities.

• Interacting across functional areas and teams (e.g., Engineering, Build, Site Selection, Business Operations etc.).

• Reacting to and managing any incidents that occur, driving resolution and After-Action analysis.

• Capacity expansions at all scales (rack additions, block additions, whitespace growth, new sites).

• Drive appropriate recruitment in your area at a fast pace, ensuring the employment of high-quality team members with a passion for excellence.

• Driving a culture of continual improvement and learning throughout everything you do.

• Career Level

• M3

We’re looking for an experienced leader, with strong people management experience, business acumen and a well-rounded IT technical abilities (at scale) to lead the teams responsible for building and supporting our cloud data centers in the United States. The successful candidate will have all 3 of these attributes in equal measure and be hard-working at a high level.

• Providing leadership, direction, and operational excellence within a subset of sites.
• Working at a global level with peers to achieve consistency and avoid site variability at all costs.
• Establishing and development of teams to execute to requirements.
• Working with distributed teams and contributing to the success of his/her team and other related teams.
• Coaching and mentoring managers and individual contributors across the organization starting within your site
• Growing the team by recruiting and hiring top talent in diverse marketplaces.
• Delivering expansion projects on-time with high quality.
• Collaborating and working effectively with best-in-class architects, engineers, product managers, QA and Documentation teams.