Data Center Site Operations Lead
Job Description
This position involves overseeing and managing datacenter operations and infrastructure to ensure operational excellence, scalability, and compliance. The role requires a blend of technical expertise in datacenter systems, governance practices, and stakeholder management skills. Responsible for facilitating a smooth transition from deployment to production, the individual will focus on maintaining high availability and operational reliability for enterprise-scale datacenter environments.
Responsibilities
- Manage and monitor datacenter infrastructure, including power, cooling, rack utilization, and capacity management.
- Establish and track operational KPIs to evaluate datacenter readiness, performance, and reliability.
- Oversee infrastructure lifecycle management and reporting to ensure accurate capacity allocation.
- Maintain operational discipline by ensuring systems of record and infrastructure documentation are up to date.
- Lead operational acceptance and production handoff processes for new datacenter deployments.
- Validate operational readiness criteria in collaboration with engineering, build, and operations teams.
- Identify gaps in readiness, coordinate remediation efforts before systems go live in production.
- Serve as a liaison between infrastructure, operations, engineering, facilities, and reliability teams to ensure alignment.
- Develop and improve SOPs, operational standards, and reporting methodologies to enhance operational efficiency.
- Support compliance initiatives and audit readiness activities related to datacenter operations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Datacenter Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years supporting enterprise datacenter, cloud infrastructure, hyperscale, or high-density compute environments.
- Strong understanding of datacenter infrastructure including power systems, cooling, capacity management, and rack utilization.
- Experience coordinating across engineering, facilities, operations, and reliability teams.
- Proficiency in developing and managing operational KPIs, governance processes, and asset management systems.
- Working knowledge of DCIM platforms, infrastructure data management, and asset documentation.
- Experience supporting operational acceptance, production handoff, compliance, and audit processes.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, documentation, and presentation skills.
- Relevant education, training, certifications, or equivalent practical experience.
This position is based in office and requires employee to work on-site.
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