Global Data Center Operations Lead

Anthropic Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking a Facility Operations Lead to define and manage end-to-end data center infrastructure operations. You will oversee mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and control systems, and partner with design, engineering, and capacity planning to optimize performance.

You will lead deployment schedules, set SLAs, manage third-party vendors, and drive scalable processes to improve time-to-market, uptime, and cost efficiency across a global fleet.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data center facility operations leadership.
• Experience overseeing mission-critical system portfolios.
• Strong deployment, commissioning, and maintenance process know-how.

Responsibilities

• Define the Facility Operations strategy including SLAs, incident reporting.
• Oversee third-party deployment and maintenance of facility infrastructure.
• Set expectations and standards to enable third-party success.
• Create monitoring standards to minimize risk and manage excursions.
• Develop approaches to improve time to market and equipment availability while reducing cost.
• Enable scale-out of operations through optimization of BOM, logistics, and physical processes.
• Manage partner relationships aligned with Anthropic goals.

Skills

Data center ops

Vendor management

Project management

SLA management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Data center monitoring

Job description

Anthropic Limited is seeking a Facility Operations Lead to define and manage end-to-end data center infrastructure operations. You will oversee mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and control systems, and partner with design, engineering, and capacity planning to optimize performance.

You will lead deployment schedules, set SLAs, manage third-party vendors, and drive scalable processes to improve time-to-market, uptime, and cost efficiency across a global fleet.