Senior Manager, Data Center Facilities Engineering

Ll Oefentherapie; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Ll Oefentherapie in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Center Facility Engineering to lead engineering, maintenance, and commissioning to ensure operational readiness of critical data center infrastructure.

You will drive high availability across electrical, mechanical, and life-safety systems, oversee change management, incident response, and post-incident reviews, and partner with design, construction, and colo partners to safely integrate new systems while maintaining

Responsibilities

• Oversee critical infrastructure maintenance and repairs across data center systems.
• Lead change management reviews for maintenance activities and ensure proper documentation.
• Direct incident response, root cause analyses, and corrective actions.
• Validate commissioning and design deliverables; oversee site assessments and builds.
• Develop and enforce operational policies, procedures, and training programs.
• Collaborate with colo partners and stakeholders to meet reliability and compliance.

Skills

Data Center Eng

Leadership

Incident Response

Stakeholder Management

Operational Excellence

Job description

The Senior Manager, Data Center Facility Engineering leads the engineering, maintenance, assists with commissioning to ensure operational readiness of critical data center infrastructure. This role is accountable for maintaining high availability across electrical, mechanical, and life-safety systems; ensuring SLA performance; and driving rapid, disciplined resolution of infrastructure faults and incidents.

The Senior Manager provides strategic engineering leadership for maintenance, repairs, diagnostics, system enhancements, and operational improvement initiatives. They partner closely with design, construction, commissioning, facility engineering, data center operations, colo partners, and other stakeholders to safely integrate new systems into live environments while protecting reliability, capacity, and compliance.

Key responsibilities include overseeing critical infrastructure maintenance and repairs; leading change management reviews for critical maintenance activities; and ensuring work plans, risk assessments, method-of-procedure documentation, rollback plans, stakeholder communications, and execution controls protect data center availability. The role leads incident response and post-incident reviews, directs root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action plans, validates commissioning and design deliverables, oversees site assessments and build activities, and establishes consistent operational policies and procedures.

The Senior Manager holds colo partners accountable to contractual requirements, leads multiple medium- to large-scale initiatives, removes operational blockers, aligns work to organizational priorities, and ensures compliance with Oracle safety standards, industry best practices, and business objectives.

As a people leader, the Senior Manager develops engineering capability through training, mentoring, drill programs, performance coaching, workforce planning, and talent development. The role fosters cross-functional collaboration, drives continuous improvement, and builds resilient, high-performing teams capable of supporting complex, global data center operations.