Data Center Operations Leader

Amazon; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Data Centre Manager to lead and develop high-performance engineering teams, oversee both co-located and in-house Data Centres, and drive operations excellence across incident, capacity, and change processes.

The role emphasizes vendor management, safety compliance, metrics-driven improvements, and close collaboration with internal teams to deliver scalable cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience with hardware troubleshooting and repair
• Experience in data center engineering or operations
• Experience in people management and team development
• Experience managing complex and fast-moving issues
• Experience analyzing metrics to drive business improvements
• Six Sigma tools experience
• Lean techniques experience

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop teams of engineers, providing both technical and leadership expertise and ensuring highest levels of performance.
• Maintaining existing co-located and in-house Data Centres
• Helping build and bring online new Data Centres
• Constantly improving all processes and procedures and driving positive changes
• Assisting & managing relationships with external vendors & contractors
• Liaising with internal teams & management groups
• Ensuring compliance with local Health & Safety standards in Data Centres
• Creating and maintaining metrics to drive improvements and guide decisions
• Assisting in implementing service methodologies including incident, problem, change, and capacity management

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Data Centre Manager to lead and develop high-performance engineering teams, oversee both co-located and in-house Data Centres, and drive operations excellence across incident, capacity, and change processes.

The role emphasizes vendor management, safety compliance, metrics-driven improvements, and close collaboration with internal teams to deliver scalable cloud infrastructure.