Data Centre Operations Leader — Cloud Infra

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited is seeking a Data Centre Manager to lead large-scale data centre operations in Ireland. The role emphasises people leadership, operations excellence, and cross-functional collaboration with internal teams and external partners.

You will manage and develop engineers, ensure safety and performance, and drive continuous improvements across existing and new data centres in a fast-paced cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a team of at least 5 individuals for 3+ years.
• Experience in data centre engineering/operations and managing cross-functional teams.
• Experience with incident management, change management and capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multi-disciplinary engineering teams to high performance.
• Maintain and operate co-located and in-house data centres; lead new data centre builds.
• Drive process improvements and kaizen initiatives to optimize operations.
• Manage relationships with vendors, contractors and security partners.
• Ensure health and safety standards are met or exceeded across data centres.
• Create and monitor metrics to drive data-driven improvements.
• Oversee service methodologies including incident, problem, change, and capacity management.

Skills

People management

Data centre ops

Incident management

Metrics analysis

Vendor management

Process improvement

Health & Safety

Six Sigma/Lean

Hardware troubleshooting

Job description

Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited is seeking a Data Centre Manager to lead large-scale data centre operations in Ireland. The role emphasises people leadership, operations excellence, and cross-functional collaboration with internal teams and external partners.

You will manage and develop engineers, ensure safety and performance, and drive continuous improvements across existing and new data centres in a fast-paced cloud environment.