Data Centre Operations Leader: Resilience & Modernization

Northport (Malaysia) Bhd; Port Klang; On-site; MYR 9,500 - 16,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional certifications (VMware, M

Exposure to port/logistics/OT

Job summary

Northport (Malaysia) Bhd is seeking an experienced Head of Data Centre Operations to manage the data centre, ensure operational resilience, and lead infrastructure modernization. You will oversee servers, virtualization, storage, backup, and DR, while ensuring cybersecurity and governance requirements are met.

You will coordinate with application, network, OT and project teams, drive budgets, and lead a team with performance management and capability development.

Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline is required.
• 8+ years in data centre ops, infra mgmt or enterprise IT with 3–5 years in supervision.
• Experience with servers, virtualization, storage, backup, DR environments.
• Experienced in vendor mgmt, budgeting, governance and audit/compliance.
• Experience leading infra upgrades, modernization, and resilience initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage data centre operations, ensuring availability, resilience, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, governance, regulatory and operational requirements; coordinate with cross-functional teams.
• Develop and implement governance, standards, policies, and procedures; maintain docs and asset inventories.
• Lead vendor management, contracts, and service performance monitoring for infra services.
• Oversee incident management, root cause analysis, escalation, and DR recovery exercises.
• Drive infra enhancements, upgrades, maintenance, patching, and modernization initiatives.
• Prepare budgets, investment papers, and strategic infra initiatives.
• Lead and mentor staff, performance management and supervision.

Skills

Server management

Virtualization

Storage

Backup & DR

Infrastructure budgeting

Vendor management

Governance & compliance

24x7 operations

Education

Degree in Information Technology / Computer Science or related

Tools

VMware

Microsoft

Cisco

ITIL

CISSP

CDCP

Job description

Northport (Malaysia) Bhd is seeking an experienced Head of Data Centre Operations to manage the data centre, ensure operational resilience, and lead infrastructure modernization. You will oversee servers, virtualization, storage, backup, and DR, while ensuring cybersecurity and governance requirements are met.

You will coordinate with application, network, OT and project teams, drive budgets, and lead a team with performance management and capability development.