Data Center Operations Lead

1160 Kyndryl Colombia SAS; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking a Data Center Management professional to oversee safe, reliable data center operations and coordinate across facilities, network, storage, and platform teams. Your role focuses on uptime, audit readiness, and delivering operational outcomes aligned to customer requirements.

You will lead incident response, maintenance planning, and vendor management in a 24x7 environment, ensuring safety, security, and regulatory compliance across facilities.

Qualifications

• Experience managing data center or critical facilities operations.
• Hands-on experience with power, cooling, fire suppression, and environmental monitoring systems.
• Experience managing incidents, change activities, and maintenance windows in a 24x7 environment.
• Ability to coordinate cross functional teams during operational events and planned activities.
• Experience working with external vendors and service providers for facilities operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily data center operations including power, cooling, space, and environmental controls
• Oversee preventive maintenance and operational procedures to maintain availability and resilience
• Coordinate facility activities with infrastructure, network, storage, and platform teams
• Lead incident response for facilities related events and drive root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Ensure compliance with safety, security, and regulatory requirements across the data center
• Manage vendor performance for facilities services and maintenance activities
• Plan and track capacity for power, cooling, and floor space based on demand forecasts
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and audit evidence
• Support customer engagements by translating availability and performance requirements into operational actions

Skills

Data center ops

Power & cooling

Incident management

Vendor management

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Kyndryl is seeking a Data Center Management professional to oversee safe, reliable data center operations and coordinate across facilities, network, storage, and platform teams. Your role focuses on uptime, audit readiness, and delivering operational outcomes aligned to customer requirements.

You will lead incident response, maintenance planning, and vendor management in a 24x7 environment, ensuring safety, security, and regulatory compliance across facilities.