Data Center Operations Leader — Hybrid Cloud & DR

Florida Legislature; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Florida Legislature is seeking an experienced Data Center Manager to lead the OLITS Infrastructure and Operations division, ensuring stability, reliability, and efficiency of day-to-day infrastructure. You will supervise Customer Support, Systems Administration, Networking, and Data Center Facilities teams, acting as the trusted deputy to the CIO for infrastructure operations.

This role emphasizes operational discipline, lifecycle planning, risk awareness, and collaboration with executive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, or engineering with at least 6 years of information systems experience.
• At least 2 years in a managerial or supervisory role.
• Experience can substitute for education on a year-for-year basis up to ten years.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational oversight across infrastructure teams: Customer Support, Systems Administration, Networking, and Data Center Facilities.
• Coordinate day-to-day operations to ensure reliability, performance, and service continuity across all infrastructure services.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for operational incidents and cross-team issues.
• Participate in performance evaluations and align team priorities and workload distribution.
• Develop and enforce operational standards, runbooks, and change coordination processes.
• Coordinate maintenance windows, system changes, and infrastructure cutovers to minimize disruption.
• Own lifecycle planning activities: lifecycle schedules, multi-year reinvestment planning, and asset risk tracking.
• Assist in development of infrastructure lifecycle reinvestment budgets with leadership.
• Collaborate on infrastructure design decisions impacting data center and enterprise systems.
• Ensure readiness and accuracy of backup, DR, and COOP capabilities and documentation.
• Support cloud integration initiatives, including hybrid and Azure-based environments.
• Identify operational risks and implement mitigation strategies to improve resilience.
• Participate in CJIS and NIST framework alignment and remediation of audit findings.
• Provide regular operational status updates to leadership and keep abreast of emerging technologies.

Skills

Leadership

Decision making

Incident management

Cross-team coordination

Communication

Operational discipline

Risk assessment

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, MIS or Engineering

Job description

The Florida Legislature is seeking an experienced Data Center Manager to lead the OLITS Infrastructure and Operations division, ensuring stability, reliability, and efficiency of day-to-day infrastructure. You will supervise Customer Support, Systems Administration, Networking, and Data Center Facilities teams, acting as the trusted deputy to the CIO for infrastructure operations.

This role emphasizes operational discipline, lifecycle planning, risk awareness, and collaboration with executive