Data Center Site Operations Lead

GDH; Hillsboro (OR); On-site; USD 80,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

GDH is seeking an experienced Datacenter Operations Leader to oversee and optimize enterprise-scale datacenter infrastructure for reliability and compliance.

You will drive transitions from deployment to production, manage capacity and power/cooling, and coordinate with engineering, facilities, and reliability teams to ensure high availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical discipline.
• 7+ years in enterprise datacenter/cloud/hyperscale environments.
• Strong understanding of power, cooling, capacity, and rack utilization.
• Experience coordinating across engineering, facilities, operations, and reliability teams.
• Proficiency in governance processes and asset documentation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor datacenter infrastructure including power, cooling, rack utilization, and capacity management.
• Establish and track operational KPIs to evaluate readiness, performance, and reliability.
• Oversee infrastructure lifecycle management and reporting for accurate capacity allocation.
• Maintain up-to-date systems of record and infrastructure documentation.
• Lead operational acceptance and production handoff for new deployments.
• Validate readiness criteria with engineering, build, and operations teams.
• Identify gaps in readiness and coordinate remediation before production.
• Serve as liaison across teams to ensure alignment.
• Develop and improve SOPs, standards, and reporting methodologies.
• Support compliance and audit readiness activities.

Skills

Datacenter ops

Stakeholder mgmt

Governance

KPI development

Documentation

Education

Bachelors in Electrical/Mechanical/Computer Engineering or related

Tools

DCIM platforms

Asset documentation

Asset management systems

Job description

Role Summary

This position involves overseeing and managing datacenter operations and infrastructure to ensure operational excellence, scalability, and compliance. The role requires a blend of technical expertise in datacenter systems, governance practices, and stakeholder management skills. Responsible for facilitating a smooth transition from deployment to production, the individual will focus on maintaining high availability and operational reliability for enterprise-scale datacenter environments.

Role Summary

This position involves overseeing and managing datacenter operations and infrastructure to ensure operational excellence, scalability, and compliance. The role requires a blend of technical expertise in datacenter systems, governance practices, and stakeholder management skills. Responsible for facilitating a smooth transition from deployment to production, the individual will focus on maintaining high availability and operational reliability for enterprise-scale datacenter environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor datacenter infrastructure, including power, cooling, rack utilization, and capacity management.
• Establish and track operational KPIs to evaluate datacenter readiness, performance, and reliability.
• Oversee infrastructure lifecycle management and reporting to ensure accurate capacity allocation.
• Maintain operational discipline by ensuring systems of record and infrastructure documentation are up to date.
• Lead operational acceptance and production handoff processes for new datacenter deployments.
• Validate operational readiness criteria in collaboration with engineering, build, and operations teams.
• Identify gaps in readiness, coordinate remediation efforts before systems go live in production.
• Serve as a liaison between infrastructure, operations, engineering, facilities, and reliability teams to ensure alignment.
• Develop and improve SOPs, operational standards, and reporting methodologies to enhance operational efficiency.
• Support compliance initiatives and audit readiness activities related to datacenter operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Datacenter Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years supporting enterprise datacenter, cloud infrastructure, hyperscale, or high-density compute environments.
• Strong understanding of datacenter infrastructure including power systems, cooling, capacity management, and rack utilization.
• Experience coordinating across engineering, facilities, operations, and reliability teams.
• Proficiency in developing and managing operational KPIs, governance processes, and asset management systems.
• Working knowledge of DCIM platforms, infrastructure data management, and asset documentation.
• Experience supporting operational acceptance, production handoff, compliance, and audit processes.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, documentation, and presentation skills.
• Relevant education, training, certifications, or equivalent practical experience.

Publishing Pay Range: $58.00 – $60.75 hourly

This position is based in office and requires employee to work on-site.