Global Data Center Performance & Automation Director

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a leadership role overseeing very large and complex data center sites across multiple regions. The position defines group-wide performance monitoring strategies, aligns KPIs to drive uptime, efficiency, and customer satisfaction, and partners with executives on long-term targets.

It also leads expansion initiatives, automation adoption, governance standards, and audits for security and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Data Center Site Portfolio Management: Responsibility for very large or complex sites or responsibility for multiple regions/countries.
• Performance Monitoring and Analysis: Defines the enterprise strategy for performance monitoring for all data centers in group, aligning KPIs and organizational objectives to drive efficiency, uptime, and customer satisfaction at a global scale.
• Oversees the evaluation of physical, power, cooling, and security capacity, ensuring future-readiness and sustained operational excellence.
• Partners with executive leadership to set and achieve multi-year operational and financial targets for the group.
• Issue Management and Automation: Drives the adoption of automation and predictive analytics for regional/country technical issues, ensuring high availability and rapid remediation of service-impacting events.
• Establishes and governs standards for escalation, crisis management, root cause analysis, and continuous process improvement.
• Champions a culture of knowledge sharing, ensuring best practices and lessons learned are disseminated regionally.
• Leads post-incident review panels and process reform to ensure resilience and regulatory compliance.
• Data Center Expansion Support: Leads expansion initiatives including new region builds, site launches, and transformation programs; ensures delivery on time, budget, and to quality standards.
• Serves as the primary senior executive liaison with cross-regional portfolio leaders, engineering, and project management teams.
• Establishes partnerships (internal and external) to maximize resources, develop talent pipelines, and promote Oracle's reputation for world-class data center operations.
• Installation and Maintenance: Oversees and integrates all facets of installation, maintenance, logistics, and inventory management across several regionally dispersed or complex data center portfolios.
• Defines and enforces enterprise standards, setting expectations for efficiency, security, and scalability in procurement and lifecycle management of all hardware assets.
• Approves and manages multi-million dollar investments in upgrades, capacity expansion, and critical infrastructure improvements.
• Directs operational audits and risk assessments to optimize deployment and maintenance strategies.
• Core Responsibilities - Planning & Execution: Provides strategic oversight on the management and execution of large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure success.
• Collaboration & Partnership: Sets a strategic direction for collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
• Problem Solving: Develops and implements strategies for specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts across the organization, serving as an escalation point for highly complex operational and/or technical issues.
• Continuous Learning: Champions continuous learning to maintain cutting-edge skills and influence organizational best practices.

Job description

Oracle is seeking a leadership role overseeing very large and complex data center sites across multiple regions. The position defines group-wide performance monitoring strategies, aligns KPIs to drive uptime, efficiency, and customer satisfaction, and partners with executives on long-term targets.

It also leads expansion initiatives, automation adoption, governance standards, and audits for security and resilience.