Senior Data Center Operations Leader

Amazon; Wink (TX); On-site; USD 153,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (medical, dental, and

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Manager to lead a large data center operations organization, directing department heads and cross-location teams to ensure safety, security, availability, and efficiency. The role focuses on strategic leadership, while still rolling up sleeves for tactical needs as required.

Successful candidate will understand data center IT and facilities infrastructure and how they coexist, with a track record of managing complex builds and operations across global

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity.
• Experience managing large teams across multiple locations and languages, or experience as an acting operations manager.
• Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• 5+ years of analytical, quantitative, communication, and presentations experience.
• 10+ years of relevant work in a data center or other critical environment experience.

Responsibilities

• Hiring, managing, and developing the operations management team including facilities managers, chief engineering managers and engineering operations technicians.
• Attainment of organizational performance goals and objectives relating to safety, security, availability, scaling, and efficiency in support of our data center operations.
• Planning and executing the Infrastructure Operations component of new AWS data center build-outs, new colocation build-outs, AWS data center expansions, and colocation expansions, including the entire mechanical/electrical/plumbing infrastructure to facilitate the daily operation.
• Operation and maintenance of mechanical, electrical, and controls systems for Amazon data centers to include preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, and change management.
• Vendor management of colocation data center services providers, if required, to meet or exceed contracted performance SLA’s.
• Oversight of a preventative maintenance system and the adherence to schedules, evaluation and performance of our infrastructure supporting the data center operations.
• Experience in successful insourcing and/or outsourcing specific maintenance task balancing internal skillsets with frugality.
• Safety, security, and availability incident response, incident management, and incident resolution.
• Continuous improvement of operational processes, procedures, methods, and tools.

Skills

Data center leadership

Team management

Executive communication

Project coordination

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Manager to lead a large data center operations organization, directing department heads and cross-location teams to ensure safety, security, availability, and efficiency. The role focuses on strategic leadership, while still rolling up sleeves for tactical needs as required.

Successful candidate will understand data center IT and facilities infrastructure and how they coexist, with a track record of managing complex builds and operations across global