Senior Manager, Data Center Operations

Oracle; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a senior leader to oversee Data Center Operations across multiple facilities in the United States. You will manage performance metrics, drive capacity planning, and coordinate with project and engineering teams to meet expansion timelines and world-class standards.

You will lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts while standardizing processes and maintaining a comprehensive knowledge base.

Qualifications

• Experience overseeing data center operations across multiple sites.
• Ability to translate operations metrics into business strategy.
• Proven track record in incident response and RCA.
• Experience implementing automation to prevent incidents.
• Strong collaboration with project and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversees Data Center Operations team across multiple data centers.
• Integrates operations metrics into broader business line strategy.
• Directs performance evaluations for multiple teams and integrates findings.
• Directs teams for escalated complex technical issues and crisis management.
• Leads new region builds and expansion activities, liaising with project and engineering teams.
• Guides installations, repairs, inventory, and logistics; enforces upgrade standards.

Skills

Data Center Operations

Performance Monitoring

Root Cause Analysis

Crisis Management

Automation

Cross-functional Collaboration

Job description

Job Description Oversees Data Center Operations across multiple data centers, managing and integrating team performance, operations metrics, and capacity analysis into the broader business line strategy. Directs multiple teams in supporting escalated technical issues, crisis management, and root cause analysis, while standardizing processes and maintaining an accurate knowledge base. Leads new region builds and expansion activities, acting as a senior liaison with project and engineering teams to manage timelines, capacity, and ensure adherence to world-class standards. Guides teams responsible for installations, repairs, inventory, and logistics, enforces standards for component replacements and upgrades, recommends significant purchases, and implements advanced maintenance strategies to optimize data center efficiency and stability.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Data Center Site Portfolio Management

• Oversees Data Center Operations team across multiple data centers.

Performance Monitoring and Analysis

• Oversees multiple teams, integrates operations metrics into broader business line strategy.
• Directs performance evaluations for multiple teams, integrates findings into broader business line strategy.
• Supervises analysis of physical, power, and cooling capacity for multiple teams, integrates findings into broader business line strategy.
• Leads Guides collaboration across functions to support continuous improvement efforts in alignment with industry best practices, and mentors team members.

Issue Management and Automation

• Directs multiple teams providing support for escalated complex technical issues.
• Proposes and implements advanced strategies for issue triage and leverages automation, scheduling, and monitoring tools to prevent and resolve potential problems.
• Identifies, documents, and standardizes issues, processes, and solutions, ensuring consistency and accuracy in the data center knowledge base, tailored to departmental requirements.
• Guides team members to implement strategy for incident or crisis management protocols in alignment with business continuity plans.
• Leads team members in performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) following crises or incidents, and updates documentation to capture process improvements.

Data Center Expansion Support

• Oversees the management of new region builds and expansion activities, both onsite and remotely.
• Acts as a senior liaison with project teams and data center engineering, ensuring comprehensive timelines and capacity needs are strategically managed for a broad array of expansion projects and site builds.
• Collaborates with and directs project teams to maintain world-class standards in all expansion projects and site builds.

Installation and Maintenance

• Leads multiple teams in installations, repairs, inventory management, and logistics tasks for data centers.
• Creates and enforces standards for component replacements and upgrades.
• Recommends and oversees significant purchases or upgrades for data centers.
• Directs high-level planning and coordination of rack deployments, installations, and network infrastructure upgrades/changes.
• Implements advanced maintenance strategies of the Data Center facilities with regard to efficiency and stability (e.g. containment, air flow & pressure, power trains).

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution

• Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable are monitored and met. Provides direction to teams on project work, setting priorities, and aligning with business needs. Guides teams on adjusting plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Drives cross-functional partnerships to align on expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams. Coaches team members to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success. Promotes inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.

Problem Solving

• Provides direction to multiple teams on addressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providing guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions. Reviews and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the team to identify potential solutions.

Continuous Learning

• Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into strategic planning. Leverages feedback to drive personal and team skill improvements. Identifies skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members to pursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise in new areas and coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization.

Continuous Improvement

• Drives team to collaborate on, develop, and implement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight. Guides team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages feedback for continued improvement.

Performance and Development

• Drives performance across teams by providing feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations. Discusses development goals with team members, shares opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensures individual goals are aligned with broader organizational goals. Develops and manages talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring promotion eligibility and/or orchestrating talent resources.

Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 - $264,100 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - M3

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