VP, Data Center Operations
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Vice President of Data Center Operations overseeing a national portfolio of 40+ data centers and 300+ employees. Responsible for operations, security, safety, and leadership within a growing digital infrastructure platform.
Responsibilities:
- Lead all day-to-day operations across the company’s data center portfolio, with accountability for execution, reliability, workforce performance, and site level discipline.
- Provide leadership to regional operations leaders and site teams, establishing clear expectations, strong operating rhythms, and visible accountability for performance.
- Drive consistency across facilities while preserving appropriate agility to respond to local operational realities, customer needs, and evolving business priorities.
- Build a performance culture rooted in safety, ownership, responsiveness, preparation, and continuous improvement.
- Drive rigorous maintenance, data quality, and operational adoption of DCIM, BMS, building automation, and controls platforms to strengthen visibility, standardize execution, and improve portfolio performance.
- Own the operational performance and lifecycle review of mission critical facility infrastructure, including electrical, mechanical, plumbing, cooling, life safety, critical power, generation, UPS, switchgear, and supporting systems required to sustain uptime and customer confidence.
- Provide executive oversight for Environmental Health and Safety programs across the operations organization.
- Partner closely with teams responsible for construction, commissioning, operational enablement, controls, analytics, and process improvement to ensure clean handoffs, strong readiness, and effective execution across the portfolio.
Requirements:
- Ten or more years of progressive leadership experience in mission critical operations, industrial operations, or similarly complex environments where uptime, safety, and technical discipline are paramount.
- Significant experience leading multi site operations teams with accountability for performance across multiple geographies.
- Deep expertise in data center or similarly critical mechanical, electrical, and plumbing intensive environments.
- Demonstrated success improving operational consistency, workforce performance, reliability, and execution quality at scale.
- Experience leading through incidents, elevated operational risk, and periods of organizational growth or transformation.
- Strong command of safety, compliance, physical security, and risk management principles in operational settings.
- Excellent executive communication skills, strong judgment, and the ability to influence across functions and levels.
- Direct experience within colocation, enterprise, wholesale, multi-tenant data center, or other mission critical infrastructure environments (preferred).
- Experience partnering with controls, building automation, DCIM, or operational intelligence teams in support of portfolio performance (preferred).
- Experience supporting new market expansion, major facility commissioning, or large-scale infrastructure growth (preferred).
Benefits:
- Medical, Telehealth, Dental and Vision
- 401(k)
- Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Life and AD&D
- Short Term and Long-Term disability
- Flex Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Leave of Absence
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness Program
- Rewards and Recognition Program
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