Data Center Site Operations Lead

Role Summary
This role involves overseeing datacenter operations, ensuring infrastructure health, capacity management, and operational readiness. The individual will coordinate across engineering, facilities, and operations teams to maintain high standards of data center performance and compliance. The position requires a strategic approach to monitoring and managing datacenter environments to support smooth transitions into production.

Responsibilities

• Maintain operational visibility across datacenter infrastructure, including power, cooling, capacity, rack utilization, monitoring, and space management.
• Define, establish, and report on operational KPIs to measure datacenter health, readiness, utilization, and performance.
• Track and manage infrastructure capacity allocations throughout asset lifecycles, ensuring accurate data tracking.
• Lead operational acceptance and production transition activities for newly deployed datacenter facilities, ensuring readiness criteria are met.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to validate operational procedures, documentation, and capacity controls prior to go-live.
• Manage escalations, dependencies, and issue resolution activities across cross-functional teams.
• Communicate infrastructure risks, constraints, and operational status to stakeholders and leadership.
• Support governance initiatives, maintain accuracy in asset management systems, and develop operational procedures for compliance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on operational reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Develop and implement standards, monitoring practices, and operational models supporting global datacenter growth.

Qualifications

• Relevant education, training, certifications, or equivalent practical experience in electrical, mechanical, computer, or datacenter engineering.
• 7+ years supporting enterprise datacenters, cloud infrastructure, hyperscale, or high-density compute environments.
• Strong understanding of datacenter power, cooling, capacity planning, and infrastructure monitoring.
• Experience with datacenter asset management systems, DCIM platforms, and infrastructure data management.
• Proven ability to develop and track operational KPIs and governance programs.
• Knowledge of operational acceptance processes, compliance standards, and audit readiness activities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting technical information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, facilities, infrastructure, SRE, and operations teams.
• Demonstrated success in managing risks, removing blockers, and delivering results across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience supporting large-scale or rapidly growing infrastructure organizations.

Publishing Pay Range: $58.00 – $60.75 hourly

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