Vice President, Data Center Operations
Vice President, Data Center Operations
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Job Description
The Role
As ourVice President of Data Center Operations you will be responsible for building and leading all facets of data center operationsfrom physical infrastructure critical systems uptime and safety to building and scaling high-performing teams. You will play a leading role in shaping our operational strategy driving continuous improvement and ensuring world-class service delivery for our customers.
This is a unique opportunity to architect and scale operations at a company that is redefining the data center model from the ground up.
What You Will Do
- Safety security and availability are the most important things we do. Deliver near-perfect operations on these three dimensions for Fleet its employees and its customers.
- Lead the end-to-end operational management of all data center sites including facility management maintenance uptime monitoring and physical security.
- Design and implement scalable operational processes and SOPs aligned with the best industry practices and compliance standards (e.g. Uptime Institute ISO NIST SOC 2).
- Build and lead site operations teams including hiring training performance management and leadership development.
- Develop and track KPIs for operational efficiency capacity planning energy usage and uptime reliability. Operational efficiency to include year over year productivity and unit cost of labor improvements enabled by waste/rework reduction and automation business cases.
- Partner closely with Engineering Real Estate Construction and Customer Success teams to ensure smooth handoffs and integrated planning.
- Design build and scale Fleets data center operations teams responsible for the maintenance and repair of data center mechanical and electrical plant network deployment and cabling physical security operations and contract guard force local health safety and environmental operation and the associated spares warehouse and logistics across each of those operations.
- Implement a preventative and predictive maintenance strategy to maximize uptime and asset life.
- Own operational risk management disaster recovery and incident response planning.
- Create a culture of safety accountability and continuous improvement.
- Stay ahead of industry trends technologies and customer requirements influencing product and infrastructure strategy.
- Represent Fleet Data Centers in the community engaging with local agencies (permitting) community leaders community colleges and schools and political leaders as required.
- Represent Fleet Data Centers with customers during planning and operations. Own build delays and failures and recovery plans. Own and represent data center outages to customers including event management recovery repair and corrective actions. Clear-eyed calm and steadfast when dealing with catastrophic events and delivering unwelcome news in the wee hours of the morning.
What You Bring
- 12 yearsof experience in data center operations or mission-critical infrastructure management with8 yearsin a senior leadership role.
- Proven record of scaling operations in a high-growth or startup environment.
- Deep expertise in facility infrastructure systems (power cooling mechanical electrical).
- Strong working knowledge of regulatory environmental and safety requirements for data center operations.
- Excellent leadership and team-building skills with a hands-on roll-up-your-sleeves mindset.
- Experience with budget management vendor negotiations and facilities contracts.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate high-level goals into detailed operational plans.
- Ability to travel to data center sites as needed.
- Experience with greenfield data center builds or early-stage site launches.
- Background in energy efficiency sustainability or alternative power systems.
- Familiarity with colocation hyperscale and/or edge computing environments.
- Require operational paranoia unapologetically high standards humility grit curiosity trust-but-verify embrace failures and never make the same mistake twice.
Compensation & Benefits
Fleet Data Centers offers a competitive compensation package including equity full benefits and the opportunity to be part of a category-defining company from the ground up.
o Base $300000-$350000
o Bonus
o Carry eligible.
Location
Northern Virginia with consideration for applicants in Denver CO Austin TX or Seattle WA (Mercer Island)
Fleet Data Centers Employment
Fleet Data Center employees enjoy competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits including 100% employer-covered medical dental and vision insurance a 401K program standard paid holidays and unlimited PTO.
NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the organizations ongoing needs.
Fleet Data Centers is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment regardless of age race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or veteran status. If you need assistance applying for any of our open positions please contact us at
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Required Experience:
Chief
Employment Type
Full-Time
