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Global Lead, Data Center and Infrastructure Operations

Job Location:

Durham County, NC - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 3 September 2026 (Yesterday)

Application Deadline: 1 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

Position Overview

Build and run the physical backbone that powers our science speed and scale. As our Global Lead for Data Center and Infrastructure Operations you will own end-to-end site and data center operations across our global networkkeeping platforms safe available and inspection-ready while enabling rapid growth. From standards and SLAs to racking/stacking cabling monitoring and migrations your leadership will turn complexity into reliability protect uptime and accelerate delivery for the teams manufacturing life-changing therapies.

Company Overview

The work we do at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies has never been more importantand we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations our capabilities and our teams and looking for passionate mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in peoples lives.

Join FUJIFILM Biotechnologies and help make the next vaccine cure or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion energy and drive - what we call Genki.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare electronics business innovation and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of giving our world more smiles. Visit: Description

Why this role matters

Uptime is mission-critical: Your standards rigor and response will keep manufacturing quality and enterprise systems availabledirectly impacting patients clients and revenue.
Scale with confidence: Youll harmonize global practices and toolchains so every new build expansion or tech refresh lands safely on time and within budget.
Govern what counts: From security and safety to vendor SLAs and change control your discipline will strengthen audit outcomes and our license to operate.

Data Center Operations (Global)
- Own day-to-day operations across all FLBG data centers server rooms and manufacturing sitesensuring safety security uptime and compliance.
- Establish and enforce global standards SOPs and best practices (DC layouts labeling cabling hot/cold aisle access controls).
- Define and monitor SLAs/OLAs for site operations; drive continuous improvement via KPIs and post-incident reviews.

Hardware Deployment Racking & Stacking
- Lead planning and execution of server storage network and appliance installs (rack elevation plans power/cooling checks structured cabling).
- Oversee decommissioning data sanitization and responsible disposal.

Cabling and Physical Layer
- Govern structured cabling standards (copper/fiber) patching labeling and pathway management.
- Coordinate with facilities for power distribution (PDUs/UPS) environmental monitoring and remediation.

Asset Lifecycle & Capacity
- Own asset inventory and CMDB accuracy and audit readiness.
- Forecast capacity (space power cooling ports IPAM) and plan expansions migrations and consolidations.

Monitoring & Reliability Management
- Implement and tune monitoring/observability; build actionable alerting and dashboards.
- Assist with major incident response root cause analysis and corrective actions; manage on-call rotations.

Change & Release Management
- Contribute to the change process; ensure methodical planning risk assessment and execution for production changes.
- Maintain configuration-as-code and standard builds where feasible; document runbooks and rollback plans.

Vendor & Partner Management
- Manage global vendor relationships (colocation hardware OEMs cabling contractors logistics).
- Negotiate SOWs/SLAs track performance and coordinate site access and audits.

Security Compliance & Safety
- Enforce physical security and access controls visitor procedures and safety protocols (e.g. LOTO ESD lifting).
- Ensure adherence to relevant standards/policies (e.g. ISO 27001 SOC 2 NIST-aligned controls as applicable).

Projects & Migrations
- Lead physical infrastructure projects (new builds expansions site consolidations technology refresh).
- Partner with Network Platform Security and Manufacturing/OT teams to support site requirements.

Financials & Reporting
- Manage budgets for equipment maintenance and services; optimize total cost of ownership.
- Provide regular performance capacity and risk reporting to leadership.

Minimum requirements

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Business Administration or related field with 6 years of experience as a Senior IT Engineer or related role.
5 years in data center/physical infrastructure operations.
3 years of team leadership experience.
Proven hands-on deployment experience: racking/stacking structured cabling power/cooling validation turn-ups.
Strong command of:
- Server storage and network hardware
- Structured cabling standards fiber types optics and testing
- Power systems (UPS PDUs) environmental monitoring hot/cold aisle containment
- Asset/CMDB accuracy
- Monitoring/observability alerting and dashboarding
- ITIL-based incident change and problem management
Familiarity with virtualization and platform stacks (e.g. VMware/Hyper-V) Linux/Windows fundamentals and hybrid/cloud integrations.
Ability to read rack elevations and power/cooling schematics and create method-of-procedure (MOP) and standard operating procedure (SOP) documents.
Excellent vendor management contract negotiation and stakeholder communication skills.
Strong analytical prioritization and program management capabilities in high-availability environments.

Preferred requirements

Masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Business Administration or related field with 4 years of experience as a Senior IT Engineer or related role.
Experience working within a Global IT team and associated processes.
Experience in Drug Substance Manufacturing (DSM) Drug Product (DP) and/or Finished Goods Manufacturing (FGM).
Certifications related to Agile Project Management Professional (PMI PMP) Lean or Six Sigma.

What youll bring to thrive

Deep expertise in data center operations hardware ecosystems and structured cabling.
Strong fluency in SLAs/OLAs ITIL processes CMDB and capacity management.
Hands-on mindset with global leadership presenceable to set standards coach teams and drive results across time zones.
Clear confident communicator who influences vendors partners and senior stakeholders with data and rigor.
Bias for safety reliability and continuous improvement.

Working conditions and physical requirements

May work in mechanical/production spaces that require hearing protection and enrollment in a hearing conservation program.
Visual acuity (20/20 corrected) including color differentiation; ability to discern audible cues.
Ability to ascend/descend ladders and to stand or sit for prolonged periods (up to 240 minutes).
Ability to perform repetitive motions of wrists/hands/fingers.
Ability to move objects up to 33 lbs; bend push/pull and reach 1860; use twisting motions.
Adherence to site EHS security and safety protocols.

Your impact from day one

Lift global uptime and resilience through disciplined operations and observabilityreducing incidents and unplanned downtime.
Land new builds and expansions on schedule with clean audits accurate CMDBs and standardized runbooks.
Optimize cost and performance across our global estate while strengthening compliance and safety.

Ready to steward the physical infrastructure that keeps a global biomanufacturing network running Apply now to become FLBGs Global Lead Data Center and Infrastructure Operations.

This is a global position that will support all our FUJIFILM Biotechnologies sites. This position can be based at any of our locations around the globe. Benefits and compensation will be governed by the location that you are based from and considered your home site.

As part of any recruitment process FUJIFILM Biotechnologies collects and processespersonal data relating to job applicants. Theorganizationis committed to beingtransparent about how it collects and usesthat data and to meeting its data protection obligations and may share this as part of the global recruitment process withhiring managers in Europe and the United States.

To all agencies: Please no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agenciesto any employee at FUJIFILM via-email the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM unless such search firms/employment agencieswere engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agencyengagement process is hired no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

EEO Information

Fujifilm is committedto providing equal opportunities in hiring promotion and advancement compensation benefits and training regardless of nationality age gender sexual orientation or gender identity race ethnicity religion political creed ideology national or social origin disability veteran status etc.

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