Critical Environment Operations Manager

Data Center Operations Clarifies and refines strategic vision to communicate to their teams and drives alignment of operational strategies with a security-first culture. Brings suggestions including security enhancement to local management team and/or global leaders or partners. Reviews Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance indicators (KPIs) and provides input to improve or make KPIs and OKRs more efficient/effective. Understands key business drivers and where Data Center Operations (DCOPS) feeds into business success. Understands connections between different organizations and their related initiatives. Suggests or recommends risk-based decisions or escalates based on what is best for business and strategy, and without all the data. Frames DCOPs challenges in context of business expectations and drives business context. May change course and strategically delegates tasks. Influences guidelines that to ensure they are consistent with contractual service agreements and security standards. Holds team or organization accountable for abiding by all service level agreements (SLAs). Evaluates and implements policy updates to enhance security posture across operations. Holds team or organization accountable for investigating root cause of policy faults, degradation, and security incidents and suggests improvement plans. Holds team accountable for policy plan improvements with focus on maturity and lowering costs. Drives alignment on dependencies, supplier contracts, success metrics, resource readiness, operational, supportability, and manageability criteria. Ensures audits, global and regional initiatives, and third-party guidelines are upheld. Drives accountability with landlord to adhere to MSFT service-level agreement. Advocates, follows, and adheres to processes and policy(ies) provided by security and safety governing partners. Reports immediately any safety or security issues or concerns. Ensures Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes are followed when required. Makes recommendations for improvements to safety and security processes or procedures. Empowers and ensures team fosters and exhibits a culture of safety. Ensures no unauthorized or unescorted personnel access secured production environments, ensuring alignment with security practices and standards. Oversees and drives completion and validation of physical access list audits of personnel accessing secured production environments and related systems. Defines, specifies, and maintains physical space groupings for physical access across varying production environments. Manages non-compliance as needed, in collaboration with key stakeholders. Conducts regular reviews with health, safety, and security business partners. Evaluates regular security risk assessments of data center operations and prioritizes and aligns the design, build, and delivery of technology, tools, data, and processes to meet high security standards. Defines and communicates security Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across teams and resolves complex action items. Demonstrates conscientiousness on cost, adheres to budget requirements, and regularly employs sound fiscal strategies to reduce costs or improve fiscal efficiency from best practices. Seeks input from team members or subject matter discipline experts as required to meet timely and accurate targets for budget allocation. Monitors employee's Purchase Orders (POs) and oversees team and organization After-the-Fact (ATFs) if present. Supports annual budget planning and forecasting exercises. Forecasts demand costs, drives awareness among business leaders on the business implications of service management issues, and negotiates with business leaders to win resources to ensure that the long-term value of the service is maintained. Works with the cost model and reporting system to enable the forecasting, tracking, reporting of costs, security and operational risks, and dependencies for a significant portion of the country or region. Articulates level of importance on priorities needed to maintain availability expectations. Adjusts plans based on assigned financial spend for the year. Plans and works with business partners on executing their requirements to maintain adherence to data center availability, security, and safety across their geographic scope. Approves or implements identified opportunities for cost reduction and efficiency. Assigns tasks and resources in alignment with other teams in the organization. Validates technical dependency and gap analysis to verify readiness for IT projects and ensures that technical dependencies are managed. Ensures that resources and team capabilities are consistent with expected service standards. Leads their team and champions broader efforts across the organization to achieve service requirements and service level agreements (SLAs)/operational level agreements (OLAs) for multiple services. Influences business partners to adopt solutions that optimize cost and business need. Understands and influences tooling mechanisms to manage resources and prioritizes the need to ensure critical roles within teams are appropriately staffed and developed. Ensures priorities are assigned based on business impact, manages accountabilities within and between teams, and makes appropriate tradeoffs. Focuses on team morale and recognizes team wins. Participates in change advisory board (CAB) meetings. Provides strategic guidance to teams on assessing the security implications of planned changes and drives implementation of mitigation strategies to ensure any identified risks are addressed before implementation. Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Develops, grows, and leverages relationships with clients and suppliers to ensure that all expectations and operational, safety, and security requirements are clarified, understood, documented, and met. Communicates with clients and partners. Works with regional support teams to implement changes (e.g., regional or global initiatives like process improvement, safety, compliance, security, engineering, tooling). Makes connections and builds network for teams as needed. Sets example and empowers teams to work collaboratively. Proactively identifies potential cross function engagement issues and mitigates accordingly. Works with business partners to establish a collaborative process to enable understanding of business partners' areas of expertise. Effectively engages across cross functional teams and makes connections and builds network for teams as needed. Empowers teams to work collaboratively and creates visibility to help other teams succeed with regional/global management team. Manages multiple complex technologies projects or programs across multiple disciplines to meet service delivery Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Manages resources appropriately to accommodate pilot programs and task force participation. Supports and removes obstacles or escalates to appropriate stakeholders within partner teams. Champions a security-oriented perspective in escalation procedures to safeguard infrastructure integrity. Sets criteria and requirements for service execution tooling standards and identifies and drives the adoption of a standard toolsets across multiple service teams. Promotes the adoption of security-enhancing tools and practices. Ensures information, awareness, and changes resulting from escalations are communicated throughout their team or organization as appropriate. Supports engineering organization(s) and partners as needed, or provides input to mature tooling in meeting field operations requirements. Drives adoption of approved engineering released tools and systems with their team(s) to support day-to-day operational processes and procedures and protect against current and emerging threats while providing feedback and perspectives regarding tooling performance and quality. Proactively identifies potential issues to prevent escalations, but, provides guidance in support of correct escalation of issues to appropriate owner(s) when necessary. Understands the service management perspective(s) to ensure that business leaders correctly factor the implications and risks of their decisions to effectively delivering the service. Oversees audits or risk assessments for potential security vulnerabilities or threats and provides direction on remediation plans to address findings. Provides communication and resolution to issues related to programs, projects, and incidents to drive Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) and/or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) compliance. Presents incident Post-Mortem outcomes and/or approves Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Post-Mortem reporting, including security incidents. Approves and partners with business management and finance partners to secure budget needed for identified service delivery improvements. Triages and prioritizes complex problem management scenarios while documenting and driving mitigation strategies. Leads their team to design multi-discipline service and technology solutions that reduce the risk of deployment and environmental issues prior to production release. Drives and delivers RCAs where appropriate, across multiple functions and disciplines. Drives an organization and team culture of continual improvement to timeliness and quality response(s) to data center incidents. Manages volume, responds promptly to clients, constructively manages stress and confrontation, and approaches situations assuming positive intent. Handles uncertainties in a calm and confident manner. Forms viable working relationships with teams, partners, lessors, and stakeholders for mutually beneficial outcomes. Guides resolution of service incidents and escalates, as appropriate, to achieve applicable Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) or supporting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with minimal disruption to the client and business. Partners with others within or beyond local teams/campus/metro as needed, while directing efforts of their team to troubleshoot and resolve issues. Shares common and repeating cases or observations of service issues with regional/global support teams. Shares best practices to address and mitigate issues and reduce recurrence. Participates in, or ensures appropriate subject matter expertise participation in, applicable Incident Bridges for their workstream(s) and/or location(s). Champions prioritizing security in daily operations and encourages teams to share best practices for implementing secure approaches to products, processes, and tools in alignment with security initiatives. Ensures that all issues are documented, tracked, discussed, and resolved with clients, suppliers, and appropriate stakeholders with consistent and complete communication. Understands and anticipates the client's business needs and maintains a dedicated client focus to improve quality and delivery of the service and security-first approach, and provide insights to improve client return on investment. Identifies trends or identifies gaps with current processes and procedures for reviewing schedules, coordinating, managing expectations, and developing alternatives when defining client solutions and develop strategies to address. Brings together diverse perspectives, technologies, and organizations as needed to proactively manage or remove risks for service delivery approach(es) and align clients to risk vs. impact decisions/tradeoffs. Drives accountability for team and organizational awareness of potential client impact of other events and issues occurring across the service (e.g. lockdowns; change management), and drives communication of potential impact to adjust plans accordingly. Communicates strategy adaptations, plans, and solutions, regarding insights about end-customer, market, and business environment changes impacting service delivery to their team(s) or organization. Supports and assists with development of end-customer presentations or briefings regarding data center incidents impacting client and end-customer services or experience. Provides strategic guidance on adapting strategies to align with evolving security needs across teams. Ensures and empowers their team to complete required security, corporate, and/or mandated training and shares security best practices. Contributes to industry standards and provides thought leadership regarding new industry standards where applicable for their teams and organizations. High School Qualification or equivalent AND 6+ years experience of mission-critical service management (e.g., providing IT services, manufacturing, warehouse, retail, military, or managing physical operations in an IT and/or critical environment infrastructure) OR equivalent experience These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Bachelor's or Technical College Degree in Computer Science, Math, Telecommunications, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Management or related field AND 12+ years experience in critical environment infrastructures (e.g., UPS, Generator, AHU), or working in physical IT infrastructures (e.g., Servers, SANs, Networking, Capacity, DC Rack/Enclosures, structured cabling) OR High School Qualification or equivalent AND 14+ years experience in critical environment infrastructures (e.g., UPS, Generator, AHU), or working in physical IT infrastructures (e.g., Servers, SANs, Networking, Capacity, DC Rack/Enclosures, structured cabling) OR equivalent experience. 3+ years of people management experience. Experience working on large scale Critical Environment projects

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