Data Center and Infrastructure Platform Manager

What you'll do

• Lead and develop a team of professionals responsible for compute, storage, backup, and disaster recovery operations.
• Oversee the operational management of global data centers to ensure high availability, security, and resiliency.
• Execute capacity planning initiatives to ensure infrastructure scalability, performance, and business continuity.
• Develop and maintain operational standards, procedures, and governance practices for all infrastructure platforms.
• Manage incident response, root cause analysis, preventative maintenance, and problem management processes.
• Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and business continuity initiatives across critical business services.
• Oversee vendor performance, facility operations, hardware lifecycle management, and support contract administration.
• Drive operational efficiency, infrastructure stability, and cost optimization initiatives across the enterprise.

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of experience leading enterprise data center operations, infrastructure operations, or related technology functions.
• Proven people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, and team development.
• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting global, multi-site data center operations in a large enterprise environment.
• Deep knowledge of data center operations, enterprise server infrastructure, storage systems, backup/recovery, and capacity planning.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, enterprise infrastructure architecture, and disaster recovery.
• Experience managing infrastructure reliability, operational risk, incident management, and service availability.
• Experience operating within regulated or compliance-focused environments.
• Experience overseeing vendor relationships, infrastructure contracts, and hardware lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with automation, monitoring, and management tools for optimizing data center performance.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise data center operations in organizations with demanding uptime and resiliency requirements (preferred).
• Experience managing geographically dispersed infrastructure operations teams (preferred).
• Success leading data center expansions, migrations, consolidations, or facility modernization initiatives (preferred).
• Strong understanding of data center power, cooling, redundancy, and operational resilience best practices (preferred).
• Experience supporting large-scale disaster recovery programs and infrastructure recovery testing (preferred).
• Relevant infrastructure, data center, cloud, or operational certifications (preferred).
• Exposure to hybrid cloud environments and infrastructure modernization efforts (preferred).