Data Center and Infrastructure Platform Manager

Pacific Life

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Hybrid

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Newport Beach, CACharlotte, NC
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3 days ago
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About Pacific Life

Pacific Life is a life insurance company offering a wide range of life insurance, annuity, and investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Industry: Life Insurance & Annuities

Pacific Life currently has 26 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Data Center and Infrastructure Platform Manager

The Data Center and Infrastructure Platform Manager joins the Cloud & Compute Platforms team to lead the operational management, reliability, and performance of enterprise infrastructure platforms. This role involves leading a professional team responsible for compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and data center operations within a complex, highly regulated environment. Key responsibilities include executing capacity planning, managing hardware lifecycles, overseeing vendor contracts, and ensuring high availability and security across global multi-site facilities. The successful candidate will utilize expertise in enterprise server infrastructure, networking fundamentals, and infrastructure architecture to drive cost optimization and stability. They will also manage incident response, root cause analysis, and preventative maintenance while collaborating with cloud, networking, and cybersecurity teams. The role addresses the critical business need for robust infrastructure scalability and continuity within a regulated financial services context.

What you'll do

  • Manage the operational performance, reliability, and security of enterprise data center and computing infrastructure.
  • Lead and develop a team of professionals responsible for compute, storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
  • Execute capacity planning initiatives to ensure infrastructure scalability and business continuity.
  • Develop and maintain operational standards, procedures, and governance practices for infrastructure platforms.
  • Manage incident response, root cause analysis, preventative maintenance, and problem management processes.
  • Oversee vendor performance, facility operations, hardware lifecycle management, and contract administration.
  • Drive initiatives focused on operational efficiency, infrastructure stability, and cost optimization.
  • Monitor emerging technologies to provide recommendations for future infrastructure modernization opportunities.

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.
  • A 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, server infrastructure, storage systems, backup/recovery, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
  • Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and enterprise infrastructure architecture.
  • Experience managing infrastructure reliability, operational risk, incident management, and service availability in regulated environments.
  • Relevant infrastructure, data center, cloud, or operational certifications (preferred); experience with hybrid cloud and facility modernization (preferred).

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