Data Center Operations Lead, Sovereign Operations

Requirements:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience working in mission critical facility maintenance and operations.
• Experience forecasting technical requirements using data.
• Experience with reliability centered maintenance and Engineering.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, a Developed Vetting (DV) UK security clearance.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience managing vendor relationships, including performance management.
• Experience of sovereign UK security controls and requirements.
• Experience communicating effectively with all levels of the organization, including senior executives.
• Understanding of power and HVAC requirements for high-availability data centers.
• Understanding of start up/commissioning processes.

What you'll be doing:

• Act as the data center site lead for multiple colocation provider data centers and UK SovOps team’s Operations Centres.
• Own the relationship with data centre providers, actively managing colocation providers against KPIs.
• Manage the schedule of DCOps work across the colocation providers, scheduling changes, operational risk assessments and communicating with internal stakeholders.
• Support any new site selection process through operational and technical knowledge.
• Lead colocation data center fit out and IT equipment commissioning, ensuring Google standards are met

Perks and benefits:

• Must be a British citizen to meet compliance and security clearance requirements.
• Office location can either be a satellite site in Wiltshire or Hampshire, with occasional travel to London.