Director of Data Center Operations
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GigaData Centers, AI
Remote, USAFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience in facility or data center operations, with 5+ years managing operations teams across multiple sites
- Required Skills
- Budget management
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in facility or data center operations
- 5+ years managing operations teams across multiple sites
- Demonstrated experience owning uptime, maintenance, and staffing for mission-critical or large-scale industrial facilities
- Track record building or scaling an operations function, standard, or team across a growing portfolio
- Strong working knowledge of MEP and electrical systems relevant to facility operations (generators, UPS, switchgear, cooling infrastructure, BMS/controls)
- Experience managing operations budgets and vendor/service contracts across multiple simultaneous sites
- Strong track record presenting to and advising executive-level stakeholders on operational risk and performance
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day operational performance across Giga's live data center facilities, including uptime, maintenance execution, and incident response
- Build and enforce the operating standard applied across all facilities — staffing models, maintenance schedules, escalation procedures, and performance benchmarks
- Manage facility operations teams and site leads across multiple locations, ensuring consistent execution regardless of site
- Own vendor and service provider relationships tied to ongoing operations (maintenance contractors, equipment service providers, facility services), including contract performance and SLAs
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution for operational incidents, ensuring issues are closed out and standards updated to prevent recurrence
- Own the operations budget across the portfolio, making resourcing and staffing trade-off calls as facilities come online
- Report on operational health, risk, and performance to executive leadership across the full portfolio
- Partner with the commissioning and construction teams to ensure a clean handoff from newly commissioned facilities into steady-state operations
- Drive continuous improvement in operating procedures as the facility portfolio scales
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