Head of Infrastructure Operations
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Description
You will lead regional data-centre operations, establish operational strategy and standards, manage multi-site teams, oversee physical infrastructure and vendors, lead incident response, ensure compliance, and report on operational health. You will travel regularly to data centres and coordinate capacity, deployment, and service-delivery work.
Responsibilities
- Own regional data-centre operations strategy and execution
- Establish operational standards, processes, and roadmaps
- Drive cost, downtime, and operational-maturity improvements
- Build, mentor, and lead multi-site operations teams
- Oversee data-centre operational procedures and ITSM ticket handling
- Support facility performance across power, cooling, security, and environmental controls
- Maintain AI infrastructure asset inventory and physical-security controls
- Establish SLOs and SLIs for availability, performance, and incident response
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, remediation, and prevention
- Ensure safety, environmental, and compliance requirements
- Manage vendors, contractors, procurement, SLAs, and contract compliance
- Coordinate infrastructure deployment, capacity planning, and site commissioning
- Implement monitoring and alerting and report operational metrics
- Travel regularly to data centres
Requirements
- 10+ years of data-centre operations, infrastructure management, or facilities-management experience
- Regional or multi-site operations leadership experience
- Team-management experience across multiple locations
- Experience scaling operations and maintaining reliability standards
- Data-centre infrastructure knowledge including power, cooling, networking, and security
- ISO 22237 and ISO 27001 Annex A.11 familiarity
- Monitoring, environmental controls, and infrastructure automation knowledge
- GPU/HPC infrastructure knowledge
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, and ISO 22301 familiarity
- Stakeholder management and senior-leadership communication skills
- Regular travel to data centres
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan participation
