NOC HC / Senior Operations Management Center Engineer - MI

Data Center Operations Manager

Manages operations of multiple data center sites, driving the strategic direction for performance and health analysis, mentoring teams, and ensuring alignment with business objectives and security goals. Responsibilities include directing capacity evaluations, resolving complex technical issues, implementing advanced automation in issue triage, and establishing best practices and a continually evolving knowledge base. The role also sets strategy for incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement while collaborating across functions. Additionally, it oversees regional expansion projects, acts as a key liaison with project and engineering teams, and leads strategic planning for installations, repairs, inventory, logistics, and large-scale infrastructure upgrades, providing executive-level recommendations and mentorship throughout.

Key Responsibilities Data Center Site Portfolio Management:

-Multiple Data Center sites.

Performance Monitoring and Analysis:

-Drives the strategic direction of performance analysis for health and performance of the data centers, mentoring team members, and aligns findings with business line objectives.

-Guides strategic evaluation, mentors team members, and aligns proposals with security and performance goals.

-Directs analysis of physical, power, and cooling capacity, and ensures proactive issue resolution.

-Drives collaboration across functions to set the strategic direction of continuous improvement efforts in alignment with industry best practices, and mentors team members.

Issue Management and Automation:

-Directs support for escalated complex technical issues, establishing best practices across the business line.

-Transforms issue triage and mitigation strategies through pioneering automation, scheduling, and monitoring tools.

-Identifies, documents, and certifies issues, processes, and solutions, ensuring the data center knowledge base is authoritative and continually evolving.

-Informs strategy for incident or crisis management protocols in alignment with business continuity plans.

-Oversees Root Cause Analysis (RCA) following crises or incidents, and updates documentation to capture process improvements.

Data Center Expansion Support:

-Oversees and strategizes the direction of all new region builds and expansion activities, both onsite and remotely.

-Acts as the key liaison with project teams and data center engineering, ensuring strategic timelines are met and overarching capacity needs are effectively managed for all expansion projects and site builds.

-Collaborates with project teams on the most critical aspects of expansion projects and site builds to achieve and maintain world-class standards.

Installation and Maintenance:

-Sets strategy for installations, repairs, inventory management, and logistics tasks, providing oversight and mentorship to senior teams.

-Oversees and directs large-scale component replacements and upgrades.

-Provides executive-level recommendations for data centers purchases or upgrades and oversees comprehensive implementation.

-Leads high-level strategic planning for rack deployments, installations, and network physical infrastructure upgrades/changes.

Core Responsibilities Planning & Execution:

-Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements. Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.

Collaboration & Partnership:

-Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives. Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success. Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving:

-Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues. Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.

Continuous Learning:

-Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions). Maintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.

Continuous Improvement:

-Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designs and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.

Performance and Development:

-Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy. Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.

Required Skills:

• Data Center Operations
• Incident Resolution
• Performance Analysis

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.