Senior Director, Data Center Operations

Responsible for very large or complex data center sites across multiple regions

or countries and defines the group wide strategy for performance monitoring,

aligning KPIs and objectives to drive global efficiency, uptime, and customer

satisfaction. Oversees capacity evaluations for physical, power, cooling, and

security needs to ensure readiness and operational excellence, and partners with

executive leadership on long-term operational and financial targets. Drives the

adoption of automation and predictive analytics, establish crisis management and

process improvement standards, and promote a culture of knowledge sharing and

compliance. Leads major expansion initiatives, serves as the senior executive

liaison across regions, develops partnerships, and manages the full lifecycle of

hardware assets—overseeing installations, maintenance, and procurement,

approving large investments, and directing audits to optimize efficiency,

security, and scalability.

This role owns how facilities operations is run at scale. That includes

operational strategy, execution governance, leadership capability, maintenance

and service operating models, incident readiness, process discipline, and

performance accountability across the portfolio. The Senior Director ensures

OCI’s facilities organization can execute consistently across site operations,

service delivery, chief engineering, reliability support, building automation,

centralized operations support, and related site-support functions.

This is not primarily a design-engineering role, nor is it a single-site

operations role. It is the senior operational leadership position responsible

for translating strategy into repeatable execution across the facilities

organization. The attached source similarly emphasizes portfolio reliability,

operational standards, executive escalation, leadership of leaders, maintenance

strategy, vendor governance, and partnership with engineering and construction

functions. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

* Provide executive leadership for the Data Center Facilities Operations

organization across multiple campuses, regions, or a large and complex site

portfolio. 

* Own the portfolio operating model for facilities operations, including

organizational structure, operating rhythms, execution governance, escalation

paths, leadership accountability, and service consistency. 

* Lead and develop a leadership bench of Directors, Senior Managers, Facilities

Operations Managers, Service Managers, and other senior operations leaders

across the portfolio. 

* Establish and govern enterprise standards for operational execution,

including MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, maintenance work control, outage coordination,

site readiness, and response discipline during abnormal operating

conditions. 

* Own portfolio-level performance across safety, uptime support, maintenance

execution, incident response, service quality, vendor effectiveness, and

operational maturity. 

* Serve as the highest operational escalation point for critical infrastructure

events, ensuring rapid decision-making, strong cross-functional coordination,

executive communication, and disciplined corrective action follow-through. 

* Define, monitor, and act on portfolio-wide KPIs related to reliability

support, maintenance effectiveness, backlog health, readiness, staffing

capability, incident trends, and operational execution quality. 

* Oversee the execution model for facilities service delivery, self-perform

maintenance strategy, and field operational support in alignment with

business growth and risk tolerance. 

* Ensure the facilities organization is scaled appropriately for portfolio

growth, including workforce planning, succession planning, role clarity, and

leadership capability development. 

* Partner with Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Reliability, Security,

Compliance, and Business Operations leaders to ensure operability,

maintainability, and operational supportability are built into new sites,

expansions, retrofits, and turnover processes. 

* Drive systematic identification and mitigation of operational risks,

including infrastructure vulnerabilities, readiness gaps, training needs,

process weaknesses, and vendor-related concerns. 

* Provide governance and strategic oversight of critical vendor relationships,

maintenance providers, and technical service partners to ensure safe,

reliable, and high-quality outcomes. 

* Champion a culture of safety, accountability, process rigor, and continuous

improvement across the facilities operations organization. 

* Provide executive-level reporting and recommendations to the Vice President

and senior leadership team on portfolio health, major risks, organizational

readiness, investment needs, and strategic operational priorities. 

Ideal Candidate Profile

* 12+ years of experience in mission-critical operations, data centers, power

generation, utilities, industrial operations, or similarly uptime-critical

environments. 

* 7+ years of experience leading leaders across multiple sites, large campuses,

or broad critical infrastructure operations portfolios. 

* Deep expertise in operational leadership of electrical, mechanical, controls,

and supporting site infrastructure in high-availability environments. 

* Demonstrated success building operating models, governance structures, and

performance accountability across a large-scale operations organization. 

* Experience leading through Directors and senior managers in complex,

fast-growing, and operationally intensive environments. 

* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Facilities, or related field

preferred; advanced degree is a plus but not required. 

Skills and Competencies

* Executive-level operational leadership in mission-critical environments. 

* Strong judgment and composure during high-severity incidents and

portfolio-level risk events. 

* Ability to lead large, layered organizations through standards, process

discipline, accountability, and culture. 

* Strong strategic thinking with the ability to connect local execution quality

to long-term portfolio scalability and resilience. 

* Excellent executive communication, leadership presence, and stakeholder

alignment capability. 

* Strong balance of operational rigor, technical credibility, talent

development, and business judgment. 

* Ability to influence cross-functional partners across engineering,

construction, compliance, finance, and business operations.

Preferred Skills / Certifications

* Professional Engineering (PE) license or equivalent technical credential is a

plus. 

* Experience with regulatory compliance and oversight frameworks relevant to

critical infrastructure environments, such as OSHA, EPA, or related

requirements. 

* Strong familiarity with CMMS, BMS, EPMS, SCADA, DCIM, service management, and

operational reporting platforms. 

* Experience operating in hyperscale data center environments or large-scale

utility / industrial infrastructure portfolios is strongly preferred. 

* Experience shaping portfolio-level maintenance, service delivery, or site

readiness strategies is strongly preferred. 

Physical Demands / Work Environment

This is a mission-critical leadership role supporting 24/7 operations where

continuous uptime is essential. Regular attendance, schedule flexibility,

travel, and executive availability during major incidents are required. To

perform these duties, you must be able to move between office, campus, and

active operational environments; walk sites; climb stairs; and safely engage in

field visibility activities, with or without reasonable accommodation.

QUALIFICATIONS

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to

comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health

mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the

stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $355,400 per annum. May be eligible

for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days

from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

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US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which

involves the collection and processing of their biometric information.

Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized

assessment.

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