Leadership and Team Management

• Create and champion a culture of safety, security, availability, quality, and compliance across data center operations.
• Lead, coach, and support teams while demonstrating Microsoft’s culture, values, and leadership principles.
• Attract, develop, and retain diverse talent, creating an environment that supports individual growth, collaboration, and career development.
• Build an inclusive environment where differing perspectives are valued and team members are empowered to contribute.
• Establish clear priorities and accountability while enabling teams to successfully deliver against business and operational objectives.

Continuous Improvement and Innovation

• Champion continuous improvement and positive organizational change across areas of accountability.
• Create an environment that encourages collaboration, curiosity, learning, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to regional and global improvement programs and apply lessons learned and best practices to strengthen operational performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, tooling, quality, efficiency, reliability, and customer outcomes.

Site Integration and Operational Readiness

• Lead the integration and operational readiness of new data center sites as they transition from design and construction into operations.
• Partner across engineering, construction, commissioning, deployment, and operations teams to support successful site delivery.
• Help drive excellence in data center design standards, construction, commissioning, capacity utilization, and operational readiness.
• Ensure newly launched facilities transition effectively into the field operations portfolio.
• Identify integration risks and work across teams to establish appropriate mitigation and resolution plans.

Network and Edge Operations

• Support the delivery and readiness of core network infrastructure for new and existing data center locations.
• Provide leadership across network infrastructure installation, device deployment readiness, hardware troubleshooting, and improvements to associated processes and tools.
• Lead large-scale network and infrastructure transformation programs from planning through completion, with a focus on quality, schedule, cost, and operational readiness.
• Support Edge Data Center Operations to maintain strong standards of safety, security, governance, reliability, and infrastructure services across the region.

AI Infrastructure Deployment

• Lead teams responsible for the end-to-end deployment of AI infrastructure and equipment within Microsoft data centers.
• Establish effective governance across deployment programs, including risk and issue management, program communications, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting.
• Partner across technical, engineering, deployment, and operations organizations to support the successful delivery of AI infrastructure.
• Drive consistent execution while identifying and addressing risks that could impact deployment, operational readiness, safety, quality, or customer outcomes.

• Extensive leadership and management experience within production, mission-critical, data center, infrastructure, technology, or comparable operational environments.
• Significant experience managing complex vendor relationships, commercial agreements, contracts, or operating partnerships.
• Demonstrated experience leading, directly managing, and influencing diverse and multidisciplinary teams across complex organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, build alignment across stakeholders, and deliver meaningful business and operational outcomes.
• Proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing teams.
• Strong knowledge of physical IT infrastructure, which may include servers, storage, networking, capacity, data center racks/enclosures, or structured cabling.
• Knowledge of Critical Environment infrastructure and concepts, which may include electrical distribution, power systems, cooling systems, mechanical infrastructure, or comparable mission-critical technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively across technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Strong understanding of financial management, budgeting, cost management, and forecasting.
• Experience applying project or program management principles within complex technical or operational environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Telecommunications, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of IT Service Management and service operations principles, such as ITIL, OLA/SLA management, or continuous service improvement.
• Experience leading large-scale data center, cloud infrastructure, network, critical environment, or technology deployment programs.
• Experience supporting the transition of infrastructure from design, construction, or commissioning into operational environments.
• Experience delivering AI, high-performance computing, advanced network, or other large-scale technology infrastructure.
• Relevant project, program, operational excellence, or continuous improvement certifications, such as PMI/PMP, Six Sigma, Kaizen, ITIL, or comparable certifications.
• Experience working effectively across regional or global organizations with multiple technical and business stakeholders.

Background Check Requirements

Data Center Operations Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 106,300.00 - € 188,800.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/ireland-corporate-pay.html

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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