Senior Director, Data Center Operations

Senior Director, Data Center Operations

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) powers Oracle’s global cloud services through highly available, large-scale, enterprise-grade data center environments. The Data Center Infrastructure Operations / Facilities team plays a critical role in sustaining OCI’s performance, security, and operational resilience by ensuring infrastructure systems operate reliably at scale.

You will join a technically rigorous organization with a culture grounded in operational excellence, disciplined processes, and continuous improvement, where infrastructure reliability, safety, and execution quality are foundational to delivering cloud services worldwide.

Role Overview

As Senior Director, Data Center Operations, you own day-to-day execution, uptime, safety, and site performance across OCI data centers. This role is the ultimate accountable owner for operational outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multi-site operations organizations, including engineering, maintenance, security, and vendors.
• Establish SLAs, monitor compliance, and lead response to major operational incidents.
• Drive a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Own resource planning, emergency response readiness, and capacity execution.
• Develop next-generation site and regional operations leaders.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Extensive leadership experience running high-uptime, multi-site operational organizations.
• Proven ability to manage crises, scale teams, and maintain execution discipline.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong people leadership under pressure.
• Clear, decisive communicator with executive presence.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

• Global impact at scale: Contribute directly to how mission-critical OCI data centers operate across regions and continents, influencing infrastructure reliability, security, sustainability, and long-term capacity growth.
• Technically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineers, automation specialists, and compliance teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure, where disciplined execution and technical depth matter.
• Culture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process rigor, clear accountability, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust.
• Long-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, role-based technical training, and development opportunities designed for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure and facilities operations.

***This is an onsite role in Dona Ana County, New Mexico.***

Qualifications

Career Level - M5

About Oracle

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Key skills/competency

• Data Center Operations
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Operational Excellence
• Site Performance
• Leadership
• SLA Management
• Emergency Response
• Capacity Planning
• Team Development
• Security Operations