Data Center Site Lead

About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation cloud platform that operates at hyperscale across a rapidly expanding global footprint. OCI's mission is to provide customers with high-performance, highly available, and secure cloud infrastructure services. As part of our continued growth, we are seeking an experienced Data Center Site Lead to oversee day-to-day operations, infrastructure deployments, and colocation partner management within our mission-critical data center environments.

About the Role

The Data Center Site Lead is responsible for leading operational excellence across OCI data center facilities, ensuring high availability, safety, and performance of critical infrastructure. This role will oversee rack deployment activities, infrastructure commissioning, environmental monitoring, and operational governance with colocation providers. The successful candidate will bring hands-on experience from hyperscale cloud environments and possess a strong understanding of both mechanical and electrical systems supporting modern data centers, including liquid-cooled deployments. This position requires a highly collaborative leader capable of coordinating cross-functional teams, driving operational rigor, and ensuring adherence to service level agreements (SLAs) and operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Data center operations: Lead day-to-day operations of OCI data center facilities to ensure maximum uptime, reliability, and operational efficiency; serve as the primary site operational lead for mission-critical infrastructure and customer-impacting events; drive operational readiness and continuous improvement initiatives across the site.
• Infrastructure deployment & capacity expansion: Oversee server rack deployments, hardware installations, and capacity expansion projects; coordinate with engineering, network, logistics, and deployment teams to ensure timely execution; support implementation and operational management of liquid-cooled data halls.
• Commissioning & infrastructure readiness: Support commissioning and acceptance testing of electrical and mechanical infrastructure (UPS, switchgear, power distribution, generators, cooling systems, CRAH/CRAC, liquid cooling, BMS) and validate operational readiness prior to production handover.
• Environmental monitoring & compliance: Monitor and manage temperature, humidity, airflow, power utilization, cooling performance, and water leak detection; ensure compliance with OCI operational standards, safety requirements, and regulatory obligations; drive root cause analysis and corrective actions for environmental excursions or anomalies.
• Colocation provider management: Act as the primary operational interface with colocation providers; conduct operational governance meetings and service reviews; monitor and enforce contractual SLA adherence and service performance metrics; review maintenance activities, change management plans, and risk assessments with providers.
• Incident & change management: Lead operational bridge calls during incidents and critical events; coordinate cross-functional response teams to restore services and mitigate risks; ensure proper execution of change management processes and lead post-incident reviews and corrective action tracking.
• Team leadership & stakeholder engagement: Provide leadership and guidance to site operations personnel and supporting vendors; collaborate with global operations, engineering, network, security, and capacity planning teams; develop and maintain site operating procedures, runbooks, and operational documentation.

Qualifications / Required Technical Skills & Expertise

• Critical electrical infrastructure: Strong understanding of utility power feeds, substations and transformers, medium- and low-voltage switchgear, ATS/STS, UPS systems, PDUs, RPPs, busway systems, generators and fuel infrastructure; ability to assess power capacity and redundancy models (N, N+1, 2N) and operational risk.
• Mechanical & cooling systems: Deep knowledge of chillers, cooling towers, CRAH/CRAC units, direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems, CDU operations, heat rejection, water treatment and leak detection, and BMS; experience troubleshooting thermal performance and optimizing cooling efficiency in high-density environments.
• IT systems & hardware operations: Experience supporting hyperscale server deployment and lifecycle management; strong understanding of server hardware architecture, storage systems, RAID and resiliency concepts, firmware and hardware maintenance procedures, asset lifecycle management, and structured cabling practices.
• Industrial controls & monitoring systems: Experience with DCIM platforms, BMS and EPMS systems, environmental monitoring systems, and industrial communication protocols such as Modbus TCP/IP, Modbus RTU, SNMP, BACnet, and OPC; ability to interpret telemetry, alarms, trends, and infrastructure performance metrics.
• Vendor & colocation ecosystem management: Strong understanding of electrical infrastructure providers, HVAC and liquid cooling manufacturers, power systems vendors, and monitoring/controls platforms; experience managing provider relationships, SLAs, and operational governance.