Data Center Operations Manager

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day and we need you as a **Datacenter Operations Manager (DCOM).**

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a CO+I DC Operations Manager, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform. As a group, CO+I is focused on the personal and professional development for all employees and offers trainings and growth opportunities including Career Rotation Programs, Diversity & Inclusion trainings and events, and professional certifications.

With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.

Do you want to empower billions across the world? Come and join us in CO+I and be at the forefront of the action

**This position requires verification of Australian Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.**

**Sydney based**

**Responsibilities**:
**As a**Datacenter Operations Manager,**your success will be measured by**:
**People Management**:

- Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
- Live our culture, embody our values, and practice our leadership principles.
- Define team objectives and outcomes, enable success across boundaries, and help the team adapt and learn.
- Attract and retain great people, know everyone’s capabilities and aspirations, and invest in the growth of others.

**Data Center Operations**:

- Document and drive alignment on dependencies, supplier contracts, success metrics, resource readiness, operational, supportability, and manageability criteria.
- Review Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) and provide input to improve or increase efficiency across IT and Critical Environment (CE) services.
- Partner cross-functionally to support global and regional initiatives (e.g., environmental health and safety, risk assessments, certifications).
- Manages/supports alignment to budget of the Data Center and makes tradeoff decisions to adhere to sound fiscal practices.
- Support budget planning and forecasting demand costs, driving awareness among business leaders on implications of service management issues and negotiating to win resources of costs, risks, and team leads as required.
- Plan and work with business partners when executing their requirements to maintain adherence to datacenter availability, safety, and security.
- Follows and adheres to run book provided by Environment, Health, & Safety division. Reports immediately any safety or security issues or concerns.

**Service Delivery**:

- Accountable for end-to-end service compliance, quality, and client satisfaction for the agreed-upon service levels.
- Manage relationships with clients to ensure that all expectations are clarified and understood and deliver solutions that exceed client expectations while maintaining a strong customer focus.
- Share common and repeating cases with regional and global teams, while providing best practices to address and mitigate recurrence of issues and implement more efficient solutions for resolution.
- Manage resources appropriately to accommodate pilot programs and task force participation and make recommendations for additional funding where necessary.
- Understand future business demand within the datacenter to ensure staffing levels are appropriate.
- Ensure teams complete the required training and partner with Learning & Development organization to evolve training portfolio.
- Participate in every Sev 1 and Sev 2 Incident Bridge meeting and approve root cause analysis and postmortem reporting.
- Empowers teams to work collaboratively and creates visibility to help other teams succeed with regional/global management teams.

**Data Center Work Environment**
- Remove barriers that inhibit agility to enable team to shift priorities quickly without losing productivity.
- Maintain a broad perspective and work to incorporate diverse viewpoints while identifying and evaluating opportunities to create strategies that cross organizational boundaries and drive broad business goals.
- Establish a culture of safety, quality, and customer obsession while ensuring the team’s standards are consistent with overall service objectives.
- Create the type of conditions for successful collaboration, geared toward identifying and resolving organization-wide issues by bringing together creative and relevant solutions from diverse perspectives.
- Understand workforce capability and delegate work accordingly across team to effectively deliver resu