Oracle Corporation

Lead Principal Data Center Operator

Oracle Corporation$114K — $234K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of management experience in data center operations
  • Strong understanding of performance monitoring and incident management
  • Experience with automation tools and advanced technical troubleshooting
  • Proven track record in overseeing large-scale infrastructure projects
  • Excellent collaboration and mentoring skills across diverse teams

Responsibilities

  • Manage operations across multiple data center sites to ensure performance alignment with business goals
  • Drive strategic performance analysis and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Direct complex issue resolution and the establishment of best practices
  • Oversee data center expansion projects and collaborate with engineering teams
  • Set strategy for installations and large-scale upgrades with executive oversight

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Flexible vacation and paid time off policies
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Job Description

>>This position will be full-time on-site at Oracle's Saline, MI data center. Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Oracle's relocation policies.<<

Manages operations of multiple data center sites, driving the strategic direction for performance and health analysis, mentoring teams, and ensuring alignment with business objectives and security goals. Responsibilities include directing capacity evaluations, resolving complex technical issues, implementing advanced automation in issue triage, and establishing best practices and a continually evolving knowledge base. The role also sets strategy for incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement while collaborating across functions. Additionally, it oversees regional expansion projects, acts as a key liaison with project and engineering teams, and leads strategic planning for installations, repairs, inventory, logistics, and large-scale infrastructure upgrades, providing executive-level recommendations and mentorship throughout.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Data Center Site Portfolio Management:

-Multiple Data Center sites.

Performance Monitoring and Analysis:
-Drives the strategic direction of performance analysis for health and performance of the data centers, mentoring team members, and aligns findings with business line objectives.
-Guides strategic evaluation, mentors team members, and aligns proposals with security and performance goals.
-Directs analysis of physical, power, and cooling capacity, and ensures proactive issue resolution.
-Drives collaboration across functions to set the strategic direction of continuous improvement efforts in alignment with industry best practices, and mentors team members.
Issue Management and Automation:
-Directs support for escalated complex technical issues, establishing best practices across the business line.
-Transforms issue triage and mitigation strategies through pioneering automation, scheduling, and monitoring tools.
-Identifies, documents, and certifies issues, processes, and solutions, ensuring the data center knowledge base is authoritative and continually evolving.
-Informs strategy for incident or crisis management protocols in alignment with business continuity plans.
-Oversees Root Cause Analysis (RCA) following crises or incidents, and updates documentation to capture process improvements.

Data Center Expansion Support:
-Oversees and strategizes the direction of all new region builds and expansion activities, both onsite and remotely.
-Acts as the key liaison with project teams and data center engineering, ensuring strategic timelines are met and overarching capacity needs are effectively managed for all expansion projects and site builds.
-Collaborates with project teams on the most critical aspects of expansion projects and site builds to achieve and maintain world-class standards.

Installation and Maintenance:
-Sets strategy for installations, repairs, inventory management, and logistics tasks, providing oversight and mentorship to senior teams.
-Oversees and directs large-scale component replacements and upgrades.
-Provides executive-level recommendations for data centers purchases or upgrades and oversees comprehensive implementation.
-Leads high-level strategic planning for rack deployments, installations, and network physical infrastructure upgrades/changes.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements. Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.

Collaboration & Partnership:
-Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives. Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success. Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving:
-Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues. Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.

Continuous Learning:
-Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions). Maintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.
Continuous Improvement:
-Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designs and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.
Performance and Development:
-Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy. Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.

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: $114,600 to $234,600 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.
Career Level - IC5

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