Vice President – Data Center Operations

🔥 27 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $239.9k - $299.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Armada is a company focused on enhancing connectivity and data management in remote environments through advanced technology solutions. With products such as Connect, Edge, and OpsAI, Armada enables seamless connectivity, robust data infrastructure, and real-world AI applications to address critical challenges in industries like oil and gas, public sector, manufacturing, mining, logistics, and telecommunications. The company leverages partnerships and technology like SpaceX/Starlink to bring digital solutions to over 40 countries. Armada's mission is to bridge the digital divide by offering innovative connectivity and compute solutions tailored for the most challenging environments.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the long-term vision, strategy, and operating model for data center operations • Develop and implement operational roadmaps supporting business growth, technology innovation, and capacity expansion • Partner with executive leadership to align operational priorities with organizational objectives • Drive organizational transformation to improve efficiency, reliability, scalability, and customer experience • Manage co-location facilities around the world • Provide executive oversight of 24x7 mission-critical data center operations • Establish and maintain operational standards, procedures, and performance metrics • Lead continuous improvement across operational processes, workflows, and service delivery • Ensure operational readiness for new customer deployments, expansions, and technology deployments • Own operational performance and service availability across all data center sites • Drive uptime, resiliency, maintenance effectiveness, and incident response improvements • Lead root cause analysis and corrective action programs for critical incidents and service disruptions • Develop risk mitigation, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategies • Partner with sales, engineering, construction, networking, and cloud infrastructure teams to meet customer capacity requirements • Oversee capacity planning, resource utilization, and lifecycle management of critical infrastructure assets • Ensure operational requirements are integrated into new product designs and deployments • Optimize operational efficiency while maintaining service reliability and customer commitments • Foster a safety-first culture and ensure regulatory, industry, security, and internal-policy compliance • Lead operational audits, risk assessments, and compliance reviews • Establish governance frameworks for operational risk management and performance monitoring • Develop and manage operating budgets and investment plans • Drive cost optimization while maintaining service quality and reliability • Monitor financial performance and identify productivity and resource optimization opportunities • Manage vendor relationships, service providers, and strategic partnerships • Build, lead, and develop a geographically distributed team of operational leaders and technical professionals • Attract, retain, and develop operational talent • Establish succession planning and leadership development programs • Create an inclusive, high-performance culture focused on innovation, collaboration, and results • Deliver success in availability, reliability, safety, compliance, efficiency, capacity, incident response, employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and strategic objectives

🎯 Requirements

• US Citizenship • 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in data center operations, critical facilities, cloud infrastructure, telecommunications, or related industries • 10+ years of executive or senior leadership experience managing large-scale operational organizations • Proven experience leading globally distributed teams and mission-critical environments • Demonstrated success managing large operational budgets and complex capital investment programs • Experience scaling infrastructure operations to support significant business growth • Excellent analytical, strategic planning, problem-solving, and negotiation skills • Exceptional cross functional leadership, communication, and collaboration abilities • Prior experience at a relevant AI infrastructure, high-growth infrastructure business, cloud infrastructure, defense technology, data centers, compute platforms, or adjacent sectors • Experience supporting hyperscale, cloud, colocation, or enterprise data center environments • Strong understanding of critical power, cooling systems, network infrastructure, and operational technologies • Experience leading large-scale operational transformations and continuous improvement initiatives • Knowledge of sustainability, energy management, and environmental compliance programs • Bachelor's degree required in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Operations Management, or a related field • Ability to comply with applicable nationality or citizenship requirements for sensitive information subject to export controls or other legal restrictions

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Medical, dental, and vision (subsidized cost) • Health savings accounts (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA), and dependent care FSAs (DCFSA) • Retirement plan options, including 401(k) and Roth 401(k) • Unlimited paid time off (PTO) • 14 paid company holidays per year • Subsidized benefits

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