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# Senior Director, Data Center Operations

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Abilene, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $169,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Oracle (Applications), Hardware Infrastructure
- **Published:** August 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.businessworkforce.com/job.asp?id=3361186776&tx=TT4643TTI&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Proven experience operating at hyperscale and building systems that allow organizations to grow significantly without increasing headcount proportionally.
 * Demonstrated ability to design operating models that manage work, capacity, throughput, productivity, quality, and performance systematically rather than relying primarily on organizational hierarchy or additional staffing.
 * A strong systems and software mindset, with a track record of using automation, tooling, data, and process engineering to improve operational performance.
 * Deep experience building repeatable operating mechanisms and scalable processes across multiple sites or large distributed organizations.
 * Strong understanding of data center hardware operations, including hardware deployment, break/fix, compute infrastructure, GPU rack deployment, inventory, spare parts, and repair operations.
 * Technical depth sufficient to engage effectively with engineering and infrastructure teams and understand the operational implications of evolving compute and GPU architectures.
 * Experience managing infrastructure through multiple stages of its lifecycle, from deployment and introduction of new technology through steady-state operations, repair, replacement, and retirement.
 * Experience developing or scaling new product introduction (NPI) processes in a complex infrastructure or hardware environment.
 * Ability to distinguish between problems that require additional resources and problems that should be solved through better systems, processes, automation, or organizational design.
 * Bias for action and strong focus on measurable results.

Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment characterized by significant growth, technical complexity, and rapidly evolving business requirements.

## Description

* Own and lead large-scale data center operations across one of Oracle's North America 'Go Big' sites, spanning deployment and ongoing production operations.
 * Build the operating model, systems, processes, and organizational capabilities required to run an increasingly large and complex data center footprint.
 * Create a highly scalable operations environment where growth is enabled through better systems, automation, processes, tooling, and operating mechanisms - not simply through incremental headcount.
 * Establish operating mechanisms that improve throughput, productivity, quality, reliability, and speed across the organization.
 * Oversee technician organizations responsible for hardware deployment, break/fix activities, GPU rack installation, compute infrastructure connectivity, and customer deployment.
 * Develop and drive the NPI process strategy, ensuring new infrastructure products, technologies, and deployment models can be introduced consistently and at scale.
 * Establish world-class spare parts and inventory management capabilities that ensure required hardware is available where and when it is needed without creating unnecessary operational cost or complexity.
 * Apply a strong software and automation mindset to data center operations, identifying opportunities to remove manual work, automate repeatable processes, and use systems and data to drive better operational decisions.
 * Partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, supply chain, construction, deployment, capacity planning, and other cross-functional organizations to improve the end-to-end data center lifecycle.
 * Develop the leadership bench and organizational capabilities required to support Oracle's continued infrastructure growth.

What you'll bring

 * Significant experience leading large-scale, people-intensive operations in data centers, cloud infrastructure, fulfillment, logistics, manufacturing, or another highly complex operational environment.


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