Data Center Operations Manager
STN Inc•Odessa, TX
•Hybrid
About The Position
The Data Center Operations Manager owns physical infrastructure at GPU One (GPUaaS) sites including power, cooling, security, and smart-hands services. The role is the operational owner of colocation and owned-site facility relationships and the first line of defense against physical-layer incidents.
Requirements
- 6+ years in data center operations or facilities management
- Strong understanding of power distribution, cooling architecture, and DC physical infrastructure
- Experience managing colocation relationships and SLAs
- CDCP, CDCS, or equivalent data center certification
- Demonstrated vendor and contractor management experience
Nice To Haves
- Modular data center (MDC) operational experience
- Experience operating high-density GPU or HPC sites (30 kW+ per rack)
- Liquid cooling experience (rear-door, direct-to-chip, or immersion)
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day operations of colocation and owned data center sites
- Coordinate with colocation partners on power, cooling, and facility issues
- Manage smart-hands and remote-hands services and SLAs with site providers
- Oversee physical security including access controls, badge management, and audit logs
- Maintain capacity planning models for power, cooling, and rack space
- Coordinate with Field Engineering on installation logistics and site readiness
- Manage site-level vendors including electrical, HVAC, security, and janitorial
- Maintain DCIM, environmental monitoring, and physical asset inventory accuracy
- Support audits (SOC 2, customer site visits, insurance inspections)
- Participate in on-call rotation for site emergencies and outages
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
