Operations Resilience Director

Compass Datacenters•Dallas, TX

7h•Onsite

About The Position

The Operations Resilience Director at Compass owns the strategic direction and continuous improvement of both incident management and business continuity planning — assessing current-state process, tooling, and governance holistically across Operations, and driving a roadmap that scales as the business grows. This role manages a 24x7x365 team out of two locations, balancing hands-on operational leadership with the ability to influence process and stakeholders beyond direct reporting lines, and manages the full lifecycle of operational incidents and continuity events from detection through resolution and root cause analysis. This role drives continuity and rapid response between our on-site Operations teams, Strategic Partners and Customers - and maintains KPIs and performance tracking to enable effectiveness of the workflows and tools. A key focus is also deploying AI and automation to increase efficiency and eliminate errors. Success in this role requires a balance of strong leadership, critical thinking, and a forward-looking approach to technology — with the ability to perform in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment.

Requirements

Strong leadership
Critical thinking
Forward-looking approach to technology
Ability to perform in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment
Experience managing a 24x7x365 team
Experience with incident management
Experience with business continuity planning
Familiarity with industry frameworks (e.g., ITIL, NIST)
Experience with risk assessments
Experience with Business Impact Analysis
Experience with crisis communications planning
Ability to influence stakeholders outside direct reporting authority

Nice To Haves

Deploying AI and automation to increase efficiency and eliminate errors

Responsibilities

Oversee 24x7x365 team operations across two locations
Responsible for maintaining 24x7x365 staff levels, and ensuring 100% coverage
Provide operational and tactical leadership
Responsible for ensuring all staff are properly trained
Prioritize and manage deliverables for the team to execute
Motivate, coach, and lead the team to achieve department goals
Drive cross-functional collaboration to ensure program success and a positive customer experience
Steward incident process and activities for high impacting incidents, across the portfolio
Own the incident severity classification framework (Sev 1-3) and corresponding escalation and notification matrix, including bridge command responsibilities for high-impact events
Manage customer relationship and ensure the appropriate level of transparency is consistently provided to process stakeholders (internal or external)
Capture Customer feedback for improvement opportunities and ensure notification / SLA requirements are followed
Monitor activities to make sure deliverables are being met and processes are being followed
Enable the collection, tracking, and recording of data for incident response & reporting requirements
Conduct annual reviews & updates Program/policy documents, and subsequent training content
Maintain KPIs to identify opportunities to eliminate errors through drills & tabletop exercises
Responsible for creating and maintaining the Ops ticketing standards & guidelines
Support evidence collection and inquiries for Operational audits
Assess incident management process, tooling, and governance holistically across Operations; identify structural gaps versus industry frameworks (e.g., ITIL, NIST)
Build and maintain a strategic roadmap to senior leadership, including any business case for investment
Influence adoption of improved process and governance with stakeholders and teams outside direct reporting authority
Coordinate & contribute to risk assessments (threat and vulnerability analysis) to inform Business Impact Analysis and continuity strategy
Steward and maintain the Business Continuity Planning (BCP) policy for Operations, including Business Impact Analysis with defined Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and periodic plan updates
Shepherd recurring BCP tabletop exercises in coordination with Incident Mgmt drills, ensuring incident response and continuity planning are tested
Contribute to the crisis communications plan for incidents and continuity events, defining notification protocols and messaging for executives, customers, and (where applicable) external stakeholders
Map critical vendor and supply chain dependencies (power, cooling, connectivity, and other third parties) and incorporate their continuity risk into the Operations Resilience strategy
Embodies Compass’ four Core Convictions in daily leadership — Humility In, Pride Out, Actions & Words Are One, Continuous Improvement of People, Processes and Systems, and We Ask Why