Datacenter Site Operations Lead

Job Title - Datacenter Site Operations Lead
Duration: 12-Month Contract
Location/Office Address: Hillsboro, OR
Onsite/Remote and Number of Days: Onsite
Interview: Phone or video call; then in-person

Position Overview:

Our client is seeking a Datacenter Site Operations Lead to support large-scale datacenter and cloud infrastructure operations. The role focuses on operational readiness, infrastructure visibility, capacity management, governance, compliance, and production handoffs to ensure reliable and efficient operations.

What You'll Do:

• Monitor datacenter infrastructure, including power, cooling, rack utilization, capacity, and overall operational health.

• Establish and track operational KPIs to measure datacenter readiness, performance, and reliability.

• Manage capacity allocations, infrastructure lifecycle tracking, reporting, and data accuracy across systems of record.

• Lead operational acceptance and production handoffs for newly deployed datacenter environments, validating readiness criteria with engineering, build, and operations teams.

• Ensure monitoring, documentation, processes, ownership models, and capacity controls are established before production handoff.

• Identify readiness gaps and coordinate remediation before systems enter production.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, engineering, platform, facilities, operations, and reliability teams to manage dependencies, escalations, and issue resolution.

• Communicate operational health, risks, and constraints to technical teams and leadership, translating complex issues into actionable recommendations.

• Audit governance processes and maintain accurate, complete, and consistent infrastructure asset and operational data.

• Develop and improve SOPs, operational standards, readiness processes, reporting methodologies, and compliance controls.

• Support compliance initiatives and infrastructure audit readiness.

• Drive improvements in monitoring, reliability, scalability, and datacenter processes through corrective actions and lessons learned.

• Develop repeatable operational frameworks and standards to support future deployments and global growth.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer, or Datacenter Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.

• 7+ years of experience supporting enterprise datacenter, cloud infrastructure, hyperscale environments, or high-density compute operations.

• Strong understanding of datacenter power systems, cooling, capacity management, rack and space utilization, infrastructure monitoring, and operational readiness.

• Experience coordinating across engineering, facilities, operations, reliability, and infrastructure teams.

• Experience managing operational KPIs, governance processes, and systems of record.

• Working knowledge of DCIM platforms, datacenter asset management, and infrastructure data management.

• Experience supporting operational acceptance, production handoffs, compliance, and audit readiness.

• Excellent communication, documentation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting hyperscale or large-scale cloud infrastructure environments.

• Strong understanding of datacenter operational governance and production operations models.

• Experience identifying operational risks and driving resolutions across multiple teams.

• Experience developing scalable operational processes and standards.

• Ability to influence technical and business stakeholders without direct authority.

• Strong systems-thinking approach focused on operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Start Date: As soon as possible