Head of Data Center Operations KSA (Saudi National), DCC Communities

Head of Data Center Operations KSA (Saudi National), DCC Communities

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on.

The Head of Data Center Operations KSA is responsible for one or more Amazon Web Services (AWS) Datacenter Clusters and PoP-scale deployments within an assigned region in mainland Europe. This role has managerial responsibility for safety, security, availability, scaling, and efficiency.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers.

The Regional Infrastructure Operations Manager is a key role in the management team that is operating and scaling the world’s largest cloud computing infrastructure. We encounter interesting, challenging and complex problems every day.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Hiring, managing, and developing the operations management team.
• Attainment of organizational performance goals and objectives relating to safety, security, availability, scaling, and efficiency.
• Planning and executing the Infrastructure Operations component of new AWS datacenter build outs and AWS datacenter expansions.
• Operation and maintenance of mechanical, electrical, and controls systems for Amazon datacenters.
• Vendor management of colocation datacenter services providers.
• Safety, security, and availability incident response, incident management, and incident resolution.
• Continuous improvement of operational processes, procedures, methods, and tools.

About the team: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.

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Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home.

Basic Qualifications

- Leading operational launch for a new datacenter or critical facility build out and start up. Ability to operate independently as a manager of a geographically distributed management team.

- Bachelor's or Masters degree in engineering, computer science or a related field, or relevant industry experience with management experience in datacenter operations, or critical environment facilities.

- Demonstrated track record in delivering complex projects with prior ownership of the operation of a mission-critical team and/or product.

- Proven ability to hire, develop and manage high-performing technical teams, managing other people managers.

- Must be a Saudi Arabian national

Preferred Qualifications

- Functional knowledge of datacenter mechanical, electrical, and controls systems.

- Technical project manager or member of a project team for a new datacenter build out and start up.

- Deep knowledge of information technology infrastructure domains.

- Expertise in one or more continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma.

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