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Data Center Manager

Amazon· Operations, IT, & Support Engineering
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Boardman, OR$78.4k - $137.3kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Manage a team that maintains cloud infrastructure for global data center operations. Leads strategies, mentoring, project sponsorship, and technical solutions across data center operations, with on-call responsibilities and cross-location team management.

Responsibilities

  • Prioritize and assign trouble tickets to data center technicians and operators
  • Manage the performance of a diverse team(s) of data center operation professionals with varying skills across different locations
  • Developing Career Paths for the employees and making updates in our internal tools
  • Recruit and train data technicians to ensure appropriate staffing levels
  • Ensure effective and efficient management of day-to-day data center operations including queue management, 7/24 shift arrangement and hardware logistics
  • Fast learn or act as the subject matter expert across all aspects in data center operations
  • Ensure all operational KPIs and metrics are being measured and met
  • Inspire and guide improvement in team process, technology innovation and automation
  • Manage Large Scale Events (outages) and act as the call leader
  • Manage and improve the workflows and through-put for data centers operations
  • Recommend, document, and oversee policies and procedures to meet industry best practices and to meet required SLAs
  • Maintain the on-call schedule coordinating absence and vacations
  • Be passionate about the quality and quantity of services being provided, and continuously strive to improve our Customer Experience
  • This role supports data centers in various operational stages including potential training at facilities under development until full operational status
  • Travel to or between data center locations as needed
  • Willingness to temporarily work at alternative sites during training or until facility operational
  • Travel frequency will vary based on business needs
  • Candidates must be able to travel (over 50 miles) or commute (less than 50 miles) to active data center sites as required by business needs

Qualifications

  • Experience in professional or military IT-related roles
  • 2+ years of people management or 2+ years of management experience
  • 1+ years of operations and on-call support for data center facilities, mission critical plants, or production facilities experience

Skills

Required:People managementOperations managementTechnical troubleshootingOn-call coordination

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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