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Data Center Facility Operations Manager

Amazon· Operations, IT, & Support Engineering
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Hermiston, OR$129.2k - $193kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Technical leader responsible for the governance, reliability, and efficiency of data center facility operations, overseeing critical physical infrastructure and on-site teams to maintain high availability and safety.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee all aspects of the data center’s critical physical infrastructure. Maintain high availability and performance while ensuring that all work performed within the site is done to high quality without impact to internal/external customers and maintain service level agreements.
  • Manage on-site teams of 24x7 shift technicians, sub-contractors and vendors ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures and safety protocols.
  • Drive safety and security culture and compliance within the team
  • Hire, coach, and promote team members. Responsible for team's career development and performance management
  • Promotes healthy team culture and peak morale
  • Effectively and efficiently manage the operations budget and expenditures.
  • Engage in improvement projects, often requiring reaching out to a variety of support teams, and drive them from conception to completion.
  • Act as an escalation point for all facilities-related issues. Oversee operation and management of routine and emergency services on a variety of critical systems such as: switchgear, generators, UPS systems, power distribution equipment, chillers, cooling towers, computer room air handlers, building monitoring systems, etc.
  • Utilize root cause analysis and troubleshooting/problem solving skills
  • Respond to out-of-hours emergency calls.
  • Role may support more than one location/site.
  • May assist in the build out of new facilities and assist in projects to increase current facility efficiency
  • Utilize Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and other basic administrative tools to perform day to day tasks

Qualifications

  • High school or equivalent diploma
  • 4+ years of work in a management position with 5 or more direct reports experience
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience in a data center or other mission critical environment with knowledge in UPS, Generators, HVAC, Evaporators and other critical infrastructure OR 7+ years of Technical (Military/Trade School) training and/or experience

Skills

Required:Data center facility managementElectrical systemsMechanical systems

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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