Essential Infrastructure Manager

Position Title: Essential Infrastructure Manager

Location: Ashburn, VA

Your role

The Essential Infrastructure Manager is a part of the Data Center Operations Team. The Essential Infrastructure Manager shall provide leadership and management for day-to-day operations of a large scale Data Center mechanical plant, while ensuring the highest levels of reliability and availability are maintained.

What you’ll do

• Possess a comprehensive knowledge of large scale Data Centers, including mechanical and fire protection infrastructures
• Possess a thorough understanding of building automation systems that assist in the operation and control of the mechanical plant infrastructure
• Schedule, coordinate and participate in all significant planned and emergency maintenance for the facility
• Shall ensure all maintenance for the facility is executed in a controlled and proven a method that ensures uninterrupted integrity of the critical loads supported by these systems
• Developing operating and maintenance strategies to ensure continuous availability of all critical systems
• Developing and updating preventative and predictive maintenance programs for essential equipment
• Coordinating and inspecting services performed by outsourced vendors
• Managing costs and budgets associated with the Essential Infrastructure Department and associated operations
• Maintaining an environment where diligence to policies and proven policies processes are quintessential
• Ensuring best practices and standards are adopted and enforced
• Identifying and pursuing opportunities for innovation
• Establishing and cultivating relationships with key contacts internally and externally

Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or a two-year Technical Degree (preferred)
• 5 years of facility management or facility engineering in a high reliability Data Center environment
• Expertise in Microsoft Office suite applications, preferably Microsoft Project, Visio or AutoCad
• Advanced written communication and technical writing skills
• Complex problem solving using analysis, technical and organizational expertise in order to develop creative innovative solutions
• Must be able to create consensus around new ideas and initiatives
• Identify industry trends and articulate implications that will have an impact on the Data Center operation
• Actively solicits feedback to ensure all activities and deliverables meet expectations
• Identifies opportunities to increase efficiency
• Extended hours may be significant at times
• Strong written and verbal command of the English language
• Responsible attitude with strong work ethic; leading by example in attendance, attitude and technical work product
• Ability and willingness to respond to emails after hours in the event of an emergency

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Operations

Our Operations team keeps our customers’ infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions.Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation range: $145,000-$167,000 annually. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as abase salaryfor this position at the time of this posting.

Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.