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Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.\nJoin us to transform the way the world works.\n At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.\nLinkedIn's Data Center Engineering organization is responsible for the strategy, design, construction, deployment, operations, and continuous evolution of the infrastructure that powers LinkedIn's global platform. We are seeking a Senior Director of Data Center Engineering to lead a multidisciplinary organization responsible for data center operations, construction and delivery, infrastructure lifecycle management, capacity growth, and critical facilities engineering across a global portfolio.\nThis leader will provide strategic direction and operational leadership for LinkedIn's data center infrastructure, ensuring world-class reliability, scalability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. The role requires a blend of executive leadership, technical expertise, program execution, and business acumen to support LinkedIn's rapidly growing compute and AI infrastructure demands.\nThe ideal candidate has extensive experience leading hyperscale, enterprise, or colocation data center environments and is capable of driving outcomes across engineering, operations, finance, real estate, sourcing, capacity planning, and executive leadership teams. Responsibilities align closely with LinkedIn's current Data Center Engineering portfolio, including operations, design and delivery, provider management, long-term capacity strategy, and advanced cooling initiatives.\nResponsibilities:\nStrategic Leadership\nDefine and execute LinkedIn's long-term data center engineering strategy, capacity roadmap, and infrastructure growth plans.\n\nLead global data center operations, engineering, construction, and delivery functions across multiple regions.\n\nDevelop organizational priorities, operating models, staffing plans, and investment strategies to support business growth.\n\nServe as the executive point of contact for data center providers, strategic partners, and senior leadership stakeholders.\n\nDrive innovation across data center design, operational excellence, sustainability, automation, and AI infrastructure readiness.\n\nData Center Design & Construction\nLead the planning, design, construction, commissioning, and operational handoff of new data center deployments, expansions, and retrofits.\n\nEstablish and maintain engineering standards, Basis of Design (BOD) documents, commissioning requirements, and operational readiness processes.\n\nOversee design reviews of electrical, mechanical, controls, and critical infrastructure systems.\n\nPartner with internal and external teams to ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and aligned with business objectives.\n\nSupport site selection efforts, technical due diligence, and infrastructure evaluations for future growth opportunities.\n\nData Center Operations\nOwn operational reliability, availability, and performance across LinkedIn's global data center portfolio.\n\nEstablish operational standards, maintenance programs, SOPs, EOPs, MOPs, and incident management processes.\n\nDevelop KPI-driven operational programs focused on uptime, safety, SLA compliance, efficiency, and continuous improvement.\n\nLead crisis management and executive response during critical infrastructure incidents and service-impacting events.\n\nEnsure facilities operate at peak efficiency while maintaining LinkedIn's resiliency and reliability standards.\n\nCapacity, Provider & Business Management\nPartner with Capacity Planning, Hardware Engineering, Networking, and Infrastructure organizations to align infrastructure delivery with future demand.\n\nLead relationships with colocation providers, contractors, equipment vendors, consultants, and service partners.\n\nDrive lease negotiations, provider governance, business reviews, expansion planning, and commercial decision-making.\n\nDevelop annual operating and capital budgets and ensure disciplined execution against financial targets.\n\nPrepare business cases for major investments, infrastructure upgrades, and strategic initiatives.\n\nPeople Leadership\nLead and develop a high-performing team of managers, engineers, and technical leaders.\n\nBuild a culture centered on safety, accountability, operational excellence, inclusion, and continuous learning.\n\nEstablish succession plans, talent development strategies, and career growth opportunities across the organization.\n\nFoster strong cross-functional partnerships and alignment across engineering, operations, real estate, sourcing, finance, security, and legal teams.\n\nEmerging Technologies\nLead the evaluation and deployment of next-generation data center technologies, including high-density compute environments and direct liquid cooling solutions.\n\nDrive innovation in monitoring, automation, telemetry, sustainability, and operational efficiency.\n\nStay informed of industry trends and ensure LinkedIn remains at the forefront of data center engineering practices.\n\n Basic Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Construction Management, or a related technical field.\n\n15+ years of experience in data center engineering, operations, construction, or critical infrastructure environments.\n\n7+ years of experience leading engineering, operations, or construction teams.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.\n\nExperience managing large-scale data center infrastructure programs across multiple facilities or regions.\n\nDemonstrated expertise in mission-critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure systems.\n\nExperience managing multimillion-dollar capital and operating budgets.\n\nExperience leading vendor, contractor, and colocation provider relationships.\n\nStrong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.\n\nExperience in hyperscale or large enterprise data center environments.\n\nExperience with site selection, colocation strategy, lease negotiations, and provider governance.\n\nExperience with liquid cooling, AI infrastructure deployments, and high-density compute environments.\n\nStrong understanding of commissioning, integrated systems testing, and operational readiness processes.\n\nExperience driving large-scale organizational transformation, standardization, and operational improvement programs.\n\nProfessional certifications such as PE, CDCE, CDCS, CDCP, PMP, ITIL, Uptime Institute, or equivalent.\n\nSuggested Skills\nData Center Engineering, Design, and Construction\n\nData Center Operational Excellence\n\nData Center Colocation Strategy\n\nVendor & Contract Management\n\nExecutive Leadership\n\nYou will Benefit from our Culture:\nWe strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels.\nLinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.\nThe pay range for this role is $211,000 to $347,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.\nThe total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.\n Equal Opportunity Statement\nWe seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.\nLinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.\nIf you need a Reasonable Accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us and describe the specific Accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.\nFill out an Accommodation request here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/b660a0327d044969abfd7a4e73d15c36\nReasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:\nDocuments in alternate formats or read aloud to you\nHaving interviews in an accessible location\nBeing accompanied by a service dog\nHaving a sign language interpreter present for the interview\nA request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.\nLinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. 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