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You will interact and maintain relationships with various authorities and partners across all sectors of the data center industry. You will use keen business acumen and financial management skills to manage operating costs effectively, while maintaining the highest standards of safety, security, and ecological responsibility. Excellent interpersonal awareness, ability to navigate ambiguity, and your mature communication skills will be pivotal in bringing your program management, technical abilities, and leadership experiences to a whole new level in supporting Microsoft’s success!\nMicrosoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a CO+I Data Center Campus Director, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform. As a group, CO+I is focused on the personal and professional development for all employees and offers trainings and growth opportunities including Career Rotation Programs, Diversity & Inclusion trainings and events, and professional certifications.\nOur infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 Data Centers in 32 countries and millions of servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.\nWith environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our data center design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.\nMicrosoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.\nResponsibilities\nChampion a strong culture of safety, security, compliance and environmental responsibility across data center operations.\nLead, coach and develop multidisciplinary teams across Mechanical, Electrical, Controls and IT operations, ensuring reliable and efficient day-to-day operations.\nDrive Critical Environment availability, operational performance and service delivery, reducing incidents and ensuring customer capacity is delivered on time and to required standards.\nLead major incident response and service recovery, including root-cause reviews, improvement actions and sharing operational best practices.\nOversee capacity planning, infrastructure delivery and complex data center programmes, partnering with engineering, regional and global teams to support growth across the UAE.\nOwn financial, energy and partner performance, including budgets, operational and capital expenditure, efficiency initiatives, vendor relationships and key external stakeholders.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\n\nBachelor Degree or equivalent and 10+ years of experience in mission-critical service management, such as IT services, manufacturing, warehousing, retail, military operations, or physical operations within an IT and/or critical environment infrastructure.\n5+ years of experience leading, directly managing and influencing a diverse organisation of full-time employees across multiple disciplines and platforms.\nDemonstrated experience leading operational delivery in a complex, high-availability or mission-critical environment.\nDemonstrated ability to lead incident response, communicate with senior stakeholders and drive corrective and preventive actions.\nBackground Check Requirements:\nAbility to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Science, Mathematics, Telecommunications, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or a related field; or a relevant technical college certification in mechanical or electrical engineering/services.\n7+ years of enterprise-level experience managing large-scale and complex projects or programmes.7+ years of experience with Critical Environment infrastructure, such as UPS systems, generators and air-handling units.\n7+ years of experience with physical IT infrastructure, such as servers, storage, networking, capacity, racks/enclosures and structured cabling.Experience managing budgets of USD 5 million or more, including forecasting and operational and capital expenditure controls.\n7+ years of experience leading a diverse technical workforce, or 10+ years of experience managing global and virtual teams.\nExperience working on large-scale Critical Environment projects and operating IT infrastructure.\nRelevant certifications such as ITIL Foundation, PMP, CDCP, CompTIA, Microsoft, CCNA, inventory control, Microsoft Operations Framework, or leadership development certifications.\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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