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As a CO+I DC Operations Manager, 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 100 datacenters and 1 million 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 datacenter 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.\nDo you want to empower billions across the world? Come and join us in CO+I and be at the forefront of the action!\nResponsibilities\nAs aDatacenter IT Operations Manager,your success will be measured by:\nPeople Management:\nDeliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.\nLive our culture, embody our values, and practice our leadership principles.\nDefine team objectives and outcomes, enable success across boundaries, and help the team adapt and learn.\nAttract and retain great people, know everyone’scapabilities and aspirations, and invest in the growth of others.\n Data Center Operations:\nDocument and drive alignment on dependencies, supplier contracts, success metrics, resource readiness, operational, supportability, and manageability criteria. \nReview Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) and provide input to improve or increase efficiency across IT and Critical Environment (CE) services.\nPartner cross-functionally to support global and regional initiatives (e.g., environmental health and safety, risk assessments, certifications). \nManages/supports alignment to budget of the Data Center and makes tradeoff decisions to adhere to sound fiscal practices. \nSupport budget planning and forecasting demand costs, driving awareness among business leaders on implications of service management issues and negotiating to win resources of costs, risks, and team leads as required.\nPlan and work with business partners when executing their requirements to maintain adherence to datacenter availability, safety, and security.\nFollows and adheres to run book provided by Environment, Health, & Safety division. Reports immediately any safety or security issues or concerns. \nService Delivery:\nAccountable for end-to-end service compliance, quality, and client satisfaction for the agreed-upon service levels. \nManage relationships with clients to ensure that all expectations are clarified and understood and deliver solutions that exceed client expectations while maintaining a strong customer focus.\nApplies deep subject matter expertise and escalates to meet SLA/OLAs with minimal disruption to the client/customer and business and reviews metrics with team to ensure understanding of targets and current performance levels. \nShare common and repeating cases with regional and global teams, while providing best practices to address and mitigate recurrence of issues and implement more efficient solutions for resolution.\nManage resources appropriately to accommodate pilot programs and task force participation and make recommendations for additional funding where necessary. \nUnderstand future business demand within the datacenter to ensure staffing levels are appropriate.\nEnsure teams complete the required training and partner with Learning & Development organization to evolve training portfolio.\nParticipate in every Sev 1 and Sev 2 Incident Bridge meeting and approve root cause analysis and postmortem reporting.\nEmpowers teams to work collaboratively and creates visibility to help other teams succeed with regional/global management teams.\nData Center Work Environment\nRemove barriers that inhibit agility to enable team to shift priorities quickly without losing productivity.\nMaintain a broad perspective and work to incorporate diverse viewpoints while identifying and evaluating opportunities to create strategies that cross organizational boundaries and drive broad business goals.\nEstablish a culture of safety, quality, and customer obsession while ensuring the team’s standards are consistent with overall service objectives. \nCreate the type of conditions for successful collaboration, geared toward identifying and resolving organization-wide issues by bringing together creative and relevant solutions from diverse perspectives.\nUnderstand workforce capability and delegate work accordingly across team to effectively deliver results, finding ways to accomplish more by enabling others. \nFind opportunities for collaboration across groups within division, ensure that cross-team commitments are set, and achieve scale by enabling the work of others.\nDelegate to others to promote growth and development of future leaders.\nAct as a trusted resource and advisor to a wide network of colleagues with diverse viewpoints.\nRecognize team successes and reward teamwork and contributions to team success while driving a culture that’s focused on meeting strategic goals\nOwnership:\nHave pride and a sense of personal accountability for end-to-end service quality, completeness, and resulting customer experience. \nIdentify unaddressed issues across service and resolve, escalate, or find the appropriate owner to ensure the highest level of quality. \nDrive and own the service management perspective to ensure that business leaders understand the business implications of risks, dependencies, and budgets to enable good business decisions and ensure the long-term value of the service. \nModel and foster accountability and morale for the team.\nOther:\nEmbody our Microsoft One culture and values.\nQualifications\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nHigh School Diploma or equivalent AND 5+ years’ experience of mission-critical service management (e.g., providing IT services, manufacturing, warehouse, retail, military, or managing physical operations in an IT and/or critical environment infrastructure).\n3+ years’ experience in leading a diverse, technical team. \n Background 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.\n Preferred Qualifications:\n6+ years enterprise-level experience managing large scale and complex projects/programs AND 6+ years’ experience in Critical Environment infrastructures (e.g., UPS, Generator, AHU) AND 6+ years’ experience in physical IT infrastructures (e.g., Servers, SANs, Networking, Capacity, DC Rack/Enclosures, structured cabling) AND Experience managing budget $1M+.\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Telecommunications, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field.\n5+ years’ experience leading diverse, technical workforce or managing global and virtual teams.\nApplicable certifications: ASICS/Inventory Control, CompTIA, Microsoft, Network Certifications, CCNA Certifications, ITIL v3 Foundation, Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) Certifications, Leadership Development Certifications, PMP, CDCP.\nData Center Operations Management M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,600 - $202,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,500 - $225,800 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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