Requirements:

+8 years of experience managing data center or infrastructure operations teams, including experience managing managers, line management, appraisals, performance reviews, and hiring.
+5 years' experience in hyperscale data center operations or comparable large-scale critical infrastructure environments.
+5 years' experience working across IT infrastructure, distributed systems, operating environments, and operational support functions.

Required Data Center experience:

Proven leadership across the full data center operations lifecycle, including rack preparation, deployment, incident response, capacity planning, maintenance, and decommissioning.
Strong understanding of data center infrastructure, including cabling, networking, cooling, power, UPS, generation, and white space capacity management.
Demonstrated ability to lead process improvement and operational excellence, including familiarity with 5S or similar workplace organization and continuous improvement practices.
Demonstrated ability to analyze complex operational processes, identify root causes, and drive sustainable improvements for customers and internal stakeholders.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and geographically distributed teams.
Strong influencing, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to operate with high autonomy, set direction, and lead through managers in a complex operational environment.
Open to providing after-hours leadership support as needed for urgent operational issues, escalations, and business-critical events.
Experience supporting large enterprise or cloud customers in a demanding operational environment.
Strong understanding of operational governance, compliance, audit readiness, safety, and site standards within data center environments.
Demonstrated examples of data center capacity planning, resource planning, and delivery of operational targets within budget.
Demonstrated understanding of change management, incident management, risk management, and continuous improvement in a live operations context.

Your responsibilities:

Provide senior leadership, direction, and strategy across Oracle's Frankfurt Data Centers.
Lead, coach, and mentor managers and individual contributors through regular 1:1s, performance check-ins, feedback, and career development guidance.
Grow the organization by recruiting, developing, engaging, and retaining top talent.
Audit data center spaces and operational practices to ensure compliance with 5S, safety, quality, and operational standards while identifying areas for improvement.
Set priorities, delegate effectively through managers, and ensure resources are aligned to the highest-impact operational goals.
Manage performance and service delivery across vendors, colocation providers, internal partners, and related support teams.
Act as a second level escalation point for Frankfurt data center operations and liaise with internal stakeholders of snr. director level and above to remove blockers and align delivery.
Be available on-call to provide senior leadership for urgent operational issues and emergencies as needed.
Ensure teams meet OCI Service Level Agreements and deliver assigned goals, projects, and targets on time and within budget.
Participate in GEO-wide and global projects, represent the Frankfurt region, and contribute to the success of related organizations and teams.

At Oracle, we don’t just respect differences—we celebrate them. We believe that innovation starts with inclusion and to create the future we need people with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. That’s why we’re committed to creating a workplace where all kinds of people can do their best work. It’s when everyone’s voice is heard and valued that we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before.

We expressly encourage disabled candidates to apply for this position. Please therefore feel free to voluntarily inform us in your application about any severe disability (degree of disability of at least 50%) or any equal status (degree of disability of at least 30% together with official decision on equality) in accordance with the German SGB IX.”

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