Senior Data Center Manager (m/f/d)

In this role you lead Oracle's Frankfurt Data Centers, steering senior-level operations and strategy across multi-site infrastructure. You drive operational excellence, safety, and governance while aligning resources to high-impact goals. You will manage managers and partners to ensure service delivery, incident handling, and capacity planning at scale. This is a chance to shape critical data-center operations within a global, AI-enabled cloud environment.

• flexible medical options
• life insurance
• retirement options
• volunteer programs
• competitive benefits
• inclusive workplace initiatives

• Provide senior leadership and strategic direction across Frankfurt Data Centers
• Coach and mentor managers and staff with regular performance feedback and career development guidance
• Grow the organization through targeted recruitment and talent retention
• Audit spaces and practices for 5S, safety, quality, and continuous improvement
• Set priorities, delegate through managers, and align resources to top operational goals
• Oversee performance and service delivery with vendors, colo providers, and internal teams
• Serve as escalation point for Frankfurt operations and engage senior stakeholders to remove blockers
• Be on-call for urgent operational issues and emergencies
• Ensure OCI SLAs and timely delivery of projects within budget
• Participate in GEO-wide and global projects supporting regional and cross-region success

• 8+ years managing data center or infrastructure operations teams including line management, appraisals, and hiring
• 5+ years in hyperscale data center operations or large-scale environments
• 5+ years across IT infrastructure, distributed systems, and operational support
• Leadership across full data center operations lifecycle (rack, deployment, incidents, capacity, maintenance, decommissioning)
• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure (cabling, networking, cooling, power, UPS, generation, white space)
• Experience with process improvement and operational excellence (5S or similar)
• Ability to analyze complex processes, identify root causes, and drive improvements
• Excellent verbal and written communication with senior stakeholders and distributed teams
• Influencing, stakeholder management, and decision-making across technical and non-technical audiences
• Autonomous leadership through managers in a complex environment
• Willingness to provide after-hours leadership for urgent issues
• Experience supporting large enterprise or cloud customers in demanding environments
• Strong governance, compliance, audit readiness, safety, and site standards knowledge
• Track record of capacity planning, resource planning, and delivering targets within budget
• Understanding of change, incident, risk management, and continuous improvement in live operations
• Location-specific: Frankfurt region leadership role
• Ability to be on-call for escalation and emergencies

• strong communication
• stakeholder management
• ability to influence senior stakeholders
• data center operations
• capacity planning
• change management