Data Center Operations Implementation Manager

Role description

Role Overview

The Data Center Operations Implementation Manager will own the end-to-end Day 0 to Day 2 transition of Nscale's data centers, spanning construction, fit-out, and live, steady-state local operations. This is an individual-contributor role built on strong stakeholder management, cross-functional influence, and travel to sites during critical transition windows.

What You Will Do

The Data Center Operations Implementation Manager will own the end-to-end Day 0 to Day 2 transition process for each data center site within their assigned region, track and drive closure of cross-team action items, dependencies, and blockers, and identify and escalate risks to go-live timelines.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 3-8 years of experience in data center operations, program/project management, or infrastructure deployment at scale, a proven track record coordinating the transition of new sites into live operations, and experience operating in a matrixed environment, influencing outcomes without direct authority over every stakeholder team.

Requirements

• 3-8 years of experience in data centre operations, program/project management, or infrastructure deployment at scale
• Proven track record coordinating the transition of new sites into live operations across construction, network, compute, and operations functions
• Experience operating in a matrixed environment, influencing outcomes without direct authority over every stakeholder team
• Demonstrated success managing multiple concurrent site transitions in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
• Background in hyperscale, cloud, or HPC data centre environments (preferred)
• Working knowledge of data centre power, cooling, networking, and compute infrastructure
• Familiarity with network deployment and cutover processes, and compute/hardware deployment lifecycles
• Knowledge of Layer 1 network infrastructure, including fiber, copper, optics, and transceivers
• Familiarity with ITSM tooling, ticketing systems, and monitoring platforms used by local Operations teams
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align Construction, Network, Compute, and Operations teams without direct authority
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills, able to translate technical detail between teams with different priorities and vocabularies
• Program management discipline, with the ability to track and drive multiple concurrent workstreams to closure
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, matrixed, fast-moving environments
• Bias toward ownership, pragmatism, and delivering results with urgency