Senior Director, Data Center Facilities

Digital Ocean
Seattle
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 233,600 - 292,000 annuallyFunction: Facilities, Workplace & Physical OperationsExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Stakeholder management","Strategic planning","Change management"]

Senior leader responsible for on-site data center operations across DigitalOcean’s global footprint, building scalable operating models, staffing and governance, and ensuring readiness for rapid expansion. Drives operational excellence, incident response, vendor management, and high-density GPU/liquid-cooled deployments to meet aggressive SLAs and growth.

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Senior Director, Data Center Facilities

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Job Summary

Senior leader responsible for on-site data center operations across DigitalOcean’s global footprint, building scalable operating models, staffing and governance, and ensuring readiness for rapid expansion. Drives operational excellence, incident response, vendor management, and high-density GPU/liquid-cooled deployments to meet aggressive SLAs and growth.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Facilities, Workplace & Physical Operations
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provides senior leadership for data center on-site operations across DigitalOcean’s existing and expanding global footprint.
  • •Leads the development and execution of a scalable operating model for data center sites, including standards for staffing, shift coverage, escalation, maintenance, change management, incident response, vendor oversight, inventory control, deployment support, and customer-impact prevention.
  • •Drives operational excellence across all data center locations by identifying gaps, standardizing best practices, improving execution discipline, and ensuring consistent adoption of policies, procedures, and operating standards.
  • •Leads site operations teams responsible for 24x7 data center support, ensuring availability, reliability, safety, quality, and service delivery meet or exceed business and customer expectations.
  • •Improves on-site execution performance by strengthening accountability, defining clear ownership, and implementing measurable performance standards across locations.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 233,600 - 292,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field; equivalent work experience may be considered.
  • •Minimum of 8 years of experience in data center operations, infrastructure operations, colocation operations, cloud infrastructure, or related technical operations environment.
  • •Minimum of 5 to 7 years of senior leadership experience managing operational, technical, or site-support teams in a large enterprise, cloud, or colocation environment.
  • •Demonstrated experience managing operations across multiple data center locations or large-scale mission-critical facilities.
  • •Proven experience developing and implementing operational improvement roadmaps.
Experience:8+ yearsData centerInfrastructureGPUAI
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationStakeholder managementStrategic planningChange management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GPULiquid coolingData center infrastructureUPSPower distributionCabling

Company Brief

Digital Ocean
Provides cloud infrastructure and developer-focused cloud services including scalable droplets, managed databases, Kubernetes, object storage, and networking to simplify deploying and managing applications for developers and small-to-medium businesses.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2011
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