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About the Role

As a Site Integration and Deployment Director within Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) organization, you will lead teams and partner with stakeholders to drive operational excellence across Network Operations, Edge Site Operations, new data center site integration, operational readiness, and AI infrastructure deployment. This role is critical for delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies supporting Microsoft's online services.

Responsibilities

Create and champion a culture of safety, security, availability, quality, and compliance across data center operations.
Lead, coach, and support teams while demonstrating Microsoft’s culture, values, and leadership principles.
Attract, develop, and retain diverse talent, creating an environment that supports individual growth, collaboration, and career development.
Build an inclusive environment where differing perspectives are valued and team members are empowered to contribute.
Establish clear priorities and accountability while enabling teams to successfully deliver against business and operational objectives.
Champion continuous improvement and positive organizational change across areas of accountability.
Create an environment that encourages collaboration, curiosity, learning, and knowledge sharing.
Contribute to regional and global improvement programs and apply lessons learned and best practices to strengthen operational performance.
Identify opportunities to improve processes, tooling, quality, efficiency, reliability, and customer outcomes.
Lead the integration and operational readiness of new data center sites as they transition from design and construction into operations.
Partner across engineering, construction, commissioning, deployment, and operations teams to support successful site delivery.
Help drive excellence in data center design standards, construction, commissioning, capacity utilization, and operational readiness.
Ensure newly launched facilities transition effectively into the field operations portfolio.
Identify integration risks and work across teams to establish appropriate mitigation and resolution plans.
Support the delivery and readiness of core network infrastructure for new and existing data center locations.
Provide leadership across network infrastructure installation, device deployment readiness, hardware troubleshooting, and improvements to associated processes and tools.
Lead large-scale network and infrastructure transformation programs from planning through completion, with a focus on quality, schedule, cost, and operational readiness.
Support Edge Data Center Operations to maintain strong standards of safety, security, governance, reliability, and infrastructure services across the region.
Lead teams responsible for the end-to-end deployment of AI infrastructure and equipment within Microsoft data centers.
Establish effective governance across deployment programs, including risk and issue management, program communications, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting.
Partner across technical, engineering, deployment, and operations organizations to support the successful delivery of AI infrastructure.
Drive consistent execution while identifying and addressing risks that could impact deployment, operational readiness, safety, quality, or customer outcomes.

Requirements

Extensive leadership and management experience within production, mission-critical, data center, infrastructure, technology, or comparable operational environments.
Significant experience managing complex vendor relationships, commercial agreements, contracts, or operating partnerships.
Demonstrated experience leading, directly managing, and influencing diverse and multidisciplinary teams across complex organizations.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, build alignment across stakeholders, and deliver meaningful business and operational outcomes.
Proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing teams.
Strong knowledge of physical IT infrastructure, which may include servers, storage, networking, capacity, data center racks/enclosures, or structured cabling.
Knowledge of Critical Environment infrastructure and concepts, which may include electrical distribution, power systems, cooling systems, mechanical infrastructure, or comparable mission-critical technologies.
Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively across technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
Strong understanding of financial management, budgeting, cost management, and forecasting.
Experience applying project or program management principles within complex technical or operational environments.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Skills

Network Operations
Edge Site Operations
Data Center Site Integration
Operational Readiness
AI Infrastructure Deployment
Physical IT Infrastructure
Critical Environment Infrastructure
Financial Management
Budgeting
Cost Management
Forecasting
Project Management
Program Management
IT Service Management
Service Operations Principles
ITIL
OLA/SLA Management
Continuous Service Improvement

Location

Ireland

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Telecommunications, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Salary/Compensations

€ 106,300.00 - € 188,800.00 per year

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

About the Company

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) organization is the engine that powers our cloud services.
CO+I is committed to the personal and professional development of our employees, providing opportunities to learn, grow, develop new capabilities, and build meaningful careers.

Equal Opportunity

Microsoft 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.
If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.