Data Center Operations Manager

Manage Cloud Infrastructure TeamAWS is looking for technology managers with experience in people management, strong technical understanding and the drive and vision to take AWS Data Center Operations to the next level. The successful candidate will have experience creating/devising strategies, mentoring people at all levels, sponsoring projects, and proposing technical solutions.

This position involves leading teams in hardware and network diagnostics followed by physical repair and includes participation in an on-call rotation. AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running.

We support all AWS data centers and all servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers.

And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion. NOTE: PDX is an AWS GovCloud region. As required by our contracts with the federal government, effective February 24, 2026, logical access to the AWS GovCloud region will be restricted to Amazon employees who are U.
S. Citizens. (GovCloud may NOT be accessed from outside of the United States).
Key job responsibilities include: Prioritizing and assigning trouble tickets to data center technicians and operators, managing the performance of a diverse team of data center operation professionals, developing career paths for employees, recruiting and training data technicians, ensuring effective and efficient management of day-to-day data center operations, fast learning or acting as the subject matter expert across all aspects in data center operations, inspiring and guiding improvement in team process, technology innovation and automation, managing large scale events (outages) and acting as the call leader, managing and improving the workflows and through-put for data centers operations, recommending, documenting, and overseeing policies and procedures to meet industry best practices and to meet required SLAs, maintaining the on-call schedule coordinating absence and vacations, and being passionate about the quality and quantity of services being provided, and continuously striving to improve our Customer Experience.

This role supports data centers in various operational stages. The position may be assigned to a facility still under development, which could require travel to established locations for training until your designated site becomes fully operational.

Essential requirements include the ability to travel to or commute between data center locations as needed, willingness to temporarily work at alternative sites during training periods or until assigned facility is operational, and candidates must be able to travel (over 50 miles) or commute (less than 50 miles) to active data center sites as required by business needs.

About the team: AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the

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, we encourage candidates to apply.

If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying. Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique.

Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. Mentorship and Career Growth We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic qualifications include 4+ years of Information Technology (IT) experience, or a Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, 2+ years of people management experience, and 2+ years of operations and on-call support for data center facilities, mission crit