Product Manager, Software Defined Infrastructure, Global

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

The Product team at Vantage defines and stewards our global product platform: the customer outcomes we aim to deliver, the reference designs and standards that make delivery repeatable, and the closed-loop learning that turns each deployment into an upgrade for the next. We do this in partnership with Engineering, Delivery, Operations, Sustainability, Sales, Site Selection, and Business Development, aligning priorities and trade-offs while preserving clear functional ownership for design execution, construction delivery, and site operations.

Product’s role is to create clarity, consistency, and leverage at Vantage’s scale.

Vantage is building a product platform approach for datacenter delivery: repeatable reference designs, governed variants, and a closed-loop learning system that turns each deployment into an upgrade for the next.

The Product Manager, Software Defined Infrastructure owns the software-defined infrastructure capabilities that enable our physical data center products to deploy, commission, operate, and improve s includes instrumentation, observability, automation, and orchestration applied to mission‑critical infrastructure, with a secure digital thread and evidence‑driven readiness.

This is not an application software product role. It is a systems product role bridging operational technology and information technology, defining how infrastructure behaves, is monitored, is controlled safely, and is evolved through versioned releases across regions and fleets.

• Own the capability roadmap for software‑defined infrastructure in partnership with the dedicated product teams and the Platform Product Manager, ensuring shared capabilities are reusable and avoid product divergence.

• Define product intent and requirements for instrumentation, observability, automation, and orchestration layers that sit above and within physical infrastructure products.

• Establish a consistent approach to telemetry and observability: what is instrumented, why, how it is standardised, and how signals translate into operational action with high alarm quality.

• Drive product requirements for low‑touch provisioning, deterministic commissioning workflows, and automated acceptance evidence where feasible, reducing manual steps and site‑specific logic.

• Define expectations for source control, configuration‑as‑code, release discipline, and version compatibility to support safe fleet operations across regions.

• Work with regional Product Deployment teams to define adoption in live projects, including rollout sequencing, upgrade paths, readiness requirements, and operational acceptance criteria.

• Partner with Security and IT/OT governance to ensure identity, access control, audit logging, and safety boundaries are designed in from the start.

• Software‑defined capabilities are embedded in infrastructure products by design, not added ad‑hoc per site.

• Provisioning, commissioning, and validation workflows become more repeatable and increasingly automated, reducing commissioning variability.

• Telemetry is standardised and actionable, with measurable data quality and clear signal‑to‑action paths.

• Code and configuration are versioned and governed with release discipline suitable for fleet operations, and change is controlled and auditable across regions.

• Deployment friction and exceptions reduce over time, and field signals translate into prioritised improvements.

• 6–10+ years in product management or systems roles spanning software, controls, automation, networking, telemetry, or intelligent infrastructure.

• Demonstrated experience applying product thinking to software‑enabled physical systems, with strong…