Director, Technical Operations

THE COMPANY:

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.THE POSITION:

STACK is looking for a Director of Technical Operations (DTO) to support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of critical data center infrastructure across the portfolio. As a leader in STACK’s Critical Operations team, the Director of Technical Operations is accountable for an integrated Technical Operations domain focused on the operational performance, reliability, and governance of mission-critical electrical, mechanical, and supporting infrastructure.

The DTO integrates capability roadmaps, governance, resources, and priorities; resolves competing priorities and risks across the domain; and translates Technical Operations strategy into coordinated execution.

Lead and coach the Technical Operations team as STACK’s center of excellence for operational standards, assurance, asset reliability, risk management, and continuous improvement across the portfolio.

Collaborate with the leadership team to identify opportunities to improve our Technical Operations programs;
Develop and implement agreed changes.

Champion a culture that’s safety-focused, candid, and transparent

Drive alignment of standards, governance, and improvement initiatives across related capabilities to improve critical operations safety, reliability, productivity, and effectiveness.

Work with Critical Operations leadership and capability owners to align domain roadmaps, operating priorities, and risk-based improvements with field operational needs.

Demonstrate strong technical knowledge of mission-critical data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure, including utility and power distribution, emergency power generation, UPS systems, cooling systems, and fire/life-safety systems.

Provide domain leadership and informed technical judgment across critical facilities operations, asset reliability, operational risk, policies, procedures, and other assigned capabilities.

Ensure standards and programs developed within the domain are aligned, scalable, and effectively governed to support site operations.

Ensure appropriate governance exists across the domain for development, review, implementation, and assurance of critical operations standards and procedures.

Ensure assurance and performance mechanisms identify compliance, systemic risk, and opportunities to improve policies, processes, and program effectiveness across the domain.

Mentor and develop capability and program leaders, strengthening execution, judgment, and accountability across the domain.

Ensure capability owners coordinate appropriate field enablement, training, and change adoption for domain programs.

Ensure significant events and systemic issues are evaluated across relevant capabilities and translated into coordinated corrective and preventive actions.

Ensure field operations tools and processes within the domain have clear ownership, support, governance, and adoption mechanisms.

Resolve cross-capability issues, competing priorities, and escalated risks that inhibit critical operations performance.

Participate in departmental leadership meetings.

Gather, document, and share best practices. Act as a change agent.

THE DETAILS:

Locations:
Portland OR, San Jose,…