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    Regional Data Center Manager

    Competitive
     

    Job Description

    Montreal, Canada
     
    The Client

    Datacenter People has been instructed by a global player and the leading European cloud provider operating over 450,000 servers within 34 data centers across 4 continents to reach 1.6 million customers in over 140 countries.

    What The Job Involves 

    • Define and deploy indicators to control and monitor your region's performance. 
    • Monitor performance and assist teams in the operation of IT and infrastructure activities: growth connections, inventory management, etc.
    • You help maintain and run the data center infrastructure. 
    • Plan and coordinate the operational activities of the data centers located in your region. 
    • Ensure that expected service levels are met and guarantee operational improvement. 
    • Monitor the application of our key regional processes and participate in the continuous improvement of processes within your scope. 
    • Ensure that data centers and production facilities comply with local regulations. 
    • Manage operational teams in your region's data and production centers. 
    • Inform, direct and coordinate center managers. 
    • Contribute to the deployment of skills and the optimisation of regional organisation. 
    • Help define the training and documentation required to optimise and improve performance.
    • Drawing up workload and recruitment plans with the human resources department. You participate in the recruitment of production data center teams. 
    • Define and evaluate the budgets required for each center in the region.
    • Provide leadership and direction for your region's development initiatives. 
    • Build strong links with companies in your region and contribute to regional development and growth.
    • Contribute to the deployment of new data centers in your region. 
    • In liaison with the regional sales team, you will contribute to knowledge of our activities and operating model and supervise visits to our data centers. 
    • Manager of the Beauharnois site, which is unique in that it contains both a data center and a production center. 
    • As such, you are the main contact for local and regional external authorities, as well as the internal contact for OVHcloud HQ services. 
    • Lead the local management committee, monitor KPIs for the 2 parts Production and Data center.
    • Coordinate operations for the data center, production center and site growth with expansion projects. 
    • Responsible for relations with the USA sites, in conjunction with the USA regional manager, mainly concerning the production of racks for the USA region. 
    • Responsible of promoting OVHcloud externally with the local community and be in charge of relations with neighbouring manufacturers. 

    We’re Looking for Someone With

    • Very good knowledge of IT and data center infrastructures. 
    • Excellent leadership, communication and organisational skills. 
    • Ability to manage and support data center and production managers. 
    • Mastery of continuous improvement and industrial performance methods 
    • Crisis management. 
    • Knowledge of operational management tools (budgeting, reporting, etc.) 
    • Ability to work in compliance with standards and regulations. 
    • Good knowledge of English and French, written and spoken.
    • Good leadership skills.
    • Open-mindedness and ability to involve employees in a global context 
    • ability to lead and unite teams.
    • Proven experience in site management. 
    • 10 years' experience in industrial site management, and in intercultural environments  
    • Experience within global companies, interacting with corporate departments based in Europe. 
    • Strong regional network.  
    • Experience in IT is a plus.   

    We regret that due to the high volume of applications we are unable to acknowledge each one. Please bear in mind that if you are selected for interview we will contact you within the next seven days.

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