Vice President, Data Center Infrastructure Solutions & Technical Enablement
On-siteDallas, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Lead data center infrastructure deployments, rack operations, and network commissioning while managing hardware lifecycle, vendor coordination, and colocation partnerships. Develop strategic relationships with cloud providers, data center owners, and technology vendors to convert opportunities into revenue, serving as a technical advisor during sales and solution scoping. Build scalable technical workforce pipelines by establishing competency standards, interview criteria, and train-the-trainer capabilities for deployment and network technicians. Create repeatable operational standards including SOPs, MOPs, and change-management processes to ensure consistent execution across mission-critical environments. Coordinate integrated physical and cyber security strategies for access control, asset protection, and incident response.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of data center, infrastructure, cloud, network, or mission-critical facility experience
- Significant experience supporting large-scale data center deployments
- Strong understanding of server, network, rack, cabling, power, and infrastructure environments
- Experience working with cloud providers, hyperscalers, colocation facilities, ISPs, technology vendors, or enterprise data centers
- Demonstrated experience developing technicians or technical teams
- Experience developing SOPs, MOPs, runbooks, deployment procedures, and operational standards
- Strong vendor and contractor management experience
- Ability to communicate effectively with technicians, engineers, executives, customers, and partners
- Established relationships throughout the data center and infrastructure industry
- Experience supporting customer development, strategic partnerships, technical sales, or solution engineering
- Ability to translate technical requirements into staffing and operational solutions
- Strong leadership, documentation, mentoring, and problem-solving skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with technologies or environments involving Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Linux, structured cabling, DWDM, out-of-band management, monitoring platforms, hardware lifecycle management, GPU/high-density infrastructure, or liquid-cooled environments
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