Vice President, Reliability and Technical Assurance, Global
$250,000–$270,000 year
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom or Denver, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Vice President, Reliability and Technical Assurance leading a new fleetwide function to govern global operational standards, performance visibility, and risk across a large, multi-region data-center portfolio. Responsible for establishing baseline reliability, risk modeling, verification of critical controls, and driving corrective action through an evidence-based assurance cycle. Collaborates with regional operations, reliability engineering, product, IT, and cybersecurity to define telemetry, alarm quality, configuration management, and AI-enabled drift detection. Requires 15+ years in high-reliability environments, governance experience, field presence, and the ability to influence across a matrixed organization, with up to 30-40% travel. Ideally based in Denver, Colorado or London, England.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years in mission-critical operations, reliability engineering, operational assurance, critical facilities, industrial operations, process safety, or another high-reliability environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading reliability, technical assurance, operational excellence, engineering assurance, or risk-based inspection across a complex operating fleet.
- Strong working understanding of mission-critical electrical, mechanical, controls, automation, commissioning, maintenance, and operating procedure environments.
- Experience investigating incidents, near misses, recurring defects, or systemic reliability issues and converting findings into practical corrective actions.
- Experience building governance or assurance systems that drive operational improvement rather than reporting alone.
- Credible field presence: comfortable with site walks, control rooms, methods of procedure, maintenance realities, and difficult technical conversations — not solely an executive-reporting leader.
- The ability to operate through influence in a matrixed environment, with the credibility to challenge senior regional, operations, engineering, and technical leaders while maintaining trust and partnership.
- Executive-level communication: concise risk narratives, decision-ready papers, and credibility with a senior executive audience.
- Global Travel required is expected to be up to 30%-40% but may increase over time as the business evolves.
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