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Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure and Operations (MCIO) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a Critical Environment Operations Manager, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters in 32 countries and millions of servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide. With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Job Responsibility:
Clarifies and refines strategic vision to communicate to their teams and drives alignment of operational strategies with a security-first culture
Brings suggestions including security enhancement to local management team and/or global leaders or partners
Reviews Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance indicators (KPIs) and provides input to improve or make KPIs and OKRs more efficient/effective
Understands key business drivers and where Data Center Operations (DCOPS) feeds into business success
Understands connections between different organizations and their related initiatives
Suggests or recommends risk-based decisions or escalates based on what is best for business and strategy, and without all the data
Frames DCOPs challenges in context of business expectations and drives business context
Understands key financial metrics, understands how to grow an organization, and exhibits a One Microsoft mentality
May change course and strategically delegates tasks
Influences guidelines that to ensure they are consistent with contractual service agreements and security standards
Holds team or organization accountable for ensuring third party compliance with Microsoft security, safety, and all other guidelines
Holds team or organization accountable for abiding by all service level agreements (SLAs)
Evaluates and implements policy updates to enhance security posture across operations
Holds team or organization accountable for investigating root cause of policy faults, degradation, and security incidents and suggests improvement plans
Holds team accountable for policy plan improvements with focus on maturity and lowering costs
Drives alignment on dependencies, supplier contracts, success metrics, resource readiness, operational, supportability, and manageability criteria
Ensures audits, global and regional initiatives, and third-party guidelines are upheld
Drives accountability with landlord to adhere to MSFT service-level agreement
Advocates, follows, and adheres to processes and policy(ies) provided by security and safety governing partners
Reports immediately any safety or security issues or concerns
Ensures Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes are followed when required
Makes recommendations for improvements to safety and security processes or procedures
Empowers and ensures team fosters and exhibits a culture of safety
Ensures no unauthorized or unescorted personnel access secured production environments, ensuring alignment with security practices and standards
Oversees and drives completion and validation of physical access list audits of personnel accessing secured production environments and related systems
Defines, specifies, and maintains physical space groupings for physical access across varying production environments
Manages non-compliance as needed, in collaboration with key stakeholders
Conducts regular reviews with health, safety, and security business partners
Evaluates regular security risk assessments of data center operations and prioritizes and aligns the design, build, and delivery of technology, tools, data, and processes to meet high security standards
Defines and communicates security Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across teams and resolves complex action items
Demonstrates conscientiousness on cost, adheres to budget requirements, and regularly employs sound fiscal strategies to reduce costs or improve fiscal efficiency from best practices
Seeks input from team members or subject matter discipline experts as required to meet timely and accurate targets for budget allocation
Monitors employee's Purchase Orders (POs) and oversees team and organization After-the-Fact (ATFs) if present
Supports annual budget planning and forecasting exercises
Forecasts demand costs, drives awareness among business leaders on the business implications of service management issues, and negotiates with business leaders to win resources to ensure that the long-term value of the service is maintained
Works with the cost model and reporting system to enable the forecasting, tracking, reporting of costs, security and operational risks, and dependencies for a significant portion of the country or region
Articulates level of importance on priorities needed to maintain availability expectations
Adjusts plans based on assigned financial spend for the year
Plans and works with business partners on executing their requirements to maintain adherence to data center availability, security, and safety across their geographic scope
Approves or implements identified opportunities for cost reduction and efficiency
Assigns tasks and resources in alignment with other teams in the organization
Validates technical dependency and gap analysis to verify readiness for IT projects and ensures that technical dependencies are managed
Ensures that resources and team capabilities are consistent with expected service standards
Leads their team and champions broader efforts across the organization to achieve service requirements and service level agreements (SLAs)/operational level agreements (OLAs) for multiple services
Influences business partners to adopt solutions that optimize cost and business need
Understands and influences tooling mechanisms to manage resources and prioritizes the need to ensure critical roles within teams are appropriately staffed and developed
Ensures priorities are assigned based on business impact, manages accountabilities within and between teams, and makes appropriate tradeoffs
Focuses on team morale and recognizes team wins
Understands and drives changes which impact the work of others and proactively shares relevant information to enable continued workflow efficiency(ies)
Participates in change advisory board (CAB) meetings
Drives change adherence and implementation completely in accordance with documented procedures, accurately, and in a timely manner
Drives business changes across the organization with clearly articulated plans and direction that ensure smooth implementation and minimize disruptions to the business
Proactively monitors the internal and external environment to anticipate opportunities to support or improve incoming changes or projects
Applies change management principles (e.g., PROSCI vs. ITIL) and guides their teams and organization during times of change with appropriate methodology(ies)
If not already covered by other roles, drives and/or delivers release management overviews, meetings, or conversations with their team or organization to support understanding of broad-level change(s)
Provides strategic guidance to teams on assessing the security implications of planned changes and drives implementation of mitigation strategies to ensure any identified risks are addressed before implementation
Delegates to promote growth and development of future leaders
Finds opportunities for collaboration across groups in the division, ensures that cross-team commitments are set, and achieves scale in their work efforts by enabling the work of others
Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles
Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn
Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others
Drives the analyses of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and provides direction to address observed trends or anomalies
Leads key processes, such as team and triage meetings, prioritizes work across the team, and rebalances priorities to respond to changes
Reviews contracts with landlords and third-party vendors, ensuring alignment with security needs and standards
Participates in regular operational meetings to review OKRs and/or KPIs
Analyzes data and collaborates with and influences internal business partners, clients, and vendors to improve OKRs and/or KPIs and increase efficiency
Identifies discrepancies in data and reports observations and partners with groups as needed to resolve improvement observations
Leverages data and analytics to determine, recommend, and secure needs for resources to deliver to OKRs
Drives stakeholder and cross functional partnerships
Develops, grows, and leverages relationships with clients and suppliers to ensure that all expectations and operational, safety, and security requirements are clarified, understood, documented, and met
Communicates with clients and partners
Works with regional support teams to implement changes (e.g., regional or global initiatives like process improvement, safety, compliance, security, engineering, tooling)
Makes connections and builds network for teams as needed
Sets example and empowers teams to work collaboratively
Proactively identifies potential cross function engagement issues and mitigates accordingly
Works with business partners to establish a collaborative process to enable understanding of business partners' areas of expertise
Effectively engages across cross functional teams and makes connections and builds network for teams as needed
Empowers teams to work collaboratively and creates visibility to help other teams succeed with regional/global management team
Holds external partners accountable to Microsoft’s security standards
Manages multiple complex technologies projects or programs across multiple disciplines to meet service delivery Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Manages resources appropriately to accommodate pilot programs and task force participation
Supports and removes obstacles or escalates to appropriate stakeholders within partner teams
Champions a security-oriented perspective in escalation procedures to safeguard infrastructure integrity
Sets criteria and requirements for service execution tooling standards and identifies and drives the adoption of a standard toolsets across multiple service teams
Promotes the adoption of security-enhancing tools and practices
Ensures information, awareness, and changes resulting from escalations are communicated throughout their team or organization as appropriate
Supports engineering organization(s) and partners as needed, or provides input to mature tooling in meeting field operations requirements
Drives adoption of approved engineering released tools and systems with their team(s) to support day-to-day operational processes and procedures and protect against current and emerging threats while providing feedback and perspectives regarding tooling performance and quality
Proactively identifies potential issues to prevent escalations, but, provides guidance in support of correct escalation of issues to appropriate owner(s) when necessary
Understands the service management perspective(s) to ensure that business leaders correctly factor the implications and risks of their decisions to effectively delivering the service
Oversees audits or risk assessments for potential security vulnerabilities or threats and provides direction on remediation plans to address findings
Provides communication and resolution to issues related to programs, projects, and incidents to drive Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) and/or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) compliance
Presents incident Post-Mortem outcomes and/or approves Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Post-Mortem reporting, including security incidents
Approves and partners with business management and finance partners to secure budget needed for identified service delivery improvements
Triages and prioritizes complex problem management scenarios while documenting and driving mitigation strategies
Leads their team to design multi-discipline service and technology solutions that reduce the risk of deployment and environmental issues prior to production release
Drives and delivers RCAs where appropriate, across multiple functions and disciplines
Drives an organization and team culture of continual improvement to timeliness and quality response(s) to data center incidents
Manages volume, responds promptly to clients, constructively manages stress and confrontation, and approaches situations assuming positive intent
Handles uncertainties in a calm and confident manner
Forms viable working relationships with teams, partners, lessors, and stakeholders for mutually beneficial outcomes
Guides resolution of service incidents and escalates, as appropriate, to achieve applicable Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) or supporting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with minimal disruption to the client and business
Partners with others within or beyond local teams/campus/metro as needed, while directing efforts of their team to troubleshoot and resolve issues
Shares common and repeating cases or observations of service issues with regional/global support teams
Shares best practices to address and mitigate issues and reduce recurrence
Participates in, or ensures appropriate subject matter expertise participation in, applicable Incident Bridges for their workstream(s) and/or location(s)
Champions prioritizing security in daily operations and encourages teams to share best practices for implementing secure approaches to products, processes, and tools in alignment with security initiatives
Ensures that all issues are documented, tracked, discussed, and resolved with clients, suppliers, and appropriate stakeholders with consistent and complete communication
Understands and anticipates the client's business needs and maintains a dedicated client focus to improve quality and delivery of the service and security-first approach, and provide insights to improve client return on investment
Identifies trends or identifies gaps with current processes and procedures for reviewing schedules, coordinating, managing expectations, and developing alternatives when defining client solutions and develop strategies to address
Brings together diverse perspectives, technologies, and organizations as needed to proactively manage or remove risks for service delivery approach(es) and align clients to risk vs. impact decisions/tradeoffs
Drives accountability for team and organizational awareness of potential client impact of other events and issues occurring across the service (e.g. lockdowns
change management), and drives communication of potential impact to adjust plans accordingly
Communicates strategy adaptations, plans, and solutions, regarding insights about end-customer, market, and business environment changes impacting service delivery to their team(s) or organization
Supports and assists with development of end-customer presentations or briefings regarding data center incidents impacting client and end-customer services or experience
Presents to senior regional audiences
Digests data and presents to targeted audiences internally and externally (e.g., senior leaders, data center employees at all levels)
Uses basic storytelling to communicate customer impact
Represents business or area/region internally and externally
Provides strategic guidance on adapting strategies to align with evolving security needs across teams
Mentors and/or assists others within or across data center teams in learning role, process, procedures, and best practices
Drives adherence and alignment to processes for teams staying up to date on current changes (e.g., method, policy, procedure) and required implementation
Empower their team to, and seeks their own training opportunities that meet the interest of the business (e.g., performance, capability, succession planning) as well as own career goals and objectives
Evangelizes and teaches others to reach beyond existing solutions, technologies, frameworks, or structures to incorporate new ideas
Learns and applies successful strategies
Ensures and empowers their team to complete required security, corporate, and/or mandated training and shares security best practices
Drives learning and development organization(s) to evolve and deliver training portfolios across teams to meet required operational needs
Contributes to industry standards and provides thought leadership regarding new industry standards where applicable for their teams and organizations
Onboards new hires in the same role
Participates as a mentor in the mentorship program and identifies key others who can serve as mentors
Requirements:
High School Qualification or equivalent AND 6+ years experience of mission-critical service management (e.g., providing IT services, manufacturing, warehouse, retail, military, or managing physical operations in an IT and/or critical environment infrastructure) OR equivalent experience
1+ year(s) people management experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
6+ years enterprise-level experience managing large scale and complex projects/programs AND 6+ years experience in Critical Environment infrastructures (e.g., UPS, Generator, AHU) AND 6+ years experience in physical IT infrastructures (e.g., Servers, SANs, Networking, Capacity, DC Rack/Enclosures, structured cabling) AND Experience managing budget $1M+
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Telecommunications, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Management or related field
5+ years experience leading diverse, technical workforce or managing global and virtual teams