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Directeur Exploitation Datacenters – Infrastructures Critiques (H/F)
Is@talent
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Paris, France
Experience
3 years
Job description
Lead data center operations across multiple sites in the Paris region, ensuring infrastructure availability, service continuity and reliability while managing site managers and central expert teams.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Paris, France
- Languages
- French – fluent, English – professional
What you'll do
- Build a short- and medium-term operational roadmap defining priorities, action plans and human and financial resources.
- Define and harmonize operational management methods across all sites.
- Consolidate and evolve KPIs and dashboards on infrastructure availability, maintenance, client communication and procedure compliance.
- Analyze results, identify performance gaps and drive corrective actions.
- Produce structured reporting for management and inform strategic decisions.
- Manage and support site managers in running their activities and developing their skills.
- Organize resource allocation and monitor workload plans.
- Support the reorganization of the scope, harmonize practices and help integrate new sites.
- Guarantee availability, resilience and operational continuity of critical infrastructures.
- Supervise preventive, corrective and regulatory maintenance as well as works, extensions, retrofits and changes in live environments.
- Consolidate the operational and technical risk map, including single points of failure and critical obsolescence.
- Prioritize risks, define treatment plans, assess financial and human impacts and identify necessary investments.
- Lead major incidents, escalations, root cause analyses and follow-up of corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure compliance with contractual commitments, SLAs and client quality standards.
- Develop a constructive partnership relationship with maintenance providers and coordinate interventions.
- Prepare and monitor OPEX and CAPEX budgets for the scope.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, environmental, HSE, ICPE and applicable ISO requirements.
- Contribute to improving energy performance of installations, notably PUE, and controlling operating costs.
What we're looking for
- Higher education, ideally a Bac+5 engineering degree or specialized master's in electrical, energy, climate engineering, industrial maintenance or operations management.
- Significant experience in operations, maintenance or technical management of critical infrastructures.
- Significant experience managing managers, multi-site management or a comparable operational responsibility role.
- Proven experience in a 24/7 critical environment with strong availability, safety and compliance requirements.
- Experience in major incident management, budget management, risk management and operational transformation.
- Good command of data center operational challenges and understanding of electrical, mechanical, HVAC, fire protection, BMS and control system architectures.
- Mastery of preventive, corrective and regulatory maintenance management.
- Knowledge of SLAs, availability, capacity, quality of service and energy performance KPIs.
- Mastery of OPEX/CAPEX budget issues and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Leadership and ability to manage experienced managers.
- Technical credibility and sense of responsibility.
- Ability to structure an organization, harmonize practices and lead change.
- Decision-making, arbitration and prioritization skills.
- Composure in crisis situations, rigor and results orientation.
- Customer sense and ability to build lasting partnership relationships.
- Fluent French and professional English, spoken and written.
Nice to have
- A technical Bac+3 may be considered given particularly solid experience.