Senior Manager, Facility Operations

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, sophisticated infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ consecutive quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have built the largest, most active global ecosystem of nearly 10,000 companies, including 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and IT service providers in over 26 countries spanning five continents.

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in multifaceted directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. That is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

The Senior Manager, IBX Facility Operations manages supervisors, managers, and multiple IBX sites. Leads in project management and incident resolution.

**What you will be doing**
- Manages supervisors and managers;
- Manages team to work safely, effectively and with high regard to human error avoidance;
- Manages personnel details to include salaries, positioning, hire/fire, reviews, coaching and development;
- Overall site and/or multi-site capacity management;
- Plans, coordinates, approves budgets, and implements resources to complete projects and maintenance within the Data Center;
- Manages the team to ensure completion to Equinix's required standards, (KPI's) Keky Performance Indicators and (SLA's) Service Level Agreements;
- Ensures correct processes are followed and all documentation is complete;
- Takeover of new builds and building infrastructure;
- Approves all (MOP) Maintenance Operation Protocol scripts and permits;
- Participates as part of the new facility/infrastructure design team;
- Communicates and coordinates activities and on-site staff during a complex or severe customer-impacting incident;
- Drives root cause analysis and provides a clear direction;
- Drives approval for incident resolution;
- Provides the team with technical support and advice on complex escalations;
- Acts as (SME) Subject Matter Expert and leads team members' training;
- Reviews specialist contractual reports and activities;
- Reviews and analyzes key reports from vendors as part of RCA investigation;
- Oversees the sites in the maintenance and up keeping of all IBX infrastructure according to Equinix global standards;
- Makes recommendations based on knowledge;
- Oversees that all repairs performed on all IBX infrastructure are according to the manufacturer’s guidelines and best practices;
- Leads root cause analysis and repair of failed components;
- Makes recommendations for eliminating potential problems;
- Liaises with regional and/or global construction or design teams on design changes;
- Completion of site logs and issuing of permits, such as MOPs and scripts;
- Leads others with work requests and circuit installations;
- Performs capacity management.
**What we’ll expect from you**
- Bachelors degree in Engineering;
- Proven track record managing a critical mission operation, especially in data center environment;
- Strong leadership and people management skills;
- Strong experience managing vendors and cross functional teams;
- Proficiency in Portuguese and English is mandatory with strong presentation and facilitation skills; Proficiency in Spanish is preferred.
- Highly organized, with attention to detail and a dedication to resolving issues.
**Why Equinix**

The opportunity to be part of the digital transformation in the world in a company that was elected by the employees as the best places to work by Glassdoor and it´s is GPTW for several consecutive years.

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.