[Hiring] Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure @Volta

Role Description

Reporting to the Regional Data Centre Operations Director, EMEA, the Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure will lead the deployment, operation and continuous improvement of IT infrastructure across Volta's AI factories in EMEA. You will oversee highly available, secure and scalable compute, network and facilities-adjacent technology services across multiple data centre campuses.

• Own the deployment, operation, maintenance and lifecycle management of large-scale data centre IT infrastructure across EMEA.
• Lead infrastructure operations across compute, storage, networking and platform services, as designed by Volta's CTO organisation.
• Define standards for resilient, secure and repeatable infrastructure deployments.
• Ensure Volta's IT infrastructure and site teams, both insourced and outsourced, are ready to support high-availability services.
• Partner with the CTO architecture team, operations engineering, security, facilities and product teams to align infrastructure capabilities with business requirements.
• Oversee Volta's providers and integrators, holding them to strict KPIs and making sure customer SLAs are fully met.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 10 or more years' experience in IT infrastructure, data centre operations, cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, network engineering or a related discipline.
• Several years managing technical teams and leading large-scale IT infrastructure operations or transformation programmes.
• A track record of operating business-critical or mission-critical infrastructure at enterprise or hyperscale.
• Strong knowledge of data centre technologies, including servers, storage, networking and monitoring.
• Experience of disaster recovery, capacity planning, incident management and change management.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Excellent written, verbal, analytical and organisational skills.
• Able to take part in or oversee an on-call and major incident response rota.

Requirements

• Experience in hyperscale cloud, colocation, internet service provider, telecoms or large enterprise data centre environments.
• Managing IT infrastructure across multiple regions, countries or geographically distributed sites.
• Public cloud platforms and hybrid or multi-cloud operating models.
• Knowledge of data centre facilities interfaces, including power, cooling, environmental monitoring, physical security and structured cabling.
• IT service management frameworks, reliability engineering, and ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST or similar control frameworks.
• Relevant certifications such as ITIL, CISSP, CCNP, PMP, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or equivalent.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary.
• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success.
• Retirement/pension contributions.
• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.