Sr Director, Data Center Infrastructure Management, Intelligence & Controls

Commendations

The Senior Director, Data Center Intelligence & Controls oversees critical systems, data, and controls that ensure the performance and resilience of Flexential's data centers. This role requires hands-on leadership and a deep understanding of MEP systems, telemetry, and DCIM.

About the role

This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role where you will stabilize and build a resilient function, ensuring accurate data, strong teams, and a robust operational foundation for Flexential's data center fleet.

Responsibilities

• Own the system of record for capacity, assets, power topology, and facility state, keeping it accurate and trusted across operations, engineering, sales, and finance.

• Establish telemetry standards, point naming, and data-quality governance, and grade data health to prevent revenue loss or bad decisions.

• Unify the configuration management database and integrate disconnected systems toward a single source of operational truth.

• Manage capacity planning, forecasting, and optimization across power, space, and cooling, including utility load-ramp forecasts.

• Support the deal with data by running technical design reviews, cage plots, and density-feasibility analysis.

• Take ownership of building automation and controls, set standards for sequences of operation and alarm management, and tune the mechanical and electrical environment for reliability and efficiency.

• Run branch-circuit monitoring, environmental monitoring, and power-data acquisition, ensuring every usage-based site is fully instrumented before customer turn-up.

• Drive the program to close remaining metering and monitoring gaps, treating data integrity as a revenue-protection function.

• Own the data behind PUE-based billing, usage, PUE, and rate, with anomaly detection, variance flagging, and reconstruction methods that prevent revenue leakage.

• Identify risk in the data using operational data and modeling, including redundancy and failover modeling (N+1, 2N), to identify risk early and route clear, prioritized actions to teams.

• Document and cross-train so the function’s knowledge is well-distributed across the team, and partner across Facilities, Engineering, Construction, Sales, Product, IT, and Finance.

Requirements

• Hands-on leadership of controls, BAS, DCIM, capacity engineering, or telemetry teams in mission-critical environments.

• Deep, practical command of BAS and controls, telemetry, and DCIM; ability to read trend logs, one-lines, and capacity models.

• Working knowledge of colocation capacity mechanics: reserves, utilization, and PUE-based billing.

• Experience with DCIM and branch-circuit and environmental monitoring, and integrating systems over BACnet, Modbus, and SNMP.

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of MEP systems, switchgear, UPS, generators, chillers, CRAH and CRAC units, and their behavior under load and during failover.

• Record of inheriting complex environments and leaving them measurably better, with cleaner data, calmer floors, and stronger teams, plus credibility with frontline technicians and shift leads.

Benefits

Base Pay Range: Annualized/Hourly salary range offered for this position is estimated to be $195,000 - $235,000. However, the actual pay range depends on each candidate’s experience, location, and qualifications.

Variable Pay: Discretionary annual bonus, based on personal and company performance.

Benefits of working at Flexential include Medical, Telehealth, Dental and Vision, 401(k) Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Life and AD&D, Short Term and Long-Term disability, Flex Paid Time Off (PTO), Leave of Absence, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness Program, Rewards and Recognition Program.