IT Global Data Center Manager

We strongly prefer candidates who are currently located in or near the designated job location. Candidates outside the area should apply only if they are committed to relocating prior to their start date and have the legal right to work in the job location. Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. We are looking for a Manager / Senior Manager, Global Data Center Operations to own the day-to-day performance, capacity, and strategic direction of three engineering data centers located in India, Minnesota, and Sacramento. This role combines deep, hands-on technical knowledge of data center hardware and networking with the operational discipline to standardize processes across regions, the financial acumen to manage a capital budget, and the leadership skills to build and develop a distributed, high-performing team. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable racking a server, designing a network topology, defending a capex request, setting expectations with developers, and coaching a site lead. HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE Hardware & Infrastructure Management Maintain deep, hands-on knowledge of server, storage, and rack-level hardware across all three sites, including specification, installation, lifecycle management, and end-of-life planning. Oversee capacity planning, power and cooling utilization, and physical infrastructure standards to ensure consistent uptime and reliability across all data centers. Partner with vendors and OEMs on hardware procurement, warranty support, OEM roadmaps, and refresh cycles. Solutioning & Technical Design Design and evaluate infrastructure solutions that balance performance, cost, resiliency, and scalability for engineering workloads across all three data centers. Serve as a technical escalation point working with other team members for complex infrastructure issues, driving root-cause analysis and long-term remediation. Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where it improves reliability, efficiency, or cost. Engage directly with R&D customers to understand workload requirements, prioritize infrastructure needs, and ensure data center solutions align with engineering priorities. Networking Have good understanding of the networking architecture connecting and supporting the three data centers, including LAN/WAN, switching, routing, and security segmentation. Bring practical SAN and storage-networking knowledge, including Fibre Channel/iSCSI concepts, zoning, multipathing, throughput, latency, and redundancy considerations that support high-performance engineering workloads. Understand how compute, storage, and network layers interact in a data center environment, with the ability to partner across SAN, network, virtualization, and platform teams to troubleshoot performance and connectivity issues. Collaborate with security and network engineering teams on design reviews, incident response, and customer requirements. Process Development & Continuous Improvement Build and standardize operational processes, runbooks, and change management procedures across all three sites to drive consistency and reduce risk. Establish and record metrics and KPIs to track data center health, incident trends, and team performance; use data to drive continuous improvement. Champion a culture of process discipline while remaining flexible to regional