Data Center Project Manager

Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a CO+I Data Center Project Manager,you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform.

Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters in 32 countries and millions of servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.

With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Asemployees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Leads end-to-end datacenter program and site operations across the Chicago Metro, with a primary focus on facilities management.
• Ensures that facilities infrastructure and operational programs are executed safely, on schedule, and aligned with capacity and availability requirements.
• Owns vendor management and performance for facilities operations, driving accountability to SLAs, coordinating maintenance execution, and ensuring consistent delivery across both owned and leased sites.
• Actively influences vendor staffing, performance management, and escalation handling to meet evolving metro operational needs.
• Oversees capital projects and facilities infrastructure delivery, including retrofits, customizations, installations, building improvements, and space planning initiatives.
• Ensures cross-functional alignment and timely execution of new capacity delivery across multiple sites and stakeholder groups with a focus on facilities management.
• Drives operational excellence and oversight through effective incident management and daily coordination, partnering with CE, IT, Logistics, and Site Services teams to triage issues, mitigate risk, and maintain facilities across the campus without impacting uptime.
• Leads safety, compliance, and risk management efforts across facilities operations, ensuring adherence to EHS standards, OSHA requirements, and Microsoft policies while reinforcing vendor and team accountability for safe execution.
• Serves as the interface between Microsoft and external partners, coordinating facility-related issues-such as repairs, infrastructure conditions, and external property impacts-and driving resolution through vendors and third parties.
• Drives continuous improvement and operational scaling across the metro by managing Opex and Capex investments, optimizing maintenance delivery models, and ensuring facilities readiness to support growth, deployments, and evolving datacenter requirements.

Capabilities important to success include:

• Operational Planning & Project Management:Show structured thinking, planning, andtheability toexecute by working through others, influencing without authority, and dealing with ambiguity
• Exceptional written and Interpersonal skills: Communicate effectively and concisely with stakeholders, senior managers, and leaders about our programs and objectives
• Customer/Stakeholder Focus: Gather stakeholder impressions of services and programs, integrating this feedback into decision making. Allocate and align resources to optimize the stakeholder and partner experience
• Performance Goal and Standards Setting: Develop and communicate to realistic timelines via plans that consider potential obstacles and immediate + long-term consequences
• Understand datacenter business objectives: Critically review multiple plans and adjust as needed. Proactively communicate and address necessary trade-offs
• Flexibility and Adaptability: Regularly scan the environment to help anticipate changes that could affect key programs and projects. Effectively changes plans, goals, actions or priorities to respond to changing situations
• Team Player: Ability to both contribute strategically to this relatively new team and support strategic decisions once debate is over
• Embody our culture and values

Required/minimum qualifications

Background Check Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.

While not required, we also look for the following Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ Years' experience in a 24x7x365 production environment or related experience
• 3+ Years' experience in datacenter processes and tooling or related experience
• 3+ Years' experience in change control processes
• Technical College degree or certification in Computer Science, Math, Telecommunications, Electrical- or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent work experience

Data Center Operations Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,600 - $202,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,500 - $225,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.