Vice President Reliability Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Vantage powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Position Overview

We are creating a new senior leadership role to build and lead Vantage's fleetwide reliability and technical assurancecapability. The function provides a stronger central mechanism for understanding reliability risk, validating criticalcontrols, learning from incidents, and converting those lessons into durable improvements across the operating fleet. Its purpose is to set, govern, and assure global operations standards, performance, and risk across the portfolio.

The function owns portfolio-wide operational standards, governance, performance visibility, and operational risk. Itprovides a common framework for measuring operational performance, identifying systemic risks and trends, anddriving consistency, accountability, and continuous improvement across regions while preserving regional ownershipof day-to-day operations.

The role complements regional Operations and Reliability Engineering teams, who remain accountable for live siteoperations, incident command, maintenance, and customer operational delivery. It provides central assurance, expertchallenge, practical support, cross-region learning, and a structured route to escalate systemic risks and investmentneeds to the Executive Leadership Team.

The orienting lens is customer impact. Across a large and varied operating fleet, the function applies proportionate,risk-based assurance - concentrating effort where customer commitments and operating reputation are mostmaterial, rather than uniformly across technical risk.

This is a build mandate. The successful candidate will shape the function from the ground up with executivesponsorship, formal authority within its remit, owned budget for a focused direct team, and direct visibility to theExecutive Leadership Team.

This role will ideally be based in Denver, Colorado or London, England.

Essential Job Functions

Establish the fleetwide reliability baseline and risk model. Build the common reliability and resilience baseline.Define a risk-ranking method that leads with customer-impacting risk. Stand up the recurring assurance cycle andthe evidence model for critical controls.

Lead technical assurance, inspection, and critical control verification. Lead high-consequence independentreviews and field verification across electrical, mechanical, controls, automation, emergency response, andcommissioning.

Drive corrective action and closed-loop learning. Translate incidents, near misses, and weak signals intostructured learning. Maintain a risk-ranked corrective action register. Ensure validated lessons feed into thestandards, procedures, telemetry, supplier requirements, training, and capital plans that apply across the fleet.

Foster transparent reporting and accountable learning. Build an environment in which honest errors, near misses,and weak signals are surfaced early, and frontline teams are treated as a primary source of operationalintelligence.

Develop the roadmap for configuration and automation drift detection. Partner with Product, Automation, IT,and Cybersecurity on requirements for telemetry, alarm quality, configuration management, and AI-enabled driftdetection. As capability matures, AI-enabled tooling may help identify anomalies, drift, and candidate correctiveactions for review.

Establish executive reporting and governance. Set the operating cadence with Operations. Prepare concisemonthly executive reporting that drives decisions, not reporting theater. Provide portfolio-level visibility intooperational performance, risk, and trends through standardized metrics and reporting frameworks. Distinguishsite execution issues from systemic patterns, standards gaps, supplier issues, and investment constraints.

Set and govern global operational standards, performance, and risk. Own the global operational standardsframework and associated policies. Establish portfolio-wide KPIs, metrics, and reporting frameworks that provideclear visibility into operational performance, reliability risk, and emerging trends. Roll up fleetwide performanceand risk into executive-level insights that distinguish local execution issues from systemic patterns. Auditcompliance with standards, identify systemic gaps and portfolio-wide improvement opportunities, and driveconsistency, governance, accountability, and continuous improvement across regions.

Build and lead the function. Hold owned budget and the authority to build a focused direct team, operatingthrough a wider cross-functional assurance network rather than a parallel organization. Exercise formal authoritywithin the remit - require evidence, set assurance scope and cadence, conduct reviews and inspections, own thecentral corrective action register, require management responses, and require deviations from critical controls tobe explicit, risk-ranked, time-bound, approved, and visible - escalating findings directly to the ExecutiveLeadership Team, in partnership with regional teams.

Additional Duties as assigned by Management.

Job Requirements

15+ years in mission-critical operations, reliability engineering, operational assurance, critical facilities,industrial operations, process safety, or another high-reliability environment.

Demonstrated experience leading reliability, technical assurance, operational excellence, engineeringassurance, or risk-based inspection across a complex operating fleet.

Strong working understanding of mission-critical electrical, mechanical, controls, automation,commissioning, maintenance, and operating procedure environments.

Experience investigating incidents, near misses, recurring defects, or systemic reliability issues andconverting findings into practical corrective actions.

Experience building governance or assurance systems that drive operational improvement rather thanreporting alone.

Credible field presence: comfortable with site walks, control rooms, methods of procedure, maintenancerealities, and difficult technical conversations - not solely an executive-reporting leader.

The ability to operate through influence in a matrixed environment, with the credibility to challengesenior regional, operations, engineering, and technical leaders while maintaining trust and partnership.

Executive-level communication: concise risk narratives, decision-ready papers, and credibility with asenior executive audience.

Global Travel required is expected to be up to 30%-40% but may increase over time as the businessevolves.

Preferred

Hyperscale data center or colocation operations experience.

Experience in adjacent high-reliability sectors - utilities, power generation, aviation, semiconductormanufacturing, oil and gas, nuclear, pharmaceuticals, or advanced manufacturing.

Familiarity with operational technology, BMS and SCADA, alarm quality, configuration management, andtelemetry.

Experience building or scaling a new function in a high-growth environment.

Professional engineering qualification or equivalent technical credibility.

Why This Matters

This is an unusual platform: a function created from the ground up, with executive sponsorship, formal authoritywithin its remit, and direct impact on customer outcomes and operating reputation. The role will establish theoperating system that governs standards, performance visibility, and operational risk across a rapidly growingglobal portfolio, reinforcing Vantage's values of trust, accountability, respect, and agility.

Physical Demands and Special Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfullyperform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals withdisabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handleor feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee mustoccasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Additional Details

Salary Range: $250,000-$270,000 Base + Bonus (this range is based on Colorado market data and mayvary in other locations)

This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, andvision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employeeassistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many otheradditional voluntary benefits.

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including your qualifications,skills, competencies, and experience and may fall outside of the range shown.

We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other's strengths and respecting each other's weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations.

Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.

Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

Vantage is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Vantage does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm agencies. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of Vantage.

We'll be accepting applications for at least one week from the date this role is posted. If you're interested, we encourage you to apply soon-we're excited to find the right person and will keep the role open until we do!