Data Center Manager at Kyndryl in Jakarta

Job description

Who We Are At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world’s leading businesses. We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people—Kyndryls—that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive. The Role Your Role At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage, and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. As a Data Center Manager , you will lead the day-to-day operations of a high-density AI and GPU data center environment, ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of the critical infrastructure that powers next-generation AI workloads. You will be responsible for the safe and efficient operation of mission-critical facilities, including electrical power systems, HVAC infrastructure, liquid cooling environments, CDUs, environmental monitoring platforms, and supporting facilities operations. Working closely with infrastructure engineering, AI platform teams, vendors, and OEM partners, you will lead operational excellence across a 24x7 environment while ensuring the highest standards of safety, compliance, and service delivery. This is a leadership role for an experienced data center professional who thrives in highly available environments and is passionate about building resilient operations that support cutting-edge AI technologies. What You'll Do Lead the 24x7 operations of mission-critical AI and GPU data center facilities, ensuring infrastructure availability, reliability, and operational excellence. Oversee critical electrical, mechanical, HVAC, CDU, liquid cooling, and environmental monitoring systems supporting high-density computing environments. Manage and develop facilities operations teams, providing leadership, coaching, performance management, and operational direction. Lead incident management, escalation response, service restoration activities, and post-incident reviews to minimize business impact and drive continuous improvement. Manage preventive maintenance programs, change management activities, operational readiness reviews, and infrastructure lifecycle planning. Monitor and manage power, cooling, and space utilization while maintaining appropriate capacity, redundancy, and growth planning strategies. Coordinate with GPU operations teams, infrastructure engineering teams, OEM vendors, facilities partners, and service providers to ensure seamless service delivery. Drive compliance with operational procedures, environmental standards, safety requirements, regulatory obligations, and industry best practices. Manage vendor performance, service-level agreements (SLAs), contracts, and operational deliverables to ensure business and customer expectations are met. Identify operational risks, develop mitigation strategies, and implement continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen service resilience and operational efficiency. Your Future at Kyndryl At Kyndryl, your career path is yours to define. As a Data Center Manager supporting AI infrastructure, you will help shape the future of large-scale GPU environments and next-generation technology platforms. You'll work alongside industry-leading engineers, technology partners, and operations leaders while gaining exposure to advanced AI infrastructure, liquid cooling technologies, high-performance computing environments, and hyperscale operational practices. Whether your future goal is site leadership, regional operations management, service delivery leadership, or infrastructure management, Kyndryl provides the opportunities, learning, and support to help you grow. Who You Are You’re good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important, yo