Vice President, Reliability and Technical Assurance

Role Description

We are creating a new senior leadership role to build and lead Vantage’s fleetwide reliability and technical assurance capability. The function provides a stronger central mechanism for understanding reliability risk, validating critical controls, 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.

• 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 and the evidence model for critical controls.
• Lead technical assurance, inspection, and critical control verification.
• Drive corrective action and closed-loop learning.
• Foster transparent reporting and accountable learning.
• Develop the roadmap for configuration and automation drift detection.
• Establish executive reporting and governance.
• Set and govern global operational standards, performance, and risk.
• Build and lead the function.

Qualifications

• 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, engineering assurance, 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 and converting findings into practical corrective actions.
• Experience building governance or assurance systems that drive operational improvement rather than reporting alone.
• Credible field presence: comfortable with site walks, control rooms, methods of procedure, maintenance realities, and difficult technical conversations.
• The ability to operate through influence in a matrixed environment.
• Executive-level communication: concise risk narratives, decision-ready papers, and credibility with a senior executive audience.
• Global Travel required is expected to be up to 30%-40% but may increase over time.

Requirements

• Hyperscale data center or colocation operations experience.
• Experience in adjacent high-reliability sectors — utilities, power generation, aviation, semiconductor manufacturing, oil and gas, nuclear, pharmaceuticals, or advanced manufacturing.
• Familiarity with operational technology, BMS and SCADA, alarm quality, configuration management, and telemetry.
• Experience building or scaling a new function in a high-growth environment.
• Professional engineering qualification or equivalent technical credibility.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $250,000-$270,000 Base + Bonus.
• This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.
• Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including your qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience.