Location: Bangkok, Thailand (Open to relocate any talents to Bangkok)

Industry: Data Centers

Employment Type: Full-Time, Executive Level

About the Company

Our client is an international datacenter developer and operator experiencing rapid expansion across Asia Pacific. The organization is building a modern portfolio of multimegawatt data center facilities and is establishing Bangkok as a key regional operations hub.

The company supports a mix of enterprise, cloud, and hyperscale customers and is focused on delivering highavailability, carrierneutral, highdensity environments. They are now seeking a senior operations leader to scale and standardize operations as new sites come online across the region.

Role Overview

The Vice President, Operations, APAC will oversee operational performance, engineering reliability, service delivery, and team leadership across a growing portfolio of data centers in the region. The role includes accountability for uptime, safety, vendor management, and operational readiness for new builds entering live service.

This position suits an experienced operator who has led missioncritical environments, scaled multisite teams, and implemented consistent operating frameworks in fastgrowth organizations.

Responsibilities

Lead daytoday operations across multiple APAC data center sites, ensuring consistent standards and high availability.
Own uptime, reliability, incident response, and continuous improvement of critical infrastructure and facility operations.
Oversee operational readiness for new data center launches, including staffing, training, SOPs, and commissioning handover.
Drive customer experience excellence and act as senior escalation point for operational matters.
Manage vendors, maintenance partners, contracts, and regional OPEX budgets.
Ensure strong governance across safety, security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
Build and develop multicountry operations teams, driving capability, performance, and succession.
Contribute to regional strategy, operational planning, and scalable processes across the APAC portfolio.

Requirements

15+ years of missioncritical operations experience, with significant tenure in data center operations.
Demonstrated leadership of multisite or regional operations teams.
Deep technical knowledge of power, cooling, BMS/controls, and critical infrastructure environments.
Strong background in incident response, risk management, SLA governance, and operational compliance.
Experience managing commissioning and operational readiness for new data centers.
Proven ability to work crossfunctionally in fastscaling, highgrowth organizations.
Strong commercial acumen and budget ownership experience.
Excellent communication skills; English fluency required. Thai language is advantageous.

Preferred Background

Leadership experience in colocation, hyperscale cloud DC operations, telecom data centers, or missioncritical engineering environments.
Experience in Southeast Asia or broader APAC markets.

If you are interested, please apply with your latest English CV. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Contact: Keith Ng (Lic. No R2093574 / EA No. 16S8194)

VP Operations, Data Centers APAC (Open to Relocation)