Vice President, Reliability and Technical Assurance

Vantage Data Centers

VP of Reliability and Technical Assurance at Vantage Data Centers building fleetwide reliability and technical assurance capability. Leading efforts across global operations standards and performance visibility.

Posted 7/12/2026full-timeDenver • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $250,000 - $270,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in reliability engineering, operational assurance, and risk management within mission-critical environments. Capable of leading cross-functional teams to drive operational improvement, establish governance frameworks, and ensure compliance with global operational standards.

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Reliability EngineeringOperational AssuranceRisk-Based InspectionExecutive-Level CommunicationGovernance Systems Development

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Hard Skills

Risk ManagementIncident InvestigationCorrective Action ImplementationOperational ExcellenceTechnical Assurance

Soft Skills

Influence in Matrixed EnvironmentCredible Field PresenceTransparent ReportingAccountable Learning

Tools & Technologies

TelemetryAI-Enabled ToolingConfiguration Management

Industry Keywords

Mission-Critical OperationsHigh-Reliability EnvironmentElectrical SystemsMechanical SystemsAutomation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Lead high-consequence independent reviews and field verification across electrical, mechanical, controls, automation, emergency response, and commissioning.
Drive corrective action and closed-loop learning.
Translate incidents, near misses, and weak signals into structured learning.
Maintain a risk-ranked corrective action register.
Ensure validated lessons feed into the standards, 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 operational intelligence.
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 drift detection.
As capability matures, AI-enabled tooling may help identify anomalies, drift, and candidate corrective actions for review.
Establish executive reporting and governance.
Set the operating cadence with Operations.
Prepare concise monthly executive reporting that drives decisions, not reporting theater.
Provide portfolio-level visibility into operational performance, risk, and trends through standardized metrics and reporting frameworks.
Distinguish site 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 standards framework and associated policies.
Establish portfolio-wide KPIs, metrics, and reporting frameworks that provide clear visibility into operational performance, reliability risk, and emerging trends.
Roll up fleetwide performance and risk into executive-level insights that distinguish local execution issues from systemic patterns.
Audit compliance with standards, identify systemic gaps and portfolio-wide improvement opportunities, and drive consistency, governance, accountability, and continuous improvement across regions.
Build and lead the function. Hold owned budget and the authority to build a focused direct team, operating through a wider cross-functional assurance network rather than a parallel organization.
Exercise formal authority within the remit — require evidence, set assurance scope and cadence, conduct reviews and inspections, own the central corrective action register, require management responses, and require deviations from critical controls to be explicit, risk-ranked, time-bound, approved, and visible — escalating findings directly to the Executive Leadership Team, in partnership with regional teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 — not solely an executive-reporting leader.
The ability to operate through influence in a matrixed environment, with the credibility to challenge senior regional, operations, engineering, and technical leaders while maintaining trust and partnership.
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 as the business evolves.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
many other additional voluntary benefits