Director of Infrastructure at Cologix – Columbus, Ohio

About the Position

We’re looking for a Director of Infrastructure to define and lead how critical electrical and mechanical systems are designed, scaled, and governed across our data center platform.

This is a high-impact, enterprise-level role—not a site operations position. You’ll set the standards for redundancy, capacity, safety, and infrastructure risk, ensuring our environments are built and operated with consistency, resilience, and long-term intent. If you’ve led in mission-critical environments and want to shape how infrastructure is governed—not just operated—this role is built for that.

Own the strategy behind mission-critical infrastructure at scale.

• Own and govern enterprise infrastructure strategy, standards, and long-term direction for electrical and mechanical systems across data center locations
• Define redundancy philosophy, reliability targets, maintenance standards, and infrastructure risk posture to ensure consistency across sites
• Own infrastructure lifecycle and capacity planning, including refresh cycles, load assumptions, margin policies, and expansion sequencing to support sustainable growth
• Lead enterprise vendor governance and performance for critical infrastructure providers, including OEM relationships and service standards
• Establish safety, compliance, and energy efficiency frameworks, ensuring alignment with reliability, sustainability, and regulatory requirements
• Provide final approval for major infrastructure decisions, including customer solutions, high-density deployments, and non-standard configurations
• Partner cross-functionally and review systemic risks and performance trends to drive enterprise alignment and corrective action
• Engage, when required, in service assurance/outage mitigation process as an escalation point.

• You’ve led mission-critical infrastructure in data centers or similar environments
• You understand redundancy, capacity, and reliability at a systems level—not just component level
• You’re comfortable owning standards, risk decisions, and long-term direction
• You make sound calls under pressure and can balance uptime, cost, and growth
• You know how to influence across teams without creating confusion in ownership

Leadership Profile

• Sets the bar for infrastructure standards and holds teams accountable to them
• Brings both technical credibility and strategic clarity
• Aligns teams without overreaching into site-level execution
• Builds strong, capable infrastructure organizations
• Uses data and trends to drive decisions—not assumptions

What Success Looks Like

• Redundancy standards and infrastructure risk posture are clearly defined, consistently applied, and protected across all locations
• Capacity and lifecycle planning are accurate, forward-looking, and aligned with growth and long-term resilience
• Infrastructure decisions reflect deliberate governance rather than reactive or site-specific variation
• Vendors perform to defined standards with strong accountability and minimal systemic risk
• Safety, compliance, and efficiency frameworks are consistent, audit-ready, and sustainably improving performance
• Infrastructure teams are structured with the right depth and leadership to support scale and reliability

Qualifications

• 10+ years in mission-critical facilities, data centers, or similar environments
• 5+ years in leadership roles with multi-site or enterprise scope
• Strong knowledge of electrical and mechanical infrastructure (UPS, generators, cooling, etc.)
• Experience with capacity planning, infrastructure standards, and vendor management
• Solid understanding of safety, compliance, and risk in critical environments
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and executive stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)