Critical Environment Program Manager

Overview

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a CO+I Critical Environment Program Manager, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform. As a group, CO+I is focused on the personal and professional development of all employees and offers trainings and opportunities including Career Rotation Programs, Diversity & Inclusion trainings and events, and professional certifications.

Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters in 32 countries and millions of servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.

With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Build working relationships with site operations, engineering, construction, vendors, safety, security, and leadership stakeholders.
• Coordinate and drive critical environment programmes, projects, audits, readiness activities, and operational improvement initiatives across Helsinki sites.
• Track actions, risks, dependencies, and milestones to ensure deliverables are completed on time and to the required standard.
• Support compliance with critical environment standards, operational policies, procedures, and site-readiness requirements.
• Coordinate CE audits, compliance verifications, and follow-up remediation actions.
• Identify operational risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure, and drive mitigation plans with the relevant teams.
• Support cost, energy efficiency, reliability, and resilience improvement initiatives.
• Prepare and maintain routine reporting on CE programme status, risks, KPIs, objectives, and improvement actions.
• Act as a coordination and escalation point for CE-related issues, ensuring the right stakeholders are engaged and actions are followed through.
• Provide input and recommendations on critical environment design, equipment, construction methods, operational readiness, and maintainability.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in datacenter, critical environment, facilities, construction, or infrastructure operations.
• Proven ability to coordinate complex, large-scale projects across multiple stakeholders, vendors, and internal teams.
• This role requires fluency in reading, writing, and conversational Finnish and English, as all business operations and stakeholder communications are conducted in these languages
• Program management skills, including planning, tracking actions, managing risks, and driving deliverables to completion.
• Ability to work effectively with operations, engineering, safety, security, and leadership.
• Good understanding of critical environment principles, operational risk, change management, and site readiness.
• You will be required to travel between sites as part of this role so a valid driver’s license will be required.

This role requires you to be on-site, and the location has limited public transport. Your own form of transport is advised.

Background Check Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

While not required, we also look for the following Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with the operation of building cooling, electrical, mechanical, and life safety systems
• Project management or relevant certification/training in project management
• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in applicable engineering field or mechanical or electrical trades

Data Center Operations Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Finland is € 65,000.00 - € 111,700.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.