Power Harvesting Program Manager

**Power Harvesting Program Manager**:
Zürich, Switzerland

Date posted

**Aug 26, 2025**
- Job number

**1863071**
- Work site

**Microsoft on-site only**
- Travel

**0-25**%**
- Role type

**Individual Contributor**
- Profession

**Data Center**
- Discipline

**Data Center Operations Management**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:
Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a CO+I ERM, 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. By enabling data center capacity through increased **Infrastructure Utilization Effectiveness (IUE) and Power Harvesting (PH)**, you will lead the retrofit efforts to upgrade legacy datacenters and harvest capacity in our existing fleet. As a group, CO+I is focused on personal and professional development for all employees, offer trainings and growth opportunities including Career Rotation Programs, Diversity & Inclusion, and professional certifications.

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.

Do you want to empower billions across the world? Come and join us in CO+I and be at the forefront of the action

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**:

- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Proven experience in Critical Environment infrastructure (e.g., UPS, PDUs, Generators, AHU/CFM, ability to read and interpret electrical one-line diagrams and working with IT infrastructure modifications (e.g., Cable trays, Fiber Runners, HACs and IT equipment).
- Experience in IT Critical Space and understanding of IT Allocation (e.g., Diverse Cluster density, quanta, patterns)

**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 supporting IT equipment or related technology or delivering server and network deployment projects in large-scale OR equivalent experience.

**Responsibilities**:
**As a successful Power Harvesting Program Manager, your success will be measured by**:
**_ Data Center Operations_**
- Primary focus in Managing IT Allocation at the Campus/Metro level by collaborating with key stakeholders and ensuring that demands are properly allocated across the IT infrastructure.
- Familiarize with the Data Center design and manage the IT resources by performing virtual failure analysis and develop a master allocation plan to drive the operationalization of the customer capacity.
- Ensure compliance with data center business units and service-level policies.
- Engage with appropriate teams and resources to execute tasks or projects.
- Manage programs associated with the area of responsibility.
- Demonstrate conscientiousness on cost adheres to budget requirements; keep costs reasonable and contribute to staying within budget.
- Follow and adhere to safety and security policies and procedures. Report immediately any safety or security issues or concerns.
- Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process as appropriate.
- Raise risks to the IT capacity allocation and planning. Identify power stranding and contractual inconsistencies (leased spaces).
- Ensure that the critical environment information is properly entered and maintained (tooling).
- Lead programs and projects through leadership forums aligning scope, schedule, and cost that align to our OKRs.

**_ Service Delivery_**
- Manage the assigned projects or programs to meet service delivery objectives and escalate to appropriate stakeholders to remove obstacles.
- Recognize potential customer impact of other events and issues (e.g., customer lockdown), communicate potential impact, and plan for impact accordingly.
- Proactively review schedules and avoid conflicts when possible. Identify, coordinate, manage expectations, and offer alternatives when defining customer solutions.
- Manage relationships with vendors and suppliers to ensure that all expectations are clarified, understood, documented, and met.

**_ Data Center Work Environment_**
- Share best practices; assist others in learning role, process, procedures.
- Collaborate and engage with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across CO+I and engineering groups to gain program / project insights.
- Leverage and synthesize these insights to develop and operationalize solutions that mitigate our customer gaps.