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Critical Environment Technician Manager (Night Shift)

Microsoft Corporation

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Compensation
$75–168K/yr
Location
Phoenix, AZ
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Microsoft Cloud Background Check

Job overview

The Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager leads teams supporting Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and critical facility operations. The role oversees equipment operations and maintenance, incident response, safety and security practices, and contractor activities across critical environment disciplines. It includes 12-hour shifts that may cover nights, weekends, and holidays, with periodic business travel of 0–25%. Microsoft states it cannot sponsor a work visa for this role.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Electrical SystemsMechanical SystemsControls SystemsGenerator OperationsHVACTelemetryComputerized Maintenance Management SystemsIncident ResponseRoot-Cause AnalysisEquipment TroubleshootingMaintenance and RepairPeople ManagementCoachingSafety ManagementSecurity Compliance

Qualifications

High School Diploma or Equivalent5+ Years Mission-Critical Services Experience or EquivalentMicrosoft Cloud Background Check1+ Year Specialized Area ExperienceAssociate's Degree or Technical Trade Certification and 7+ Years Experience or High School Diploma and 10+ Years Experience or Equivalent1+ Year People Management Experience

Full job description

Overview

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day and we need you as a Data Center Critical Environment Technician Manager.

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a CO+I CE Technician 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 for all employees and offers trainings and growth 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.

In this environment, you may be asked to go on business travel to support other metros periodically, 0-25% of the time and have the ability to work 12-hour shifts, including shift assignments during non-standard business hours that may include evening, nighttime, weekends and/or holidays.

Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities :

People Management

  • Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.

  • Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.

  • Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.

  • Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

Equipment and Systems Operations

  • Serve as an operations specialist one or more major area of operations (e.g., electrical, mechanical, controls, generators, and work on advanced tasks independently.

  • Oversee and coach team with the inspection of critical environment-related facility equipment (e.g., controls, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning [HVAC], mechanical systems), building, and grounds regularly for unsafe or abnormal conditions to develop and analyze trends.

  • Monitor performance of maintenance and operations utilizing telemetry, control systems, and other platforms and is able to identify all alarms.

  • Utilize internal computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to track all equipment assets and to complete work order requests for maintenance work and generate reporting to identify outstanding and ongoing work orders.

  • Safely and quickly respond to and lead an onsite incident response team for all abnormal conditions that impact operations and coordinate with other critical facilities professionals to perform corrective repairs.

  • Enhances, develops new, or follows preexisting emergency operating procedures (EOPs), methods of procedure (MOPs), and standard operating procedures (SOPs) in relation to incidents.

  • Gathers necessary information and creates incident timelines/data, root-cause analyses, and/or action items following an abnormal condition.

Equipment and Systems Maintenance

  • Guide, oversee, and perform various types of maintenance (e.g., planned, predictive, corrective) and repairs following methods of procedure (MOPs), and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for one or more disciplines and one or more types of equipment (e.g., electrical, mechanical, cooling systems) and escalate when appropriate.

  • Serve as a subject matter expert for one type of equipment and oversee everyday tasks and troubleshooting within their area of expertise

  • Have a hands-on understanding of how equipment works within disciplines they have been trained and how to troubleshoot equipment, systems, subsystems, and components independently within their trained discipline(s).

  • Provide and/or assign team to provide necessary escort to third-party contractors, sub contractors, vendors, and service providers on site for all severity leveled procedures. Coordinate and schedule supplier/vendor on-site activities and recognizes circumstances when to stop supplier work to address potential and/or identified concerns.

  • Take part in getting third-party work underway (e.g., making sure systems are properly energized/deenergized), ensuring the work is started and completed in a safe manner in accordance with standard practices, procedures, federal/local legislation, and municipal codes.

  • Advises colleagues on inspection and supervision issues.

  • Provides consultation to lower-level colleagues in troubleshooting systems and problems

Critical Environment Culture

  • Understands, follows, ensures, and coaches team on safety and security requirements (e.g., job hazard assessments [JHAs], toolbox talks), and business processes and procedures to properly perform work in a safe, quality, and reliable manner in accordance with applicable federal, state, local, and Microsoft requirements.

  • Proactively ensures safety and security requirements are followed and met for the work of themselves and others.

  • Maintain safe working conditions and escalate immediately when unsafe working conditions are observed.

  • Assesses and identifies appropriate resources and equipment necessary to fully support environmental health and safety (EH&S) objectives.

  • Participates in required meetings, trainings, and necessary handoffs.

Other

  • Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

  • High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent.

  • 5+ years mission critical services work/applied learning experience (e.g., high availability assembly/manufacturing/critical infrastructure environments such as data centers, oil and gas refineries, hospitals, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or related fields) OR equivalent experience.

  • Ability to work shifts, including shift assignments during non-standard business hours that may include evening, nighttime, weekends, and/or holidays.

Other 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

  • 1+ year(s) experience in a specialized area (e.g., mechanical field, electrical field, controls field) or related field.

  • Associate's Degree or technical trade certification (e.g., military, trade school), or higher-equivalent education AND 7+ years mission-critical services experience (e.g., high-availability assembly/manufacturing/critical infrastructure environments such as data centers, oil and gas refineries, hospitals, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or related fields) OR High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent AND 10+ years mission critical services experience (e.g., high-availability assembly/manufacturing/critical infrastructure environments such as data centers, oil and gas refineries, hospitals, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or related fields) OR equivalent experience.

  • 1+ year(s) people management experience.

Critical Environment Ops M3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $75,400 - $167,900 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $105,800 - $185,300 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)

How this job compares

Set against the 1,302 open Facilities Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$75–168K/yr
  • US median$109–143K/yr901 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $122K, is 5% below the US median midpoint ($128K) — in the middle half of Facilities Manager salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 26 open Facilities Manager jobs in Arizona and 1,302 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Arizona
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Facilities Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,032 postings).
Education
151 of the 1,302 open Facilities Manager jobs (12%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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