# Data Center - Site Selection & Colocation Manager

**Company**: Nebius
**Location**: Singapore
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Site Selection & Colocation Manager is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and securing optimal locations for new data center developments and colocation expansions.

Responsibilities:

### Site Selection & Market Analysis

- Lead the end-to-end site selection process for new data center facilities.

- Conduct market assessments, including power availability, fiber connectivity, land suitability, regulatory requirements, and risk factors.

- Build and maintain market intelligence on emerging data center regions, supply trends, energy markets, and colocation pricing.

- Evaluate and shortlist candidate sites through comparative analysis, scoring models, and feasibility studies.

### Technical & Environmental Due Diligence

- Coordinate environmental, geotechnical, hydrological, and seismic assessments.

- Assess infrastructure availability (power, water, fiber) and future scalability.

- Evaluate construction constraints, climate conditions, logistics access, and permitting feasibility.

- Work with engineering teams to ensure sites meet mechanical, electrical, and network resilience requirements.

### Colocation Strategy & Vendor Management

- Identify colocation providers and evaluate facilities based on technical specifications, SLA requirements, and cost structure.

- Lead RFPs, negotiations, and contract execution with colocation and connectivity partners.

- Manage colocation lifecycle: renewals, expansions, migrations, and optimization of space/power allocations.

- Monitor vendor performance against SLA, uptime, compliance, and efficiency metrics.

### Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Work with data center design and construction teams to validate site feasibility and development timelines.

- Partner with legal on contract terms, property acquisition, lease terms, and regulatory compliance.

- Support finance with CapEx/OpEx modeling, ROI calculations, and business case development.

- Coordinate with public authorities, utilities, and permitting agencies as needed.

### Risk Assessment & Compliance

- Evaluate risks related to natural hazards, geopolitical risk, security, environmental constraints, and utility reliability.

- Ensure compliance with local regulations, zoning laws, and corporate standards.

- Maintain documentation for audits, reporting, and internal approvals.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Engineering, Business, Geography, or related field.

- 5–8+ years of experience in site selection, real estate development, colocation management, or data center infrastructure.

- Strong understanding of data center power, cooling, and network requirements.

- Experience in evaluating colocation providers and negotiating leases/SLAs.

- Analytical skills in market research, cost modeling, and risk assessment.

- Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects across regions.

- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with hyper-scale or large-scale data center development.

- Knowledge of utility procurement (power, water), renewable energy markets, and substation planning.

- Familiarity with geospatial tools (GIS), risk modeling, or data center capacity planning.

- Understanding of permitting processes and environmental regulations.

## Skills

### Required
- Real Estate
- Engineering
- Business
- Geography
- data center power
- cooling
- network requirements
- colocation management
- market research
- cost modeling
- risk assessment

### Nice to have
- hyper-scale data center development
- utility procurement
- renewable energy markets
- substation planning
- geospatial tools (GIS)
- risk modeling
- data center capacity planning
- permitting processes
- environmental regulations

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