datacenter-opslisted

# Datacenter Operations ## Purpose Operate physical datacenter infrastructure — whether owned, leased colocation, edge / micro-datacenter, or a hybrid stretching to cloud — against the published standards (Uptime Institute Tier Standard, ANSI/TIA-942-C, ISO/IEC 22237, EN 50600). The skill covers the layers cloud abstractions hide: power feeds + UPS + generators, cooling + airflow + containment, structured cabling + patch management, physical security + access control, hardware lifecycle + capacity planning, change management on hot infrastructure, vendor + service level discipline, and the disciplined incident response that gets a row of racks back online without making things worse. Most software engineers never see this layer. Most cloud workloads sit on it. When a region goes down, when latency-sensitive workloads need on-prem, when regulatory residency demands sovereign infrastructure, when edge computing requires distributed deployment, the datacenter operations discipline is what makes the physical layer behave like the abstraction software was promised. The skill activates when colocation contracts are being negotiated or renewed, when a private DC is being designed or expanded, when hybrid (cloud + on-prem) connectivity is being planned, when incident response involves the physical layer (power event, cooling failure, fibre cut), when capacity planning is on the agenda, when change management on hot infrastructure is being scheduled, and during compliance audits t