Data Center Operations Facilities Manager

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training

in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

* 9 years of experience in data center operations or other relevant operational

experience in non-data center industries (e.g., power generation, HVAC and

refrigeration, industrial manufacturing, military, oil and gas,

maritime/marine, chemical cluster, etc.).

* Experience with managing facilities that adhere to strict security

requirements.

* Successful candidates will be required to hold and maintain Australian

Government Security Vetting Agency (AGSVA) Negative Vetting 2 (NV2).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience in mission critical systems operations (e.g., power generation,

data center, refinery, chip fabrication, chemical processing, or other high

consequence environments).

* Experience in collaborating with other business units to meet company goals

and standards.

* Understanding of the operations and maintenance of electrical, control

systems, and mechanical systems in a data center environment.

* Ability to develop and grow team members through coaching, mentoring, and

training.

* Excellent people management and leadership skills.

ABOUT THE JOB:

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated

electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and HVAC systems in the world.

Facility Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support

physical facilities conditions. Some duties will include heating and cooling of

air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution

and control and monitoring systems. You regularly help inspect, maintain and

repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or

mechanical system components). You'll provide daily assistance to senior

technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and

assess their working order.

You will develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while

improving overall data center efficiency. You ensure that environmental and

safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs

quickly In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you manage data center

performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.

The Google Australia Sovereign Cloud team builds, delivers, and operates secure

private cloud services. We provide a flexible, reliable, and scalable end-to-end

capability—from the cloud to the edge—to enable operation in complex

environments. We deliver and operate these private cloud deployments for the

most critical Australian Federal Government customers, helping scale, secure,

and maintain the deployment while working closely with Google product teams to

continually improve our technology.The Data Center team designs and operates

some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are

a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to

building and operating powerful data centers.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Own efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze

compliance results for data centers globally. Ensure regional and global

teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design

standards.

* Lead efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site

activities to minimize risk, and to ensure effective response to any

excursions.

* Lead efforts to ensure all sites are following facility, maintenance, and

standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said

policies and programs.

* Own the development of strategies to keep operational costs to a minimum,

improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with

driving site-level development of programs and initiatives.

* Incorporate subdomain expertise and experience to enhance data center design

to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.