Senior Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

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

in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.

* 7 years of experience working with mission critical facility maintenance and

operations.

* Experience with electrical distribution systems.

* Ability to work non-standard hours, including working weekends, holidays and

on shift-based schedule as required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience planning and executing installation, commissioning, and equipment

startup following industry best practices and protocols.

* Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting utilizing standard

hand tools digital metering or calibration equipment and diagnostic

equipment.

* Knowledge of electrical distribution systems (e.g., high voltage, low

voltage, protection and controls, power quality).

* Understanding of electrical and mechanical systems in data center

environments and controls/monitoring systems.

* Excellent written and verbal communication and people management skills, with

the ability to prioritize work efficiently.

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.

Facilities Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support

physical facilities conditions. Some of these 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 provide daily assistance to

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

and assess their working order.

As a master of exceptional practices, you 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.

In this role, you will deploy, operate, and maintain a scalable and secure

Google data center infrastructure safely, reliably, and efficiently.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the

Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and

maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google

platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our

engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we

can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have

the best and fastest experience possible.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Operate, monitor, inspect, maintain and respond to abnormal conditions in the

data center facilities systems and equipment.

* Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate

mission-critical decisions.

* Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of electrical

distribution systems and power monitoring.

* Provide root cause analysis (RCA), recovery and prevention actions for

service failure.

* Prepare and execute operation procedures, respond to work request/service

failure and provide operational and technical expertise in required areas.