Senior Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical
GoogleSaint-Ghislain, Wallonia
Full-timerotating
Free account to apply · application completed on Google
Free account to apply · application completed on Google
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.
