Third Party Data Center Technical Operations Manager, Facilities/Maintenance
GoogleDalarna County, Dalarna County
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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 certified training
in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
* 9 years of experience in Electrical, Mechanical/HVAC, or controls experience
in an industrial/commercial environment.
* Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment, and work on platforms, ladders,
and under raised floors.
* Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* Bachelor’s degree or advanced education in a related field.
* Experience working in data center environments, including building and
operating infrastructure.
* Experience with initiating and executing initiatives in a global environment.
* Ability to perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party
sites.
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 an advocate for best 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.
As a Data Center Technical Operations Manager, you will be involved in nearly
every aspect of Third-Party Data Center operations of electrical, cooling, and
IT infrastructure. You will partner with the Google data center engineering
team, Hardware operations, Network Infrastructure and third-party data center
vendors and operators with a focus on operability, maintainability and
reliability. In this role, you will be the advocate for operations organization,
and be responsible to ensure operability, maintainability and reliability are
critical criteria for Google assets.
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:
* Own Co-Location (COLO) sites facility operation within an area/region, with
full accountability for this area tactically and strategically.
* Provide technical support for mini-cluster (COLO) sites within a region.
* Keep main stakeholders informed about current work and discuss strategic
decisions and directions with them.
* Provide technical expertise during incidents, and coordinate the planning of
critical activities.
* Provide occasional oncall support to the global third-party data center
operation.
