Google

Data Center Site Manager, Data Centers Operations

Google$108K — $130K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate's degree or equivalent technical training in engineering fields.
  • 10 years in electrical, mechanical/HVAC, or controls within industrial/commercial contexts.
  • 5 years in a data center or facilities setting.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred in relevant engineering fields.
  • Strong communication skills with all organizational levels.

Responsibilities

  • Support the site selection process with technical insights.
  • Conduct operational assessments and risk analysis for third-party locations.
  • Manage facility operations for co-location sites within a designated region.
  • Engage stakeholders with updates and key decisions.
  • Supervise technical teams to ensure maintenance and repair meet global standards.

Benefits

  • Work within cutting-edge data center environments.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and operations.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
  • Contribute to innovative approaches in reducing operational costs.
  • Be part of a team that prioritizes environmental and safety standards.
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in Industrial Engineering, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Reliability Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in electrical, mechanical/HVAC, or controls experience in an industrial/commercial environment.
  • 5 years of experience in a data center or facilities environment.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Reliability Engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
  • Experience communicating effectively with all levels of the organization, including executives.
  • Experience with reliability centered maintenance and engineering.
  • Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-driven way.


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 Site Manager for Google's Data Centers Operations team, you will be involved in nearly every aspect of operations for electrical, cooling, and IT infrastructure. You will partner with the Google Data Center engineering teams, hardware operations, network infrastructure and vendors and operators with a focus on operability, maintainability and reliability. In this role, you will represent the operations organization, and be responsible to ensure operability, maintainability and reliability are critical criteria for Google assets.

Responsibilities
  • Support site selection process through operational and technical knowledge.
  • Perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party co-location sites.
  • Own co-location sites facility operation within an area/region, with full accountability for this area tactically.
  • Engage stakeholders to ensure they are informed about current work and discuss decisions.
  • Oversee technical and team leads through the completion of required maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair tasks to maintain equipment to our global standard.

About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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