Google

Technical Operations Manager, Third-Party Data Centers

Google$138K — $200K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate's degree or equivalent technical training required.
  • 9 years of experience in electrical, mechanical/HVAC, or controls in industrial or commercial settings.
  • 5 years in project management within mission-critical environments like data centers.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant engineering field preferred.
  • Strong communication skills across all organizational levels are advantageous.
  • Experience in Reliability Centered Maintenance is preferred.
  • Data-driven resource forecasting ability is desirable.

Responsibilities

  • Drive testing and certification of new processes for critical equipment.
  • Lead compliance activities and ensure adherence to Google design standards globally.
  • Monitor data center system operations to minimize risks and ensure effective response.
  • Ensure global compliance with maintenance and policy programs while driving improvements.
  • Develop strategies to reduce operational costs and environmental impact.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare plans including dental and vision coverage.
  • Generous paid time off and vacation policies.
  • Retirement savings plans with company matching contributions.
  • Employee wellness programs and mental health support services.
  • Access to professional development and ongoing learning opportunities.
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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/automation in an industrial or commercial environment.
  • 5 years of experience in program or project management in mission-critical facilities (e.g., data centers, chip fabrication), design-build, or real estate development environments.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, or Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience communicating effectively with all levels of the organization, including executives.
  • Experience with Reliability Centered Maintenance and in 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 Technical Operations Manager, you will be involved in nearly every aspect of co-location operations for the electrical, cooling, and IT infrastructure. You will partner with the Google Data Center engineering teams, hardware operations, network infrastructure, and third-party data center vendors and operators with a focus on operability, maintainability, and reliability. You will represent the operations organization, and will be responsible to ensure operability, maintainability, and reliability are critical criteria for Google assets.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $138000 - $200000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Drive efforts to test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and procedures for critical complex equipment operation for data center domain of expertise.
  • Lead 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.
  • Drive efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to ensure effective response to any excursions.
  • Drive efforts to ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.
  • Lead 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.


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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