Minimum qualifications:
- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Industry standard certifications related to system administration (e.g., CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Certified Windows or Linux system administrator).
- 2 years of experience in controls/automation, or construction/technical environment or a related field.
- Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
Preferred qualifications:
- Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, relays and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
- Proficiency with scripting languages.
- Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.
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.
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.
- Ensure uptime and perform maintenance for critical electrical automation and control systems (SCADA/BMS), including power generation, UPS, electrical distribution, and cooling infrastructure.
- Operate and monitor data center facilities, responding to abnormal conditions by analyzing multiple information streams to make accurate, mission-critical decisions in the control room.
- Support the startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment, alongside tracking and trending operational characteristics for optimal system performance.
- Direct complex controls system programming, startup, commissioning, documentation, and full facilities turnover, adhering to environmental health and safety policies.
- Develop standards for global control system analysis, diagnostics and preventive maintenance, providing operational insights during design reviews.
