Data Center Facilities Technician, Stand-by Power

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and HVAC systems in the world. As a Facilities Technician at Google data centers, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions. Your duties will include the heating and cooling of air and water, power supply management, oversight of generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution, and monitoring systems. You will regularly help inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components. Additionally, you will 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 will develop creative approaches to reduce operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. Ensuring that environmental and safety standards are consistently met is crucial, as is quickly identifying and repairing problems. In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures. Behind everything our users see online, the Technical Infrastructure team builds the architecture that keeps it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to creating the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We take pride in being our engineers' engineers and enjoy voiding warranties by taking things apart to rebuild them. Our goal is to keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible. Google is committed to being an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.