Technical Operations Manager, Third Party Data Center Facilities (English)

Google; Frankfurt; Vor Ort; EUR 112.000 - 114.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Google is seeking a skilled Data Center Technician to support critical facility operations in Germany. You will help inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems, read blueprints, and assist senior technicians to ensure reliability and safety.

This role emphasizes reducing costs, improving efficiency, and maintaining environmental standards. The team drives global initiatives across TPUs, Vertex AI, and Google Cloud infrastructure to deliver scalable computing power.

Qualifikationen

• English fluency to support client relationship management in the region.
• Associate's degree or equivalent training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Aufgaben

• Test, validate, improve, and certify new processes for critical data center equipment operations.
• Lead compliance activities for data centers and analyze results globally.
• Monitor data center systems operations and coordinate site activities to minimize risk.
• Ensure global site programs are followed and drive policy improvements.
• Develop strategies to minimize costs, boost efficiency, and reduce environmental impact.

Kenntnisse

English fluency

Data center experience

Global initiatives

Risk assessment

Resource forecasting

Problem solving

Ausbildung

Associate's degree or equivalent experience

Jobbeschreibung

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 working in mission-critical facility maintenance and operations.
• Ability to communicate in English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working in data center environments, including building and operating infrastructure.
• Experience in initiating and executing strategic initiatives in a global environment.
• Ability to perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party sites.
• Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-driven way.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

About the job

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in the world. Facility Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions. Some 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'll provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order.

You will 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 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 behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of 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.

Germany: €112000 - €114000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• 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, ensuring regional and global teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.
• Monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to ensure effective response to any excursions.
• Ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.
• Drive 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of 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. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .