Technical Operations Manager, Third Party Data Center Facilities

Google; Middenmeer; On-site; EUR 114,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Data Center Operations seeks skilled professionals to manage third‑party colocation facilities, ensure continuous availability, and lead incident and risk management for power and cooling systems. You will coordinate capacity expansions across multiple sites, ensure safety, and validate vendor procedures to uphold governance.

Role focuses on reliable IT infrastructure, environmental safety, and collaboration with internal engineering teams to maintain operability and reliability of data

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or equivalent training in a related technical field.
• 9 years of experience in Electrical, Mechanical/HVAC, or controls in an industrial/commercial environment.
• 9 years of experience in operations management and facilities management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for third‑party colocation data centers, ensuring continuous facility availability and aligning with providers to manage service delivery.
• Lead the response to major power or cooling redundancy failures, focusing on incident management, risk management, and EHS compliance to prevent critical outages.
• Coordinate capacity expansion works across multiple site locations, maintaining safety and zero unplanned disruptions to live operations.
• Validate technical information, risk registers, and maintenance procedures provided by third‑party vendors to enforce operational governance, without directly managing third‑party technicians.
• Conduct regular on‑site operational assessments and partner with internal engineering teams to ensure operability, maintainability, and reliability.

Skills

Associate degree/training

9 years electrical/HVAC/controls

9 years operations/facilities

Education

Associate's degree or equivalent training

Job description

• 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/Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), or controls experience in an industrial/commercial environment.
• 9 years of experience in operations management and facilities management.

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/Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), or controls experience in an industrial/commercial environment.
• 9 years of experience in operations management and facilities management.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working in data center environments, including building and operating infrastructure.
• Experience with initiating and executing 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 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).

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 part of the Third Party Data Center Operations team, you will provide technical due diligence for site selection, sustains and improves the quality of vendor operated data centers, and mitigates and resolves conflict for critical work risk.

In this role, you will focus on reliable operation of the mechanical and electrical infrastructure of data centers, working with the vendor operator for success. You will be involved in collocation operations for electrical, cooling, and IT infrastructure. You will partner with the Google Data Center Engineering team, 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 ensure operability, maintainability, and reliability that 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.

Netherlands: €114000 - €116000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Serve as the primary point of contact for third‑party colocation data centers, ensuring continuous facility availability and aligning with providers to manage service delivery.
• Lead the response to major power or cooling redundancy failures, focusing heavily on incident management, risk management, and Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance to prevent critical outages.
• Coordinate capacity expansion works across multiple site locations, maintaining a strict focus on safety and ensuring zero unplanned disruptions to live operations.
• Validate the technical information, risk registers, and maintenance procedures provided by third‑party vendors to enforce strict operational governance, without directly managing the third‑party technicians.
• Conduct regular on‑site operational assessments and partner with internal engineering teams to ensure that operability, maintainability, and reliability remain the most critical criteria for all infrastructure assets.

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 .