Data Center Facilities Technician, Controls

Socket.dev; Midlothian (TX); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's data center facilities team operates and maintains advanced electrical, mechanical and HVAC systems to ensure reliability at scale. Facilities Technicians monitor, inspect, and repair critical infrastructure while prioritizing safety and efficiency in a demanding environment.

You will work with cross-functional teams to manage power, cooling, and telemetry systems, contributing to uptime and operational excellence across Google’s data centers.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum: 5 years of experience in operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, data center environment and safety, teamwork, project controls, data center automation, monitoring systems.
• Capable of lifting up to 50 lbs and using OSHA safety equipment as required, including PPE.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems such as servers, network equipment, PLCs, access control, alarm investigation, and SCADA management.
• Provide daily assistance to technicians by reading blueprints, schematics, ladder logic, and sequences of operations; conduct tours and assess system health.
• Control, monitoring, logging, and alarming of systems to ensure reliability.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in data center facilities and equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment into facilities infrastructure.

Skills

Operations experience

Troubleshooting

Data center environment

Safety compliance

Automation monitoring

Team collaboration

Project controls

Data center automation

Monitoring systems

Lifting safety

Education

Associate's degree, trade school or equivalent

Tools

Hand tools

Digital metering

Calibration/diagnostic equipment

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, data center environment and safety, teamwork, project controls, data center automation, monitoring systems.
• Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs of equipment, the required use of OSHA standard safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses.
  
• Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications:

• Industry standard certifications related to system administration (e.g., CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Certified Windows or Linux system administrator).
• 5 years of experience in controls/automation, or construction/technical environment or a related field.
  
• Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
• Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, relays and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
  
• Scripting language proficiency.
  
• Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.
  

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 Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for our data centers.

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: $105000 - $145000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, PLCs, system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and SCADA management.
• Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/ladder logic/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
• Control, monitoring, logging, and alarming systems.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.