Data Center Facilities Technician, Controls

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

Job summary

Google’s Data Center team designs and operates some of the world’s most advanced electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. Facilities Technicians monitor and support facility conditions, ensuring safety, reliability, and efficiency across data centers.

You will participate in standard and emergency operations, inspect equipment, and help manage power, cooling, and environmental controls while collaborating with contractors and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or equivalent training in a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience in controls/automation in an industrial or commercial setting.
• Ability to perform material handling up to 50 lbs with OSHA-standard PPE.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and varying shifts.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems including servers, network equipment, PLCs, and SCADA management.
• Read blueprints, schematics, ladder logic, and sequences of operations; tour systems and assess operation.
• Control, monitor, log, and alarm data center systems and equipment.
• Operate, monitor, and respond to abnormal conditions in data center facilities.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment into facilities.

Skills

Controls/automation

Lifting 50 lbs

OSHA PPE knowledge

Non-standard hours

Education

Associate degree/trade certification

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 controls/automation in an industrial or commercial environment.
• 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.
• Proficiency in scripting languages.
• Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, relays and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
• 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.

Transfer compensation is determined algorithmically and is non-negotiable. Your recruiter will share more about the specific salary for your targeted location during the hiring process. Learn more about how a transfer may affect your compensation package, how location changes affect compensation, and about benefits at Google.

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

Responsibilities:

• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, PLCs, system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (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.