Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Facilities Technician to inspect, maintain, and repair critical data center systems, including UPS, generators, and electrical distribution. You will read blueprints, assist technicians, and monitor system performance to ensure reliability and safety.

Your role supports startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment, while prioritizing environmental and safety standards in a cutting-edge data center environment.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in electrical maintenance, electrical safety, electrical systems, electrical infrastructure systems, and generators.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.
• Material handling up to 50 lbs and use of OSHA safety equipment.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems.
• Provide daily assistance to technicians reading blueprints/schematics/sequence of operations.
• Manage the uptime and maintenance of UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new electrical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

Skills

Experience in electrical systems

Shift flexibility

Material handling

Education

Associate's degree/trade training or equivalent

Tools

Meters & sensors

Diagnostic equipment

Digital metering

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 electrical maintenance, electrical safety, electrical systems, electrical infrastructure systems, and generators.
• Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs of equipment, required use of OSHA standard safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment like safety harnesses.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in maintenance and operations of electrical distribution systems or technical environments.
• Experience in data centers, power plants, HV electrical substations, or other mission critical facility maintenance and operational experience.
• Knowledge of electrical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units).
• Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, 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.

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.
• Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
• Manage the uptime and maintenance of UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new electrical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.