Data Center Facilities Technician II, Controls

Google; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Google data centers rely on skilled Facilities Technicians to operate, monitor, and support electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems ensuring uptime and safety. You will inspect and repair data center components, monitor power and environmental controls, and collaborate with teams to optimize efficiency.

The role emphasizes safe operation, rapid troubleshooting, and collaboration with contractors to maintain critical infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or certified training or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in controls/automation.
• Experience with control panels, controllers, electrical safety, and electrical systems.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and work in varying shifts.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems such as servers, network equipment, PLCs, and SCADA management.
• Provide daily assistance to technicians reading blueprints, schematics, ladder logic, and operations sequences; conduct system tours.
• Control, monitor, log, and alarm systems.
• Operate and respond to abnormal conditions in data center facilities and equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment.

Skills

Controls/automation experience

Electrical safety

Control panels

Electrical systems

Lifting up to 50 lbs

Non-standard hours

Data center experience (preferred)

Scripting languages (preferred)

Metering/relays troubleshooting

Contractor coordination

Education

Associate's degree or certified training in a related technical field

5 years of controls/automation experience

Certifications: CompTIA A+ / Network+ / Security+

Certified Windows or Linux system administrator

Tools

None

Job description

This role is not eligible for U.S. immigration sponsorship.

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.
• Experience with control panels, controllers, electrical safety, and electrical 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

• Certifications related to system administration (e.g., CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Certified Windows or Linux system administrator).
• Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
• Experience 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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $105,000 - $146,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

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.

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.