Data Center Operations Facilities Manager

Google Inc.; Leesburg (VA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Leesburg is seeking a Data Center Operations Facilities Manager to own and optimize data center operations, ensuring reliability and efficiency across global sites. You will lead technical teams, mentor managers, and shape compliance programs while partnering with multiple stakeholders to meet Google's standards.

This role emphasizes ownership of outcomes, strategic cost management, and continuous improvement in high‑consequence environments, operating within a fast-paced, globally

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience managing technical teams in operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure.
• Experience in mentoring or developing managers.

Responsibilities

• Own efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze results for data centers globally.
• Lead efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and ensure effective response to excursions.
• Ensure all sites follow facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while driving improvements to policies and programs.
• Develop strategies to keep operating costs to a minimum, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site.

Skills

Outcomes ownership

Mentoring managers

Technical team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Job description

Data Center Operations Facilities Manager

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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders;deep expertise in domain.

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• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience managing technical teams in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.
• Experience in mentoring or developing managers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in mission critical systems operations (e.g., power generation, data center, refinery, chip fabrication, chemical processing, or other high consequence environments).
• Experience in collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
• Understanding of the operations and maintenance of electrical, control systems, and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
• Ability to develop and grow team members through coaching, mentoring, and training.
• Excellent people management and leadership skills.

About the job

At Google, we aim to foster Googley work environments that are collaborative, friendly and fun. The Facilities Management team brings our spaces to life as you oversee the daily operations of our offices. While roles with similar names at other companies can be far more mundane, you're a creative, organized customer service specialist, who takes pride in seeing things run smoothly and efficiently. You go out of your way to make sure that clients are not only satisfied, but singing Google's praises. You're comfortable in a fast-paced environment with the highest standards of excellence. You aren't afraid to have fun with your job, and bring an enthusiasm, dedication and a collaborative spirit to build and maintain office spaces that facilitate some of the world's most cutting edge innovation.

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.

US: $164000 - $237000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Own efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally. Ensure regional and global teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.

Lead efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to ensure effective response to any excursions.

Lead efforts to ensure all sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.

Own the development of strategies to keep operational costs to a minimum, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with driving site-level development of programs and initiatives.

Incorporate subdomain expertise and experience to enhance data center design to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

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