Data Center Operations Facility Manager

Socket.dev; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Data Center Operations professional to lead and optimize facility performance across global sites. You will oversee electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems, monitor operations, and coordinate with senior technicians to maintain and repair critical infrastructure.

The role emphasizes cost-efficient improvements, adherence to safety standards, and rapid response to outages, with collaboration across multiple business units to achieve company goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in data center operations or relevant operational experience in non-DC industries.
• 2 years of experience managing technical teams and vendors in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.

Responsibilities

• Drive efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally.
• Monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and respond effectively to any excursions.
• Ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs, with minimal assistance.
• Develop 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 intermediate subdomain knowledge and experience to determine data center design improvements to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.

Skills

Data center ops

Team & vendor mgmt

Education

Bachelor's in technical field or equivalent

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in data center operations or other relevant operational experience in non-DC industries (e.g., power generation, HVAC and refrigeration, industrial manufacturing, military, oil and gas, maritime/marine, large chemical cluster, etc.).
• 2 years of experience managing technical teams and vendors in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience 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 set, prioritize, and achieve business objectives.
• Ability to develop and grow team members, through coaching, mentoring, and training.

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. Facility Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions. Some 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). You'll provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order.

You will 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 Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

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

US: $122000 - $173000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Drive 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.
• Monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and respond effectively to any excursions.
• Ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs, with minimal assistance.
• Develop 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 intermediate subdomain knowledge and experience to determine data center design improvements to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.