Data Center Server Operations Manager

Google LLC; Summerville (SC); On-site; USD 164,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Data Center Server Operations Manager in Summerville, SC, to lead a team of data center technicians. You will supervise installation, configuration, testing, and troubleshooting of server hardware and components, ensuring safe, reliable operation of Google's physical infrastructure.

Responsibilities include coordinating priorities across shifts, developing teams, and driving safety culture in a large-scale data center environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience managing technical teams in charge of installing, configuring, testing, troubleshooting, or maintaining hardware servers and its components.
• Experience in site-level data center operational leadership.
• Experience in a people management, supervision, or team leadership role.
• Experience with different operating systems (e.g., Linux) and developing network architecture.
• Must have the ability to work non-standard hours, including working weekends, night shifts, holidays and on shift-based schedules as required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the day-to-day management of teams within data center operations.
• Communicate priorities and facilitate hand off of operations to following shift leads.
• Work together to identify and resolve problems and create solutions for our global computing and network architecture.
• Hire, coach, and develop a team while achieving business goals.
• Ensure data center-related priorities are consistent with company objectives. Implement and drive the safety culture at the site, while fostering a collaborative team environment.

Skills

Team leadership

Data center operations

Linux systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Networking

Server hardware

Job description

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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 installing, configuring, testing, troubleshooting, or maintaining hardware servers and its components.
• Experience in site-level data center operational leadership.
• Experience in a people management, supervision, or team leadership role.
• Experience with different operating systems (e.g., Linux) and developing network architecture.
• Must have the ability to work non-standard hours, including working weekends, night shifts, holidays and on shift-based schedules as required.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading and improving Environmental, Health, and Safety initiatives.
• Experience with initiating and executing initiatives in a global environment.
• Experience working in data center environments, including building and operating large-scale infrastructure, and network and compute architecture and lifecycle, and Linux/Unix system administration.
• Ability to implement and drive the safety culture at the site, while fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

About the job

Google isn't just a software company. The Hardware Operations team is responsible for monitoring the state-of-the-art physical infrastructure behind Google's powerful search technology. As a Hardware Operations Manager, you will manage a team of Data Center Technicians. You will oversee the quality installation of server hardware and components and take charge of complicated installations/troubleshooting.

Your team will install, configure, test, troubleshoot and maintain hardware (like servers and its components) and server software (like Google's Linux cluster). They will also take on the configuration of more complex components such as networks, routers, hubs, bridges, switches and networking protocols. They may lead small project teams on larger installations and develop project contingency plans. Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

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

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

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• Oversee the day-to-day management of teams within data center operations.
• Communicate priorities and facilitate hand off of operations to following shift leads.
• Work together to identify and resolve problems and create solutions for our global computing and network architecture.
• Hire, coach, and develop a team while achieving business goals.
• Ensure data center-related priorities are consistent with company objectives. Implement and drive the safety culture at the site, while fostering a collaborative team environment.

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 .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.