Tech Ops Manager, Data Centers & Third-Party Partners

Google; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 138,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s Data Center team designs and operates sophisticated electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems across global facilities. Facilities Technicians monitor, inspect, and repair data center systems, read blueprints, and support senior technicians to maintain optimal performance.

You will partner with engineering teams and vendors to ensure operability, reliability, and cost efficiency, while adhering to safety standards and best practices across sites.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or certified training in a related technical field.
• 9 years of experience in electrical, mechanical/HVAC, or controls/automation in an industrial or commercial environment.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management in mission-critical facilities (e.g., data centers, chip fabrication), design-build, or real estate development environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive efforts to test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and procedures for critical complex equipment operation for data center domain of expertise.
• Lead 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.
• Drive efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to ensure effective response to any excursions.
• Drive efforts to ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.
• Lead 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.

Skills

Project management

Data center operations

Facility operations

Education

Associate degree or related technical training

Bachelor's or Master's in Eng/Reliability

Job description

Google’s Data Center team designs and operates sophisticated electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems across global facilities. Facilities Technicians monitor, inspect, and repair data center systems, read blueprints, and support senior technicians to maintain optimal performance.

You will partner with engineering teams and vendors to ensure operability, reliability, and cost efficiency, while adhering to safety standards and best practices across sites.