Technical Operations Manager, Third-Party Data Centers

Responsibilities

The Technical Operations Manager is responsible for the tactical and strategic oversight of third-party co-location facility operations, including risk analysis and site selection support. They lead technical teams in maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair tasks to ensure global standards for operability and reliability are met.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 10 years of experience in electrical, mechanical, or HVAC industrial environments, with 5 years specifically in data centers. A minimum of an associate's degree or trade certification in a relevant engineering field is required.

Skills

• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• HVAC Systems
• Data Center Operations
• Critical Facilities Management
• Reliability Centered Maintenance
• Risk Analysis
• Operational Assessment
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Troubleshooting
• Preventive Maintenance
• Infrastructure Management
• Data-driven Forecasting
• Safety Standards Compliance

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Health Insurance

About this role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training
in Industrial Engineering, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Engineering
Management, Reliability Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
* 10 years of experience in Electrical, Mechanical/HVAC, or controls experience
in an industrial/commercial environment.
* 5 years of experience in a data center or critical facilities environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical or Mechanical
Engineering, Engineering Management, Reliability Engineering, or equivalent
practical experience.
* Experience communicating effectively with all levels of the organization,
including senior executives.
* Experience with reliability centered maintenance and engineering.
* Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-driven way.

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). You provide daily assistance to
senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems
and assess their working order.

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 Data Center Technical Operations Manager, you will be deeply involved in
nearly every aspect of co-location operations of our electrical, cooling, and IT
infrastructure. You will partner with the Google Data Center engineering teams,
hardware operations, network infrastructure and third-party data center vendors
and operators with a focus on operability, maintainability and reliability. In
this role, you will represent the operations organization, and will be
responsible to ensure operability, maintainability and reliability are critical
criteria for Google assets.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Support site selection process through operational and technical knowledge.
* Perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third party co-location
sites.
* Own co-location sites facility operation within an area/region, with full
accountability for this area tactically and strategically.
* Engage stakeholders to ensure they are informed about current work and
discuss strategic decisions.
* Oversee technical and team leads through the successful completion of
required maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair tasks to maintain equipment
to our global standard.

About Google

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