Data Center Site Manager, Third-Party Data Centers Operations

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 Site Manager for Google's Third-Party Data Centers Operations (3PDCOps) team, you will be 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.

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.
• Engage stakeholders to ensure they are informed about current work and discuss decisions.
• Oversee technical and team leads through the completion of required maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair tasks to maintain equipment to our global standard.