Data Center Facilities Technician Controls

Data Center Facilities Technician Controls

The Data Center team at Google 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. These duties include managing heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems. You will regularly inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components.

As an advocate for best practices, you will develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. You will ensure that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs quickly. In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures.

About The Role

As a Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for our data centers. The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible by empowering Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights through AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We are 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.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, PLCs, system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) management.
• Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/ladder logic/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
• Control, monitor, log, and alarm systems.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

Key skills/competency

• Data Center Facilities Technician
• Controls Systems
• Automation
• HVAC Systems
• Electrical Systems
• Mechanical Systems
• SCADA
• PLCs
• System Administration
• Troubleshooting