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Senior Facilities Technician, Electrical
GoogleSunnyvale, CA, USASenior5+ years
Apply Minimum qualifications:
- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with assembly of mechanical or electrical systems, or performing component-level repairs and troubleshooting on technical equipment.
- Experience with diagnosing and troubleshooting operating systems, computer hardware and server hardware.
- Experience with networking protocols.
- Ability to work non-standard hours, including working weekends, night shifts, holidays and on shift-based schedules as required.
Preferred qualifications:
- 4 years of experience in maintenance and monitoring of server systems.
- Experience with performing component-level repairs and troubleshooting on IT equipment or in a similar role (e.g., systems administration, network deployment engineer, help desk technician, etc.).
- Experience working within a data center or network operation center environment.
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).
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.
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Belgium: €78000 - €80000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Support commissioning and integration of new equipment and systems into a new facilities infrastructure.
- Inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems.
- Operate, monitor, maintain and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
- Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate decisions.
- Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of electrical distribution systems and power monitoring.
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