- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in Controls/Automation in an industrial or commercial environment.
- Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts, covering nights, weekends, and holidays.
- Ability to communicate in German fluently to engage in day-to-day operations and with colleagues.
- Industry standard certifications related to system administration (e.g. CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Certified Windows or Linux system administrator).
- 2 years of experience in controls/automation, or construction/technical environment or a related field.
- Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
- Proficiency in scripting language.
- Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, relays and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
- Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (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 Technician, you will ensure 24/7 reliability of our physical infrastructure, moving beyond general maintenance, your primary focus is the 'nervous system' of the data center: managing the Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) interfaces, and critical alarm logic that control our power and cooling. You will provide technical support by interpreting ladder logic and sequence of operations, troubleshooting control anomalies, and managing the commissioning and integration of new controls equipment. In this role, you ensure the facility’s logic systems operate with the same precision as the physical hardware.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 behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of 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.
- Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, PLCs, system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and 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, monitoring, logging, and alarming 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.
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