About the job

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

You will provide occasional on-call support to the global third-party data center operation, support the risk management program by escalating findings to ensure business awareness and provide prompt mitigation strategies. You will manage documents and trend relevant Operations and Maintenance (O&M) data and contribute to Global program initiatives. You will oversee technical and team leads through the successful completion of required maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair tasks to maintain equipment to the global standard and perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party party co-location facility (COLO) sites, while also supporting the site selection process through operational and technical knowledge.
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.

Responsibilities

• Own COLO facility operation within an area/region, with full accountability for this area tactically and strategically.

• Keep key stakeholders informed about current work and are able to discuss strategic decisions and directions with them while coordinating the planning of critical activities.

• Analyze and de-conflict regional COLO work notification and change requests to ensure successful completion of planned and reactive maintenance within COLO sites.

• Provide technical support for mini-cluster COLO sites within a region and act as liaison between the COLO provider and cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Respond to critical events and alarms in accordance with contractual obligations while providing technical expertise during incidents.

Minimum qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 9 years of experience in operations management and facilities management.

• Experience in critical facility operation management.

• Ability to communicate in English fluently to work with local and other internal stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working in data center environments, including building and operating infrastructure.

• Experience with initiating and executing initiatives in a global environment.

• Ability to perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party sites.

• Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-motivated way.

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Passion for operations and people management.