Data Center Technician, Engineering Field Services

Minimum qualifications:

• Experience in hardware, networking, operating systems, Linux, or project planning.
• Experience with hardware and operating systems (e.g. Linux) and networking protocols.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Knowledge of basic topology and protocol.
• Advanced level Linux skills, including installation, systems administration and troubleshooting.

About The Job
Our thirst for technology is a part of everything we do. The Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future. Our lab mirrors a research and development department -- cutting-edge strategies are born, tested and tested again. Along with a team of great minds, you take on complex topics like how we use power or how to run state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You're a visionary who optimizes for efficiencies and never stops seeking improvements -- even small changes that can make a huge impact. You generate ideas, communicate recommendations to senior-level executives and drive implementation alongside facilities technicians.

With your technical expertise, you ensure compliance with codes and standards, develop infrastructure improvements and serve as an expert in your specialty (e.g., cooling, electrical).

In this role, you will be part of the team that installs, troubleshoots and maintains hardware infrastructure for Internet facing environments.

The AI and Infrastructure team works on the world's toughest problems, redefining what's possible and the possible easy. We empower Google customers by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Googler Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We're at the center of amazing work at Google by being the "flywheel" that enables our advanced AI models, delivers computing power across global services, and offers platforms that developers use to build services.

In AI and Infrastructure, we shape the future of hyperscale computing by inventing and creating world-leading future technology, and drive global impact by contributing to Google infrastructure, from software to hardware (including building Vertex AI for Google Cloud). We work on complex technologies at a global scale with key players in the AI and systems space. Join a team of talented individuals who not only work together to keep data centers operating efficiently but also create a legacy of driving innovation by building some of the most complex systems technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing maintenance and repairs including servers, networking and storage devices, such as replacing hard drives, replace RAM, swap CPUs, motherboards, etc.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolve critical or escalated technical issues over a significant population of affected hardware equipment.
• Contribute and lead efforts/projects in the deployment, maintenance, and support of current and new data center servers and network infrastructure.
• Perform active infrastructure upgrades and decommission end of life equipment as required.
• Follow the site's environmental health and safety policies.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .