Operations Manager, Third-party Data Center

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in Critical Facility Operation Management.
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience working in data center environments (e.g., building and operating infrastructure).
- Experience with managing and executing initiatives in a global environment.
- Ability to perform operational assessments and risk analysis of third-party sites.
- Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-driven way.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.

**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. Facility Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions. Some 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'll provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints or schematics, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.

You will 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 Data Center Technical Operations Manager, you will partner with the Google data center engineering team, hardware operations, network infrastructure, and third-party data center extended workforce with a focus on operability, maintainability, and reliability. You will be the advocate of the operations organization, and be responsible to ensure operability, maintainability, and reliability are critical criteria for Google assets.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

**Responsibilities**:

- Support site selection process through operational and technical knowledge.
- Own sites facility operation within an area or region, with full accountability for this area tactically and strategically.
- Keep stakeholders informed about current work, and discuss strategic decisions and directions with them.
- Act as liaison between provider and cross-functional teams of stakeholders.

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.