Third-Party Data Center Technical Operations Manager, Facilities, Maintenance
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 10, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 10, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.
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). 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 Data Center Technical Operations Manager, you will be involved in nearly every aspect of Third-Party Data Center operations of 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.
In this role, you will be the advocate for 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
- Own co-location (COLO) sites facility operation within an area/region, with full accountability for this area tactically and strategically.
- Provide technical support for mini-cluster (COLO) sites within a region.
- Keep main stakeholders informed about current work and discuss strategic decisions and directions with them.
- Provide technical expertise during incidents, and coordinate the planning of critical activities.
- Provide occasional oncall support to the global third-party data center operation.
Qualifications
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 Electrical, Mechanical/HVAC, or controls experience in an industrial or commercial environment.
- Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment, and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.
- Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.
Preferred qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or advanced education in a related field.
- 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.