Minimum qualifications:
- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in operations management and facilities management.
- Experience in critical facility operation management.
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-driven way.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
About the job
At Google, we aim to foster Googley work environments that are collaborative, friendly and fun. The Facilities Management team brings our spaces to life as you oversee the daily operations of our offices. While roles with similar names at other companies can be far more mundane, you're a creative, organized customer service specialist, who takes pride in seeing things run smoothly and efficiently. You go out of your way to make sure that clients are not only satisfied, but singing Google's praises. You're comfortable in a fast-paced environment with the highest standards of excellence. You aren't afraid to have fun with your job, and bring an enthusiasm, dedication and a collaborative spirit to build and maintain office spaces that facilitate some of the world's most cutting edge innovation.
The Third-Party Data Center Operations team provides technical due diligence for site selection, sustains and improves the quality of vendor operated data centers, and mitigates and resolves conflict for critical work risk. In this role, you will focus on reliable operation of the mechanical and electrical infrastructure of data centers, working closely with the vendor operator for success. You will be involved in colocation operations for 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 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.
- Perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party colocation sites.
- Own colocation sites facility operation within an area/region, with full accountability for this area tactically and strategically.
- Keep main stakeholders informed about current work and discuss strategic decisions and directions with them.
- Contribute to focus area strategy and setting strategy for smaller local groups.