Technical Operations Manager, Third Party, Data Centers
Job Overview
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Date PostedMarch 26, 2026
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Job Description
2026-02-27T14:30:49.999Z
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Please submit your resume in English – we can only consider applications submitted in this language.
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/commercial environment.
Preferred qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or advanced education in a related field.
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.
In this role, you will be involved in nearly every aspect of colocation operations of our electrical, cooling, and Information Technology 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.
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
- Support the site selection process through operational and technical knowledge.
- Perform an operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party colocation sites.
- Own colocation sites facility operations within an area or region, with full accountability for this area tactically and strategically.
- Keep main stakeholders informed about current work and discuss decisions and directions with them.
- Oversee technical and team leads through the successful completion of required maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair tasks to maintain equipment to our global standard.
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.