Freelance Google Data Center Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

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Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in Industrial Engineering, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Reliability Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in electrical, mechanical/HVAC, or controls experience in an industrial/commercial environment.
• 5 years of experience in a data center or facilities environment.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Reliability Engineering or equivalent technical experience.
• Experience communicating effectively with all levels of the organization, including executives.
• Experience with reliability centered maintenance and engineering.
• Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-driven way.

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 Site Manager for Google's Data Centers Operations team, you will be involved in nearly every aspect of operations for electrical, cooling, and IT infrastructure. You will partner with the Google Data Center engineering teams, hardware operations, network infrastructure and vendors and operators with a focus on operability, maintainability and reliability. In this role, you will represent the operations organization, and be responsible to ensure operability, maintainability and reliability are critical criteria for Google assets.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.
We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $164000 - $238000 (USD) 20% bonus target bonus equity benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities

• Support site selection process through operational and technical knowledge.
• Perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party co-location sites.
• Own co-location sites facility operation within an area/region, with full accountability for this area tactically.
• Engage stakeholders to ensure they are informed about current work and discuss decisions.
• Oversee technical and team leads through the completion of required maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair tasks to maintain equipment to our global standard.

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