Data Center Technician, Global Server Operations

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a data center environment or similar technical domain.
  
• Experience with computer hardware and server hardware or troubleshooting/diagnosing.
  
• Experience with operating systems and networking infrastructures.
  
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time internationally.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in maintenance and monitoring of server systems.
  
• Experience with Linux operating systems.
  
• Experience in project management and leadership.
  
• Ability to collaborate and partner with teams to overcome challenges.
  

About the job

The Hardware Operations team is responsible for monitoring the physical infrastructure behind Google's powerful search technology. As a Data Center Technician, you will be part of a team that installs, configures, tests, troubleshoots, and maintains hardware and networking infrastructure to support the Google production of IT infrastructure. You'll participate in or lead small project teams on larger installations and develop project contingency plans. A typical day involves installation of racks and machines daily, and troubleshooting faulty infrastructure components.

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

• Contribute to efforts/projects in the deployment, maintenance, and support of current and new data center servers and network infrastructure.
• Install and maintain switches, routers, and other large-scale networking hardware.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolve critical or escalated technical issues regarding affected equipment.
  
• Help test and troubleshoot new server hardware components and designs.
  
• Configure and troubleshoot OS-related issues on the server.