Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with troubleshooting hardware/network issues using Linux tools.
- Experience with LPIC or working with Linux (e.g., Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo), Unix (e.g., Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, BSD), or other similar OS (Windows).
- Understanding of intermediate OS, PC hardware and networking concepts, tools and protocols.
- Ability to lift/move heavy equipment as needed.
- Ability to communicate in English fluently.
- Ability to start from 2025.
About the job
The Hardware Operations team is responsible for building and maintaining physical infrastructure behind Google's systems.
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As a Data Center Technician, you will install, configure, test, troubleshoot, and maintain hardware (e.g., servers and their components) and interact with server software (e.g., Google's Linux clusters). You will also deploy and maintain Google's advanced data center server and network infrastructure.
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.
Responsibilities
- Contribute efforts/projects in the deployment, maintenance, and support of current and new data center infrastructure.
- Provide troubleshooting, and resolve critical or escalated technical issues.
- Help test and troubleshoot new server hardware components and designs.
- Configure and troubleshoot Linux OS-related issues on servers.