Data Center Facilities Technician, Controls Server Floor

1 Month ago • 2-4 Years • Facilities Management • $73,500 PA - $103,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician, Controls Server Floor, is responsible for inspecting, maintaining, and repairing various data center systems, including servers, network equipment, PLCs, and SCADA management. They provide daily assistance to senior technicians, reading blueprints and schematics, conducting system tours, and assessing their working order. This role involves controlling, monitoring, and logging systems, responding to abnormal conditions, and supporting the integration of new controls equipment. The ideal candidate will have experience in controls/automation, a related technical field, and strong troubleshooting skills. They will ensure environmental and safety standards are met, and will manage data center performance issues in emergency situations.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2 years Controls/Automation experience
  • Ability to lift 50 lbs
  • Data center system maintenance
  • Troubleshooting skills
  • Blueprint/schematic reading
Good to have:
  • Industry standard certifications (CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+)
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants
  • Knowledge of meters, sensors, and relays
  • Scripting language proficiency
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in Controls/Automation in an industrial or commercial environment.
  • Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs of equipment, the required use of OSHA standard safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Industry standard certifications related to system administration (e.g. CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Certified Windows or Linux system administrator).
  • 2 years of experience in controls/automation, or construction/technical environment or a related field.
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
  • Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, relays and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
  • Scripting language proficiency.
  • Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.

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 Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for our data centers.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $73,500-$103,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, PLCs, system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and SCADA management.
  • Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/ladder logic/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
  • Control, monitoring, logging, and alarming systems.
  • Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
  • Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

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