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 maintain, troubleshoot, and repair automation equipment. Next to this, you will monitor several data centers from a central control room, ensuring quick response and minimum recovery time from failures. You will also troubleshoot problems, do repairs on critical equipment, and supervise contractors to deliver quality service.
You'll work in an international environment in the northern part of the Netherlands.

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

• Perform data center maintenance and (complex) repair tasks in the Controls/Automation Domain: Power Monitoring System (PMS), Building Monitoring System (BMS), Servers and IT infrastructure Control and Monitoring Systems, Operational Monitoring Systems.
  
• Install, maintain, and replace automation systems at key points in the process.
  
• Support commissioning, startup, and integration of new equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
  
• Follow, improve and develop templates for system analysis, diagnostic, preventive maintenance, and trend logs for data center critical facilities systems.
  
• Inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and SCADA management.