JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in hardware, networking, operating systems, Linux, or project planning.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with hardware architecture, maintenance and repair.
- Knowledge of intermediate level Linux, including installation, systems administration and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of basic topology and protocol.
About the job
Our thirst for technology is a part of everything we do. The Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future. Our lab mirrors a research and development department — cutting-edge strategies are born, tested and tested again. Along with a team of great minds, you take on complex topics like how we use power or how to run state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You're a visionary who optimizes for efficiencies and never stops seeking improvements — even small changes that can make a huge impact. You generate ideas, communicate recommendations to senior-level executives and drive implementation alongside facilities technicians.
With your technical expertise, you ensure compliance with codes and standards, develop infrastructure improvements and serve as an expert in your specialty (e.g., cooling, electrical).
In this role, you will be part of the team that installs, troubleshoots and maintains hardware infrastructure for internet facing environments.
The AI and Infrastructure team works on the world's toughest problems, redefining what's possible and the possible easy. We empower Google customers by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Googler Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We're at the center of amazing work at Google by being the flywheel that enables our advanced AI models, delivers computing power across global services, and offers platforms that developers use to build services.
In AI and Infrastructure, we shape the future of hyperscale computing by inventing and creating world-leading future technology, and drive global impact by contributing to Google infrastructure, from software to hardware (including building Vertex AI for Google Cloud). We work on complex technologies at a global scale with key players in the AI and systems space. Join a team of talented individuals who not only work together to keep data centers operating efficiently but also create a legacy of driving innovation by building some of the most complex systems technologies.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and repair servers, networking and storage devices, such as replacing hard drives, replacing RAM, swapping CPUs, motherboards, etc.
- Lead troubleshooting and resolving critical or escalated technical issues over a significant population of affected hardware equipment.
- Contribute and lead efforts/projects in the deployment, maintenance, and support of current and new data center servers and network infrastructure.
- Perform active infrastructure upgrades and decommission end of life equipment as needed.
- Follow the site's environmental health and safety policies.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
