Data Center Technician

Google

3.8

(162)

Toronto, Canada

Why you should apply for a job to Google:

  • 56% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 77% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Generous parental and caregiver leave along with fertility and growing family support.
  • Flexible work options that include a hybrid work model, four “work from anywhere” weeks, and remote work opportunities.
  • A chance to be a part of a variety of employee resource groups, community groups, and culture clubs.
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    Position summary

    unicate in English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

    About the job

    The Hardware Operations team is responsible for monitoring, maintaining and deploying the state-of-the-art physical infrastructure behind Google's powerful search technology. As a Data Center Technician, you'll deploy and maintain Google's advanced Data Center Server and Network Infrastructure. You'll also participate in or lead local project teams on larger installations and develop project contingency plans.

    In this role, duties range from the physical deployment of data center-related technology to working closely with the various stakeholders. It will fall to you to ensure that our goals, missions and projects are successfully delivered, and, more importantly, that they are repeatable across our global array of data centers. This position offers a great introduction to the wider engineering world at Google. Depending of your area of interest, capabilities, and geographical mobility, you will have the opportunity to develop either within Hardware Operations or move towards software development, engineering, networking operations or our project management groups.

    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 software developers, developers 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

    • Deploy and operate new data center infrastructure across teams.

    • Report issues and follow data center procedures to troubleshoot and diagnose somewhat complex issues with equipment or infrastructure as they arise, and apply the resources needed to resolve identified issues.

    • Maintain the security and integrity of data, track various forms of media to check for non-standard data security issues (e.g., data was not properly erased) handled in accordance with Google security standards.

    • Disassemble specific equipment that has reached its end-of-life via part replacement or maintenance, within one or more teams.

    • Repair, fix, and perform preventative maintenance on equipment, servers, machines, or infrastructure based on identified issues with multiple solutions, independently.

    Why you should apply for a job to Google:

  • 56% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 77% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Generous parental and caregiver leave along with fertility and growing family support.
  • Flexible work options that include a hybrid work model, four “work from anywhere” weeks, and remote work opportunities.
  • A chance to be a part of a variety of employee resource groups, community groups, and culture clubs.