Data Center Technician

1 week ago

Centurion, South Africa Google Full time

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with computer hardware and server hardware or troubleshooting/diagnosing.
- Experience with operating systems and networking infrastructures.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time internationally.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience in maintenance and monitoring of server systems.
- Experience with Linux operating systems.
- Experience in project management and leadership.
- Ability to collaborate and partner with teams to overcome challenges.

**About the job**:
The Hardware Operations team is responsible for monitoring the state-of-the-art physical infrastructure behind Google's powerful search technology. As a Data Center Technician, you will be part of a team that installs, configures, tests, troubleshoots, and maintains hardware and networking infrastructure to support the Google production of IT infrastructure. You will participate in or lead small project teams on larger installations and develop project contingency plans. A typical day involves installation of racks and machines daily, as well as troubleshooting faulty infrastructure components.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We are 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.

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**:

- Lead troubleshooting and resolve critical or escalated technical issues regarding affected equipment.
- Contribute to and lead efforts/projects in the deployment, maintenance, and support of Google Cloud region (cloud data center) infrastructure.
- Help test and troubleshoot new server hardware components and designs.
- Configure and troubleshoot OS-related issues on server.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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