Technical Operations Manager, Data Center Tech (English, Portuguese)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in Electrical, Mechanical/HVAC, or Controls/Automation experience in an industrial/commercial environment.
• 5 years of experience in a data center or facilities environment.
• Ability to communicate and write in English and Portuguese fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, or Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Reliability Centered Maintenance and in Engineering.
• Experience communicating effectively with all levels of the organization, including executives.
• Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-driven way.

About The Job

As a Data Center Technical Operations Manager, you will be deeply involved in nearly every aspect of Colocation operations of our electrical, cooling, and IT infrastructure. You will partner with the Google data center engineering team, Hardware operations, Network Infrastructure and third party data center vendors and operators with a focus on Operability, Maintainability and Reliability. In this role, you will represent the operations organization, and will be responsible to ensure Operability, Maintainability and Reliability are critical criteria for Google assets.
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.

Responsibilities

• Support site selection process through operational and technical knowledge.
• Perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third party co-location sites.
• Own co-location sites facility operation within an area/region, with full accountability for this area tactically and strategically.
• Keep main stakeholders informed about current work and discuss strategic decisions and directions with them.
• Oversee technical and team leads through the successful completion of required maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair tasks to maintain equipment to our global standard.