Data Center Technician (English)

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The Hardware Operations team is responsible for building and maintaining physical infrastructure behind Google's systems.

In this role, you will install, configure, test, troubleshoot, and maintain hardware (e.g., servers and their components) and interact with server software (e.g., Google's Linux clusters). You will deploy and maintain Google's advanced data center server and network infrastructure.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

Contribute and lead efforts/projects in the deployment, maintenance, and support of current and new data center infrastructure.
Lead complex troubleshooting, and resolve critical or escalated technical issues.
Help test and troubleshoot new server hardware components and designs.
Configure and troubleshoot Linux OS-related issues on servers.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Experience with LPIC or working with Linux (e.g., Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo), Unix (e.g., Solaris, Advanced Interactive Executive (AIX), Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)), or a related operating system.
Experience with troubleshooting hardware/network issues using Linux tools.
Ability to communicate in English fluently to interact with stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

Knowledge of intermediate operating system, computer hardware and networking concepts, tools and protocols.
Ability to lift/move heavy equipment as required.
Ability to travel up to 50% and work on occasional holiday shifts and off hours.