Senior Data Center Engineer, Electrical Engineering
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in mission-critical facility design and construction environments.
- Experience in electrical infrastructure.
- Experience in managing data center infrastructure and fit out projects and managing partners and stakeholders. Experience with vendor management, and with the use and customization of project management tools.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in estimating, electrical design, operation, and commissioning of substations, switchgear, ATP/ATS, emergency power systems and their control systems, power monitoring, and electrical protection.
- Experience in design, construction, and commissioning of high voltage substations, medium or low voltage electrical distribution systems, AC/DC systems, and associated power management or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) tools.
- Experience working with data center equipment and environments (e.g., switchgear, generators, transformers, controls, security monitoring systems, fire safety systems), with a strong understanding of start up/commissioning processes.
- Experience with medium voltage systems.
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).
Our Data Center Delivery and Engineering (DCDE) team is a collection of architectural design experts, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, construction project managers, water/air specialist, data center services managers, and project controls managers who plan, design, and construct the most efficient data centers in the world. Our mission is to Reliably design and deliver the world’s leading technical infrastructure by building and supporting the operation of safe, fast, affordable, scalable, and sustainable Data Center capacity to Google. We are dedicated to fostering a spirit of superior performance and shared partnership to be the partner of choice to provide needed Data Center capacity.It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.
Responsibilities
- Work with partners, customers and key stakeholders to develop and articulate Electrical and Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) design plans and long-term strategy. Initiate new programs in response to need and be the catalyst for winning support.
- Manage various programs of work, engage teams and engineers, set the pace for development, deployment and delivery of data center services and infrastructure. Develop, prepare electrical calculation, MEP calculation, product selection criteria, project documentation, quality check documents, code and compliances metrics, process maps, presentations and tracking reports to provide detailed current status of each project.
- Be knowledgeable of power substation design, implementation and permitting processes and use technical judgment for decision making and to drive project delivery, technology reviews, challenge proposals and build consensus.
- Analyze service performance and system performance data and translate into recommendations and actionable plans.
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