Minimum qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with installing a Network or Linux system.
• Ability to communicate in English fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with the basic concepts of Network and Linux systems.
• Ability to understand and develop data center architectures, products, system design, operations, maintenance, and procedures.
• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to use tools to produce highly accurate analyses that ensure designs satisfy safety requirements.
• Available to work full time for a minimum of 6 months outside of university term time.

About the job

Behind Google’s simple search box is one of the most complex technology infrastructures in the world. And behind that infrastructure is a diverse group of Googlers who design, build and keep the lights on for our users.

Our Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future, and our Technical, Engineering, and Support teams bring ideas to life. The teams use creative approaches to reduce operational costs and to extend traditional practices to meet our goal of making our data centers the most energy efficient and environmentally sustainable in the world.

The Hardware Operations team is the team in the Data Center responsible for monitoring, maintaining and deploying the state-of-the-art physical infrastructure behind Google's powerful search technology.

Operations Engineers deploy and maintain Google's advanced Data Center Server and Network Infrastructure. Their duties range from the physical deployment of data center-related technology to working closely with the various stakeholders. This team offers a great introduction to the wider engineering world at Google.

Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to address some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to repairs, upgrades, deployments, cabling.
• Identify trends for machine failure, report bugs and work with remote teams to resolve them. 
• Communicate effectively with clients and partners.
• Contribute to projects in deployment and maintenance, and provide support of current and new data center infrastructure.
• Configure and troubleshoot Linux OS-related challenges on our servers, and resolve critical or escalated technical challenges over a significant population of affected equipment.