Data Center Facilities Technician I, Mechanical
Google · Cedar Rapids, IA
About this role
Google is hiring a mid-level Data Center Engineer in the operations function based in Cedar Rapids, IA. The posting calls out experience with GCP, Observability, Vertex AI. Compensation is listed at $95,000–$134,000 per year.
- Role
- Data Center Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Cedar Rapids, IA
- Posted
- May 6, 2026
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Job description
from Google careersThe Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and HVAC systems in the world. Facilities Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions. Some of these duties will include heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution and control and monitoring systems. You regularly help inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components).
As an advocate for best practices, you develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. You ensure that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs quickly. In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.
As a Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for our data centers.