Data Center Operations Lead, Sovereign Operations

16 hours ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Google Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field such as Computer Networking, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in a data center or facilities environment working with data center equipment/environments, including switchgear, generators, chillers, cooling towers, air handling units, controls, security monitoring systems and fire safety systems.
  • Experience with reliability centered maintenance and Engineering.
  • Eligibility to obtain UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance; British Citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience communicating effectively with all levels of the organization, including executives.
  • Experience managing vendor relationships, including performance management.
  • Understanding of start up/commissioning processes.
  • Understanding of power and HVAC requirements for high-availability data centers.
  • Ability to forecast requirements in a data-driven way.
About the job:
As the Data Center Operations Lead, you will oversee tactical operations of UK colocation facilities and air-gapped cloud operations centers for Google Public Sector's private cloud services, managing colocation provider relationships, co-ordinating operational and project work, leading facility fit-out projects to meet capacity demands, and working with SovOps teammates to plan capacity expansion and co-ordinate logistics with hardware suppliers across multiple projects.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead multiple colocation provider data centers as the data center site lead for the UK SovOps team's Operations Centers.
  • Manage relationships with data center providers, actively tracking performance against KPIs.
  • Co-ordinate Data Center Ops work schedules across colocation providers, including scheduling changes, operational risk assessments, and stakeholder communications.
  • Support new site selection processes through operational and technical knowledge.
  • Oversee colocation data center fit-outs to ensure Google standards are met, enabling rapid commissioning of new capacity and smooth hand off operational teams.

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