
Director, Megasite Data Center Operations
Austin, TXJob$256–356K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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The Data Center Leader will lead operations teams responsible for the technical health and efficiency of Google’s megasite data centers, initially focusing on the Haskell, Texas site. The role oversees managers and technical teams, advances operational systems and processes, and contributes to a model for megascale data center operations that can be applied globally.
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Director, Megasite Data Center Operations
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical, mission-critical field.
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15 years of experience in technical management, including operational support.
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10 years of experience managing a team of 50 or more technical resources.
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Experience managing geographically distributed teams.
Preferred qualifications:
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5 years of experience managing managers.
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Experience managing a large organization of distributed teams larger than 100 individuals.
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Track record of top performance in prior roles, with increasing levels of scope and responsibility over time.
About the job
As the Data Center Leader of Google’s megasite data centers, you will lead a large team of talented electrical, mechanical, and controls technicians, plant engineers, operations managers, and program managers who are collectively responsible for the technical health and efficiency of Google’s Data Centers, the largest cloud computer in the world. Your initial focus will be our megasite in Haskell, Texas. Your responsibilities will extend to other hyperscale sites as these enter construction - ensuring a best practices approach to staffing and operating these sites, and leading or supporting the teams directly responsible for these sites.
You will need technical depth, management expertise, and leadership to develop, nurture, and guide multiple operations teams within a large, complex hyperscale data center. You will be a leader of managers, responsible for the team’s performance, well-being, and development, execution against KPIs, adherence to existing systems, tools, and processes; and defining and advancing future systems and processes.
You will need to contribute meaningfully to Google’s operational delivery of megascale sites, helping build a model that can be applied to data center sites across the globe.
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 force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge 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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $256000 - $356000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Lead the large-scale electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure operations of the data center campuses across one or more megasites.
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Mature Google’s operational strategy for megasites across the globe.
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Manage budget planning, resource planning, organizational development, maintenance, availability, efficiency, safety, and continuous improvement.
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Hire, coach, and develop a team of technical staff to meet goals.
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Drive the megasite turn-up including hiring, coaching, and team building.
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,238 open Data Center Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$256–356K/yr
- Texas median$126–192K/yr78 salary ranges
- US median$126–264K/yr977 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $306K, is 95% above the Texas median midpoint ($157K) — in the top quarter of Data Center Operations salary ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 117 open Data Center Operations jobs in Texas and 1,238 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Data Center Operations postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 898 postings).
- Education
- 178 of the 1,238 open Data Center Operations jobs (14%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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