Google welcomes people with disabilities. Minimum qualifications: + Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree. + Experience with troubleshooting hardware/network issues using Linux tools + Experience with LPIC or working with Linux (e.g., Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo), Unix (e.g., Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, BSD), or other similar OS (Windows). Preferred qualifications: + Understanding of intermediate OS, PC hardware and networking concepts, tools and protocols. + Ability to lift/move heavy equipment as needed. + Ability to start in 2026. The Hardware Operations team is responsible for building and maintaining physical infrastructure behind Google's systems. As a Data Center Technician, you will install, configure, test, troubleshoot, and maintain hardware (e.g., servers and their components) and interact with server software (e.g., Google's Linux clusters). You will also deploy and maintain Google's advanced data center server and network infrastructure. + Contribute efforts/projects in the deployment, maintenance, and support of current and new data center infrastructure. + Provide troubleshooting, and resolve critical, or escalated technical issues. + Help test and troubleshoot new server hardware components and designs. + Configure and troubleshoot Linux OS-related issues on servers. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.