Technical Operations Compliance Manager

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Associates degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience in technical compliance, facility management, or operations for data centers and mission-critical facilities.
• Experience with critical data center infrastructure, specifically power distribution, cooling systems, and safety protocols.
• Experience leading and fronting both internal and external compliance audits for technical facilities.
• Ability to travel up to 50% across the EMEA region to conduct site visits and audits.
• Experience validating and executing Integrated Operational Readiness Drills (iORD) and emergency response simulations.
• Experience reviewing and verifying technical maintenance logs and documentation from third-party service providers to ensure Service Level Agreement (SLA) adherence.
• Familiarity with emerging European regulations and international operational standards relevant to data center compliance.
• Ability to develop comprehensive audit plans and use analytical dashboards to communicate risk tiers to executive management.
• Demonstrated ability to drive operational resilience, identify deficiencies in infrastructure failover, and maintain peak performance across third-party facility partnerships.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary Third-Party Data Center Operations (3PDCOPs) representative for all CAP audits, coordinating with local managers to demonstrate site operational resilience.
• Develop audit plans and verify service provider evidence, like maintenance logs, to ensure critical infrastructure is properly serviced.
• Partner with the CAP team to address deficiencies, applying risk-based tools to prioritize issues, set remediation deadlines, and ensure compliance.
• Track drill outcomes and simulations (e.g., ORD/iORD) to document improvements and ensure resilience exercises are executed to standard.
• Deliver detailed reports and use analytic dashboards to communicate audit trends, site performance, and overall EMEA compliance posture to leadership.
• Operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions across Google data centers, including heating and cooling systems, power supply, generators, UPS systems, and electrical distribution and control systems.
• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical components.
• Provide daily assistance to senior technicians by reading blueprints and schematics, conducting system tours, and assessing working order.
• Develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency.
• Ensure environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identify problems, and make repairs quickly.
• Manage data center performance issues and outages during emergency or abnormal conditions to minimize recovery time from failures.

Technologies:

• Support

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hackajob is partnering directly with Google to hire for this role. We are part of Googles Technical Infrastructure team, building and maintaining the architecture that keeps our products running, from data centers to next-generation platforms. Our Data Center team designs and operates highly sophisticated electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems, and our Facility Technicians support the physical conditions that keep our sites running reliably. This role sits within the Technical Operations Manager function in Third-Party Data Center Operations EMEA, where we focus on digital operational resilience, safety, and regulatory compliance across third-party partnerships. We offer salary ranges by country, a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits. Google welcomes people with disabilities.

last updated 35 week of 2026