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Google Hiring for Systems Administrator, Chrome Labs at San Francisco, CA Full Time

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Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Mountain View, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.
Remote location(s): United States.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of Windows, Linux, and/or Mac administration.
  • 4 years of experience using programming/scripting languages (such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, Go, etc.) for automation.
  • Experience with virtualization (VMWare, Google Cloud, etc).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience supporting environments with a wide variety of devices.
  • Experience with Windows in a heterogeneous environment.
  • Experience with managing and optimizing large machine deployments.
  • Experience with and knowledge of LAN/WAN and mobile computing environments.

About the job

Systems Administrators embrace Google’s motto to ensure millions of users can access the world’s information without a glitch. As a Systems Administrator at Google, you own and support the needs of one of Google’s server infrastructure systems. You’re highly technical and work directly with other server and service owners to ensure reliability and sustainability of the Google service infrastructure as well as compliance with internal policies. Success in this role means you are able to support servers in a mixed operating system environment and work efficiently with our internal technology providers as well as other operations groups. Googlers rely on your guidance when it comes to design decisions so you’ll have a direct impact in keeping the business productive.

You participate in and lead strategic projects that span multiple domains with the goal of improving operational efficiencies and creating design solutions for 3rd party technology limitations. As a leader of the team, you help your teammates refine their technical skills, perhaps by leading brown bag sessions or tech talks, and act as the final escalation point for on-call issues.

In this role, you will support Chrome Browser build and test lab environments. Come help us support the wide variety of devices used to build and test Chrome Browser, allowing us to deliver the best browser on the planet!

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google’s product portfolio possible. We’re proud to be our engineers’ engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.


Additional Information

(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $118,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

  • Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.


Responsibilities

  • Support a wide variety of devices including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS enabling our continuous build and test environments.
  • Manage virtual instances in VMWare, Google Compute Engine, and Kubernetes.
  • Participate in an interrupts rotation.
  • Keep our documentation up to date.
  • Diagnose issues with hardware devices when needed.

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 Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Job Overview

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  • Job Title: Google Hiring for Systems Administrator, Chrome Labs at San Francisco, CA