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Data Center Technician Intern, 2026

Posted on Jan. 1, 2026 by Google

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Data Center Technician Intern, 2026

Please check for opportunities in the global office closest to where you are located. The benefit to our international recruiters handling your application is that these recruiters are best versed in hiring for all of our major global offices. Please continue to check back for additional opportunities as our hiring needs are always changing.

Click the “Apply” button to submit your resume (a cover letter is not required).

Please submit your resume in English and include your grade level, expected graduation date (month and year), and availability for the internship. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application. We will accommodate your school schedule when determining the start date and duration. This internship will run from May/Jun 2026 to Jul/Aug 2026, for a consecutive 10-12 weeks.

Please complete your application before January 16, 2025.

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Information Technology, or similar technical area of study.
  • Experience installing a network or Linux system and with the basic concepts around these.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience or a practical understanding of Linux and Networking, including installation, systems administration, and troubleshooting.
  • Knowledge and experience with hardware architecture, maintenance and repair.
  • Knowledge of networking, including topology and protocol concepts.
  • Ability to learn new technical skills and domains.
  • Ability to work as a team member, and to collaborate with others to help resolve challenges.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

About the job

Our Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future, and our Technical, Engineering, and Support teams bring ideas to life. The teams use creative approaches to reduce operational costs and to extend traditional practices to meet our goal of making our data centers the most energy efficient and environmentally sustainable in the world.

The Hardware Operations team is the team in the Data Center responsible for monitoring, maintaining and deploying the physical infrastructure behind Google's powerful search technology. Operations Engineers deploy and maintain Google's advanced Data Center Server and Network Infrastructure. Their duties range from the physical deployment of data center-related technology to working closely with the various stakeholders. This team offers a great introduction to the wider engineering world at Google.

Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to address some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to repair, upgrades, decoms, deployment, cabling, etc.
  • Identify trends for machine failure, report bugs, and work with remote teams to resolve them.
  • Contribute to projects in deployment, maintenance, and provide support of data center infrastructure.
  • Configure and troubleshoot Linux OS related challenges on our servers, and resolve critical or escalated technical challenges over a significant population of affected equipment.
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.

Advertised until:
Jan. 31, 2026


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