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Google is investing heavily in building data centers that power its products and cloud services.
That, plus higher demand during the coronavirus pandemic, means it s hiring aggressively.
The firm is looking for workers with strong critical thinking and collaborative work skills.
On an average work day at one of Google s data center sites in Virginia, operations manager Dr. Nicole Henley conducts tasks like adding hard drives or swapping out memory on the machines, fixing bugs, or troubleshooting issues like downtime.
Google operates data centers in 9 countries worldwide, which power products like search, and has 24 cloud regions that provide services to Google Cloud customers.
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Data centre training, recruitment need to change to meet staffing demand
Data centre managers need to raise the profile of available job roles and rethink hiring tactics, according to executives from Google Data Centers and Compass Datacenters Credit: Dreamstime
As demand for data centre capacity has surged, owners and operators are struggling to keep pace on the employee side.
Improved outreach, more creative approaches to recruitment, and better training and education opportunities are needed to ensure the data centres can meet the astronomical anticipated demand for skilled people, said Rhonda Ascierto, vice president of research at Uptime Institute.
Uptime Institute Announces Industry s First Global Data Center Staffing Forecast Report
Digital Growth Fuels Strong Demand for Data Center Capacity, can Staffing Recruitment and Required Skill Sets Rise to the Challenge?
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SEATTLE, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Uptime Institute today announced the availability of its Global Data Center Staffing Forecast 2021-2025, the digital infrastructure industry s first comprehensive forecast of workforce needs by region, by data center type, and by staff minimum education requirements.
Data center staff requirements are forecast to grow globally from about 2 million full-time employees in 2019 to nearly 2.3 million by 2025.
In every geographic region, data center capacity is dramatically expanding in a build-out of historic proportions. That requires people to design, build and operate data centers. The availability (or lack) of specialist staff will be an increasing concern for all types of data ce
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