I know it’s been too long since I posted something new on my blog. It’s been about 6 weeks since the last post. Yet, I’m back now and I do have some great news I want to cover in a series of post. The first of the great news is that I got a promotion! As of November 1, 2025 I will be a L3 Data Center Technician (DT) at Google. I worked with my manager for the past year on this move. I had to not only improve on my networking a new skill-set, but become highly proficient in it. And this was in addition of taking on additional leaderships roles not only on my team, but within my site.
Since I got a promotion what does that change regarding my daily duties? Not much. Since I’ve worked as a L3 Data Center Technician for the past several months leading up to applying for the promotion what I have to do now is building upon my leadership and influence duties. I also have to sign up to join the on-call rotation, but I’ve done that before when I worked at the Twitter data center. However, I haven’t been on-call in a few years so that will be an readjustment. Oh, I did forget that I have to take on more of a mentorship role for the L1 and L2 DTs at my site. Some of them want advice on how they can progress in their career.
Speaking of career, moving to a L3 role at Google now allows me to progress into a different technical role at the company. Including Software Engineering which is what I am interested in. As my manager told me when he gave me the great news last week now the hard work begins. Why? Because I need to figure out how to progress my career at Google. Does that mean I take on a 20 percent role and help out another team to earn experience? Or do I work on my own to develop that experience? I know this: I need to find a mentor again at the company in roles I’m interested in. That will really help with my career progression, in addition to my manager’s help.