Meta Network Engineer, ENS Strategic Lead - Hartford, Connecticut
Meta is seeking a forward-thinking leader with advanced technical and operational expertise to join the Edge & Network Service (ENS) team. In this role, you will oversee a portfolio of data center infrastructure services and lead initiatives to improve reliability, efficiency, and risk management in one of the most dynamic fast-paced networks in the world. The right candidate will enjoy digging into complex problems in order to align and implement technical and business solutions via hands-on network engineering leadership, automation, process improvement, and data analysis.
Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Provide expert root cause and corrective action leadership to resolve any and all design, deployment, and operational issues found across data center architectures, hardware platforms, and vendor performance.
- Operational Excellence and Team Leadership: Own the planning and execution of an organizational-level strategy to deliver operational excellence.
- Innovation: Spearhead research and development of cutting-edge technologies and network topologies to optimize data center evolution and deployment.
- Change Management: Identify strategic problems and implement effective and efficient solutions across highly cross-functional infrastructure teams.
- Collaboration and Partnership: Work closely and foster relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure issues are being addressed proactively.
- New Product Introduction (NPI): Lead team process for network infrastructure within the Data Center.
- Incident Response: Drive work investigating complex technical and process issues on a global scale during major incidents/site events.
- Provide Technical Leadership: Improve design standards, technical references, training, and processes.
- Travel: International and Domestic travel may be required 25% to 40% of time based on project demand.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field.
- 10+ years of experience with designing, deploying, and/or operating large-scale data center network infrastructure.
- 10+ years of experience with structured cabling and fiber optic infrastructure.
- 5+ years of experience partnering with enterprise and service provider network hardware platforms.
- Knowledge of data center design, construction, and start-up processes.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving large-scale data center projects.
- Intermediate level expertise in TCP/IP, IPv4/v6, BGP, ISIS, OSPF, and/or MPLS.
- Intermediate level expertise in terrestrial telecommunication networks including DWDM.
- Experience collaborating across teams and with cross-functional partners.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading and managing technical teams as both an IC and a people manager.
- Experience partnering with Original Device Manufacturers (ODMs).
- Expert level knowledge of network protocols or Optical and Transport.
- Experience in organizational and digital transformation initiatives.
- Expert level knowledge of inside/outside plant cable design.
- Experience working with on-site construction teams and managing contractors.
Public Compensation:
$191,000/year to $271,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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