Meta Network Engineer, ENS Strategic Lead
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
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. They will also be comfortable in a fast-moving organization working across diverse stakeholders within physical infrastructure, network design, engineering, deployment, and operations, strategy, security, policy, and legal teams to solve urgent and long-term initiatives.
Required Skills:
- 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. Drive operational excellence in everything we do by modeling the behavior.
- 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 across global sites.
- 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.
- Technical Guidance: Provide technical leadership and guidance to 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, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of work experience with designing, deploying, and/or operating large-scale data center network infrastructure.
- 10+ years of work experience with structured cabling and fiber optic infrastructure.
- 5+ years of work experience partnering with enterprise and service provider network hardware platforms.
- Knowledge of the data center design, construction, and start up/commissioning processes.
- Project Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional teams.
- Network Protocol Expertise: Demonstrate Intermediate level subject matter expertise.
- Optical and Transport Expertise: Demonstrate Intermediate level subject matter expertise in terrestrial telecommunication networks.
- Experience successfully collaborating across their own team and with cross-functional partners.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading and managing technical teams.
- Experience partnering with Original Device Manufacturers (ODMs).
- Expert level knowledge of network protocols or Optical and Transport.
- Software Systems Leadership: Experience in organizational and digital transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrate 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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