Network Engineer, Foundations and Support

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Meta is seeking a Network Operations Engineer to support field services for its Edge and Network Services team, focusing on hyperscale data center cabling, fiber connectivity, IP networking, and operational support. The role drives incident response, change management, risk management, automation, data measurement, and cross-functional delivery across global network infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Incident Response: Drive work investigating complex technical and process issues on a global scale spanning multiple reliability, security, and continuity disciplines for infra during major incidents/site events (SEVs) on edge, caching, and network infrastructure. This will require you to work closely and effectively with a variety of cross functional teams, managed service providers, and third-party vendor partners
• Change Management: You will be integral to identifying problems and implementing effective change within security & business continuity issues that affect the network, edge, and Infrastructure at Meta. This may include driving initiatives regarding improvements to existing tools & processes and providing feedback on new policies, practices, procedures in order to scale with the rapid expansion of the Meta platform and customer base
• Operational Experience: As an operations practitioner within the ENS team you will be expected to drive operational efficiency in everything we do. In this role you will directly or indirectly oversee a large contingent workforce responsible for delivering roadmapped projects and executing on recurring operational activities. As such, identifying improvement opportunities across policies, processes, and procedures is essential to improve efficiency and quality of the activities. You will optimize service delivery with a keen focus on standards compliance across the network
• Team Leadership: Set team goals and work globally with cross-functional teams within and outside the organization to deliver business outcomes predictability across global sites. This also includes analysis around operational datasets to detect and inform the prioritization of problems to resolve. This often culminates in the creation and communication of aligned team projects, programs, and roadmaps
• Risk Management: Work with partner teams to design and implement aligned processes that identify and manage data and asset protection risks (i.e, security and privacy gaps, Business Continuity vulnerabilities), as well as operations continuity issues across the network
• Information and Data Assurance: Ensure relevant operational process, procedure, and policy documentation is effectively managed and the data required to support operations is complete and accurate in systems
• Automation: Be heavily involved in driving the team to analyze operational events in order to identify new automation opportunities and help us achieve our vision of all Tier-1 faults in the network being fully remediated by software. This will include helping others understand our requirements and drive their roadmaps, in some cases, directly implementing light weight solutions in code
• Data Measurement: As an operations practitioner supporting our network, you will be expected to drive quality into the metrics we report to assist us in focusing on the areas that give us the best return on investment. This could include measurement and analysis of our escalation issues, fault/event trends, infrastructure capacity, and vendor performance failures. You should have the experience to formulate the right metrics and definitions of success to drive quality, efficiency, cost, and timeliness, and evolve these over time to match changes to the infrastructure and business requirements
• Communication: provide clear and effective communication around personal and team goals, progress, outcomes, and lessons learned across assigned scope
• Travel: International and Domestic travel may be required 25% of the time and up to 50% of time depending on needs of the business

Preferred

• Experience moving technical or engineering programs and products from inception to delivery and experience articulating the impact using metrics
• Direct leadership experience with global Network Operations Center (NOC) environments and managing Service Level Agreements and continuous improvement against metrics at scale
• Experience with purchasing, negotiating and end-to-end supplier management, such as managing global RFPs and contract negotiations
• Advanced executive leadership communications experience
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Technical Program Management
• Metrics Analysis
• Supplier Management
• RFP Management
• AI Integration
• Ethical AI Practices
• AI Skill Development
• Leadership
• Negotiation
• Continuous Improvement

Company

• Social networking and immersive augmented/virtual reality technologies.
• Menlo Park, California, USA
• https://www.meta.com/
• Founded in 2004
• 10001+ employees

Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
• 4+ years of work experience operating, deploying, and designing large-scale network, optical, and/or physical layer infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with a variety of optical/network communication equipment including optical amplifiers, coherent transponders, network/fiber/copper test gear and other WDM equipment as well as associated tools and test equipment
• 4 + years of network operations experience while supporting large-scale service provider, datacenter, and/or enterprise network infrastructure
• Communication experience: demonstrated skills to effectively engage with hardware vendors, service providers, and colocation facility vendors globally and effectively translate performance issues into technical engineering requirements
• Experience in providing technical guidance to external vendors
• Intermediate subject matter expertise in Network Services, including topology, traffic analysis, hardware platform, and architectures
• 4+ years of experience with telecommunication networks in the terrestrial optical transport networks including DWDM, network infrastructures, optical testing, optical measurement principles, structured cabling and experience with photonic layer
• Subject matter expertise with physical infrastructure design: rack elevations, cable types, connector types, optic types, patch panels, and facility infrastructure
• Familiarity with Enterprise and Service Provider network hardware platforms and architectures, including Cisco and Juniper routers/switches and Nexus data center switching hardware platforms
• Experience with physical data center design: rack elevations, cabling, fiber optics, power/cooling, and facility infrastructure
• Experience with network hardware platforms and architectures including Ciena, Infinera, Nokia, Arista, Cisco WDM Equipment
• Experience moving technical or engineering programs and products from inception to delivery and experience articulating the impact using metrics
• Direct leadership experience with global Network Operations Center (NOC) environments and managing Service Level Agreements and continuous improvement against metrics at scale
• Experience with purchasing, negotiating and end-to-end supplier management, such as managing global RFPs and contract negotiations
• Advanced executive leadership communications experience
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Required skills

• Network Operations, Optical Transport Networks (DWDM), Fiber Optics, Structured Cabling, Optical Testing and Measurement, Data Center Physical Infrastructure Design, Cisco Networking, Juniper Networking, Nexus Data Center Switching, Ciena, Infinera, Nokia, and Arista Network Hardware, Supplier Management

Preferred skills

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Experience

• 4+ years