Data Center Production Operations Engineer

Meta Careers; Clonee; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in Clonee, Ireland, is hiring a Data Center Production Operations Engineer to support the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our global data center infrastructure. You will monitor server fleets, diagnose hardware and system failures, and drive corrective actions with engineering teams.

You will deploy, decommission, and lifecycle manage servers, develop runbooks, and contribute to capacity and reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on experience with large-scale server hardware and data center operations.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response capabilities essential.
• Experience creating and maintaining operational playbooks and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain the operational health of large-scale server fleets and production infrastructure across data center environments.
• Diagnose and resolve hardware and systems failures, coordinating with engineering teams to drive root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Execute and refine server deployment, decommissioning, and lifecycle management processes to support capacity and reliability goals.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, escalation procedures, and documentation to standardize production operations workflows.
• Collaborate with hardware engineering and capacity planning teams to identify systemic issues and propose infrastructure improvements.
• Track and analyze operational metrics and failure trends to surface insights that improve fleet reliability and reduce mean time to resolution.
• Support the qualification and rollout of new server hardware generations by validating operational readiness and identifying deployment risks

Skills

Server hardware

Troubleshooting

Incident response

Runbooks

Documentation

Job description

# Data Center Production Operations EngineerClonee, Ireland Data Center Operations+ 1 moreApply nowMeta is seeking a Data Center Production Operations Engineer to support the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our global data center infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operational health of server fleets and production systems, working at the intersection of hardware lifecycle management, systems troubleshooting, and operational process improvement. You will partner closely with hardware engineering, capacity planning, and infrastructure teams to ensure Meta's data centers operate at peak performance, directly enabling the products and services that connect billions of people worldwide.---## Data Center Production Operations Engineer Responsibilities* Monitor and maintain the operational health of large-scale server fleets and production infrastructure across data center environments* Diagnose and resolve hardware and systems failures, coordinating with engineering teams to drive root cause analysis and implement corrective actions* Execute and refine server deployment, decommissioning, and lifecycle management processes to support capacity and reliability goals* Develop and maintain operational runbooks, escalation procedures, and documentation to standardize production operations workflows* Collaborate with hardware engineering and capacity planning teams to identify systemic issues and propose infrastructure improvements* Track and analyze operational metrics and failure trends to surface insights that improve fleet reliability and reduce mean time to resolution* Support the qualification and rollout of new server hardware generations by validating operational readiness and identifying deployment risks