Data Center Fleet Ops Leader, Infra & Automation

Meta; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 163,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a strategic Fleet Operations Manager to lead a geographically dispersed data center team responsible for production server hardware and infrastructure across a large-scale fleet. The role emphasizes prioritizing work by impact in a 24/7 environment, driving improvements through analytics, and serving as incident manager during major events.

The ideal candidate blends IT leadership with hands-on experience in server hardware, Linux, automation, and project management, ensuring

Qualifications

• BS, BA, or BEng in a technical field.
• Ability to travel up to 30% is required.
• Experience participating in or leading technical projects related to areas such as process improvement, technology, and/or automation, including bringing in additional expertise as needed
• 5+ years of experience managing teams of technical resources, including people and performance management responsibilities
• Understanding of data center infrastructure and/or operations, including power, cooling, and/or network systems
• structured cabling
• and management of projects, incidents, and vendors
• Experience using data and metrics to drive decision-making
• Ability to influence effectively, working on cross-functional teams to advance the needs of the company and adapting teams to meet these needs
• 10+ years of engineering or operations experience, preferably in a mature engineering or operations environment, working with cross-functional teams
• Ability to communicate effectively, in a clear and concise manner, appropriately tailoring messages to the audience

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a geographically dispersed, high-performing data center operations team, developing both the technical capabilities and leadership qualities of engineers
• Establish and manage a Data Center Operations Team accountable for the maintenance and operation of server hardware and supporting infrastructure at scale
• Become a technical expert in Meta's infrastructure, including platforms, tools, systems, architecture, workflows, and performance
• Provide strategic direction, guidance, and support for site and fleet-level operations
• Analyze and drive continuous improvement in the engineering and operational performance of our data centers
• Employ data analytics to identify inefficiencies, opportunities, exceptions, and correlations in a complex, highly interconnected, technical environment. Enable rapid and effective problem solving, along with proactive identification and mitigation of risks and issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional partner teams to ensure fleet health and maintain targeted capacity levels, resulting in optimized operations, minimized downtime, and seamless scalability
• Evolve and optimize processes in a globally consistent way to allow Meta to scale and grow effectively
• Support and mentor engineers in their day-to-day work, as well as in finding opportunities to develop and grow based on their areas of strength and interest
• Foster an environment of ownership, innovation, collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and safety
• Conduct performance management for a technical engineering team, providing clear expectations and goals
• Assume the role of incident manager during large-scale, site-wide, and region-wide production-impacting events, as the primary point of contact for your site. This requires working cross-functionally to scope problems, mitigate risks, affect fixes, and communicate the nature, status, and resolution plan for incidents
• Support and contribute thought leadership to the development and implementation of business practices, processes and automated tooling
• Develop deep knowledge and ownership of a hyper-scale computing fleet through the use of data analysis to identify trends and systemic issues and opportunities
• reporting out globally and sharing with peers as appropriate

Skills

Leadership

Server Hardware

Project Management

Quality Management

Data Analytics

Networks

OS repair

Linux

Automation

Education

BS/BA in technical field

Tools

Structured cabling

Job description

Meta is seeking a strategic Fleet Operations Manager to lead a geographically dispersed data center team responsible for production server hardware and infrastructure across a large-scale fleet. The role emphasizes prioritizing work by impact in a 24/7 environment, driving improvements through analytics, and serving as incident manager during major events.

The ideal candidate blends IT leadership with hands-on experience in server hardware, Linux, automation, and project management, ensuring