Data Center Reliability & Automation Engineer

Meta; New Albany (OH); On-site; USD 111,010 - 158,995; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Data Center Production Operations Engineer to support the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our global data center infrastructure. You will manage day-to-day operational health of server fleets, work across hardware lifecycle management and process improvement, and ensure production environments meet the demands of billions of users.

You will participate in 24/7 on-call rotation and collaborate with hardware, network, and capacity planning teams to optimize

Qualifications

• 6+ years of data center operations experience.
• Hands-on server hardware troubleshooting and failure analysis.
• Experience with monitoring/observability platforms to track fleet health and incidents.
• Experience creating or improving operational runbooks and automation scripts.
• Ability to travel up to 15%.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain large-scale server fleets across data center environments, including hardware triage, failure analysis, and coordinating repair and replacement workflows.
• Monitor production systems health using observability tooling and telemetry data to proactively identify and resolve infrastructure anomalies before they impact service availability
• Develop and refine operational runbooks, escalation procedures, and incident response playbooks specific to data center server environments
• Collaborate with hardware engineering, network operations, and capacity planning teams to support server deployment, decommissioning, and lifecycle transitions
• Analyze failure trends and operational data to identify systemic issues in server hardware or firmware, and drive root cause analysis and corrective action
• Contribute to automation initiatives that reduce manual toil in server provisioning, health checks, and fleet management workflows, including leveraging AI-integrated tooling
• Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate and implement process improvements that increase operational efficiency and reduce mean time to resolution for production incidents
• Communicate infrastructure status, incident timelines, and risk assessments to engineering and operations stakeholders through clear written and verbal updates
• Support capacity readiness activities by validating server acceptance criteria and coordinating with data center technicians during hardware bring-up and commissioning
• Identify gaps in monitoring coverage or operational tooling and propose solutions that improve fleet visibility and production reliability
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time

Skills

Data center operations

Server hardware troubleshooting

Observability platforms

Automation scripting

Incident response

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Python

Bash

IPMI

Redfish

BIOS configuration

Job description

Meta is seeking a Data Center Production Operations Engineer to support the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our global data center infrastructure. You will manage day-to-day operational health of server fleets, work across hardware lifecycle management and process improvement, and ensure production environments meet the demands of billions of users.

You will participate in 24/7 on-call rotation and collaborate with hardware, network, and capacity planning teams to optimize