Data Center Reliability & Automation Engineer

Meta; Newark, New Albany (CA, OH); On-site; USD 111,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Data Center Production Operations Engineer to ensure reliability and scalability of our global data center infrastructure. You will manage large-scale server fleets, monitor fleet health, and drive automation and incident response improvements.

The role requires on-call availability and up to 15% travel. You will collaborate with hardware, network, and capacity teams to deploy, decommission, and lifecycle manage servers, while refining runbooks and tooling to reduce mean time

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data center operations, site operations, or production infrastructure engineering supporting large-scale server environments.
• 6+ years of experience with server hardware components including CPUs, memory, storage, and network interface cards, including hands-on troubleshooting and failure diagnosis.
• Experience using systems monitoring and observability platforms to track fleet health, identify anomalies, and drive incident resolution in production data center environments.
• Experience developing or improving operational processes, runbooks, or automation scripts to support server fleet management at scale.
• Experience collaborating with hardware engineering, network, and capacity teams to coordinate infrastructure deployments and lifecycle activities.

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

Monitoring/observability

Automation scripting

Tools

IPMI/Redfish

Python/Bash scripting

Observability tooling

Job description

Meta is seeking a Data Center Production Operations Engineer to ensure reliability and scalability of our global data center infrastructure. You will manage large-scale server fleets, monitor fleet health, and drive automation and incident response improvements.

The role requires on-call availability and up to 15% travel. You will collaborate with hardware, network, and capacity teams to deploy, decommission, and lifecycle manage servers, while refining runbooks and tooling to reduce mean time