Global Data Center Capacity & Automation Lead

Meta; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 160,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Data Center Capacity Manager to lead rack capacity planning and delivery across our global data centers. You will guide engineers to improve efficiency, reliability, and risk management through processes, systems, and data while supporting Meta’s compute and AI infrastructure.

You will oversee the capacity function across multiple sites, drive strategic initiatives, and lead a high-performing team focused on ownership and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of direct experience managing engineers and organizations.
• 7+ years of work experience with designing and deploying large-scale data center connectivity infrastructure.
• Thorough knowledge of structured cabling and infrastructure, including design and installation best practices.
• Working knowledge of fault tolerant critical infrastructure used for supporting network and compute hardware in a high availability environment.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through partnership and driving large-scale data center or similar infrastructure design initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight of the capacity function across multiple sites in a geographical area.
• Distribute the capacity workload based on projections, OKRs, and KPIs across skill-sets, people resources, and company priorities.
• Work with FieldOps leaders and engineers to ensure on-time delivery with partners of rack SLAs, ensuring throughput objectives are met.
• Manage stakeholder communications and represent the team in XFN leadership meetings.
• Create, maintain and enforce Standard Operating Procedures, runbooks, provisioning workflows, and acceptance criteria ensuring all processes adhere to Meta-wide best practices in design, security/compliance, and reliability.
• Attract top talent and fill gaps in the existing team quickly to accommodate growth.
• Structure teams and working groups to optimize for delivery of business outcomes, set clear expectations, establish operational guardrails, and build a team emphasizing ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Lead highly cross-functional infrastructure projects and programs in a matrix organization covering data center, production network, infrastructure, logistics, supply chain, compliance, legal, and software system engineering.
• Drive improvements in technical references/standards, design processes, and training documentation.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Capacity planning

Data center infrastructure

Budgeting & resource planning

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE or related field

Tools

Bash

Python

SQL

Automation tooling

Job description

Meta is seeking a Data Center Capacity Manager to lead rack capacity planning and delivery across our global data centers. You will guide engineers to improve efficiency, reliability, and risk management through processes, systems, and data while supporting Meta’s compute and AI infrastructure.

You will oversee the capacity function across multiple sites, drive strategic initiatives, and lead a high-performing team focused on ownership and continuous improvement.