Global Data Center Capacity Lead

Meta; Altoona (IA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Data Center Capacity Manager to lead the Capacity Team across global data centers. You will oversee rack receipts, moves, and decommissioning, partner with FieldOps, and ensure capacity aligns with business goals and SLAs.

You will manage a globally distributed team, build processes, and drive improvements in reliability, efficiency, and planning accuracy while coordinating with cross-functional partners across networks, logistics, and facilities.

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
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through partnership and driving large-scale data center or similar infrastructure design initiatives
• Track record of solving problems, setting strategic direction, executing tactically, and achieving measurable outcomes
• Demonstrated skills in written and verbal communication and ability to present concepts to stakeholders

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 cross-functional leadership meetings
• Create, maintain and enforce Standard Operating Procedures, runbooks, provisioning workflows, and acceptance criteria ensuring all processes adhere to Meta-wide best practices
• Own the planning and execution of the organizational-level roadmap and strategy to deliver business outcomes
• Provide root cause analysis and corrective action leadership to resolve issues across infrastructure, architectures and hardware platforms
• Lead highly cross-functional infrastructure projects and programs in a matrix organization
• Drive improvements in technical references/standards, design processes, and training documentation
• 20% domestic and international travel required to data centers managed

Skills

People management

Capacity planning

Data center operations

Stakeholder communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic orientation

Project management

Education

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

Tools

Bash

Python

Perl

Linux

Job description

Meta is seeking a Data Center Capacity Manager to lead the Capacity Team across global data centers. You will oversee rack receipts, moves, and decommissioning, partner with FieldOps, and ensure capacity aligns with business goals and SLAs.

You will manage a globally distributed team, build processes, and drive improvements in reliability, efficiency, and planning accuracy while coordinating with cross-functional partners across networks, logistics, and facilities.