Global Data Center Capacity Lead

Meta; Rayville (LA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a forward-thinking People Manager to lead the Capacity Team responsible for rack capacity planning and delivery across global data centers. You will guide engineers to improve efficiency, reliability, and risk management through processes, systems, and data at a global scale.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on problem solving to ensure operational performance and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or 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 in high availability environments.
• 10+ years of direct experience in global network or infrastructure operations.
• 5+ years of experience with data centers, colocation facilities, or corporate campuses.

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 SOPs, runbooks, provisioning workflows, and acceptance criteria adhering to Meta-wide best practices.
• Lead organizational strategy and roadmaps to deliver business outcomes.
• Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions across infrastructure and hardware.
• Support automation and tooling initiatives to drive consistency and efficiency.
• Travel to data centers as required.

Skills

People management

Capacity planning

Data center operations

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional leadership

Operational guardrails

Process improvement

Root cause analysis

Project leadership

Automation advocacy

Education

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

Tools

Structured cabling expertise

Runbooks / SOPs

Data center tooling

Job description

Meta is seeking a forward-thinking People Manager to lead the Capacity Team responsible for rack capacity planning and delivery across global data centers. You will guide engineers to improve efficiency, reliability, and risk management through processes, systems, and data at a global scale.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on problem solving to ensure operational performance and scalable infrastructure.