Data Center Capacity Engineer

Responsibilities

• Overall accountability for capacity workflows (receiving, moves, decommissions)
• Facilitating collaboration among various cross-functional partners to meet capacity demands
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders and partners to implement strategies and drive initiatives that lead to meaningful improvements in support of data center operations
• Maintain consistent touchpoints with key XFN partners across data centers
• Analyze business capacity demands and translate that data into local plans to enable rapid delivery of capacity to the site
• Plan, lead and collaborate with cross-functional data center teams to deliver complex data center infrastructure capacity projects in support of Meta’s growth
• Consider the interdependencies of production resiliency, power, cooling, network, server and application layers
• Build cross-functional relationships and have the ability to influence policies and procedures to improve regional/global data center operations
• Ensure operational consistency, to scale operations efficiently and effectively
• Perform root cause analysis of complex technical and engineering issues and drive resolution
• Create/improve global standards for processes, workflows, and automation roadmaps for software automation that facilitate deployment, maintaining, and decommissioning of server hardware at scale
• Work with Meta hardware and software engineering teams to help resolve complex technical issues that affect Meta's computing infrastructure
• Seek out and provide guidance on challenges others are having and actively fix them in a scalable way
• Display knowledge of infrastructure (including, but not limited to, cooling, power, networking) as it relates to the capacity role

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a combination of capacity planning, demand and supply management, production planning, operations planning, or infrastructure management
• BS, BA, or BEng in a relevant field, or equivalent experience or certification
• Experience in process ownership and development, and in systems development
• Comprehensive understanding of data center infrastructure systems and applications, as well as technical knowledge from related industries such as pharmaceuticals, nuclear, or large-scale manufacturing
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems and to think at scale

Qualifications

• SQL, Python, or other programming and automation experience
• Project management and delivery experience
• Certifications in Agile or PMP certification
• Experience in the application of data-driven continuous improvement through lean Six Sigma data and process analysis, visualization, and data modeling