Network Operations Engineer

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, managed service providers, and third-party vendor partners to investigate complex technical and process issues during major incidents/site events (SEVs) on edge, caching, and network infrastructure.
• Work closely with team members to understand the root cause of incidents and contribute to their resolution.
• Identify security & business continuity issues affecting the network and infrastructure at Meta and work with the team to implement effective changes.
• Provide feedback on existing tools, processes, and policies to help scale with the rapid expansion of the Meta platform and customer base.
• Drive operations by identifying improvement opportunities across policies, processes, and procedures to improve efficiency and quality of activities.
• Ensure standards compliance across the network and optimize service delivery.
• Collaborate with internal customers to address their needs and issues, and influence future iterations of data center and network designs for seamless integration of new infrastructure and scalability.
• Work with cross-functional teams within and outside the organization to deliver business outcomes predictability across global sites.
• Analyze operational datasets to detect and prioritize problems and create aligned team projects, programs, and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with partner teams to design and implement aligned processes that identify and manage data and asset protection risks, as well as operations continuity issues across the network.
• Collaborate with the team to analyze operational events to identify new automation opportunities and achieve our goals of all Tier-1 faults in the network being fully remediated by software.
• Help others understand our requirements and drive their roadmaps, and in some cases, directly implement lightweight solutions in code.
• Drive quality into the metrics we report, measuring and analyzing escalation issues, fault/event trends, infrastructure capacity, and vendor performance failures. Formulate appropriate metrics and definitions of success to drive quality, efficiency, cost, and timeliness, evolving these over time to match changes to the infrastructure and business requirements.
• Communicate clearly and effectively around personal and team goals, progress, outcomes, and lessons learned across assigned scope.

Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
• 4+ years of experience operating, deploying, and designing large-scale network, optical, and/or physical layer infrastructure.
• 4+ years of network operations experience while supporting large-scale service provider, data center, and/or enterprise network infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with various optical/network communication equipment such as network/fiber/copper test gear, and other WDM equipment, as well as associated tools and test equipment.
• Communication skills with a demonstrated ability to engage effectively with hardware vendors, service providers, and colocation facility vendors globally, and translate performance issues into actionable technical requirements.
• Experience analyzing tactical situations, troubleshooting, root causing systems and tools, and problem solving via tasks or larger cross functional projects.
• Ability to provide technical guidance to external vendors to direct repair actions.
• Working knowledge of Network Services, including topology, traffic analysis, hardware platform, and architectures.
• Familiarity with Enterprise and Service Provider network hardware platforms and architectures, including Cisco and Juniper routers/switches and Nexus data center switching hardware platforms.
• Experience with network hardware platforms and architectures including Ciena, Infinera, Nokia, Arista, Cisco WDM Equipment.
• Experience with physical data center design: rack elevations, cabling, fiber optics, power/cooling, and facility infrastructure.
• Experience in partnering with infrastructure engineers within varied infrastructure environments, such as data center facilities or leased facilities.
• Direct experience within global Network Operations Center (NOC) environments and managing SLAs (service level agreements) and continuous improvement against metrics at scale.
• Project management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements).
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies.