We are seeking an Engineering Director to join the operations team responsible for the mission critical IT hardware and tooling in our data centers. The successful candidate will assure we are delivering the right engineering solutions to our data center teams, with emphasis on crafting the right tools and landing the right production hardware meeting our needs in performance, quality, reliability, and serviceability. As part of the team operating the infrastructure within the data centers, the Engineering Director will require close working relationships with the teams responsible for design and release of production systems, collaborating on verification test, and working through production quality and performance issues, sharing high quality feedback reflecting business needs. The candidate will be responsible to specify the right tools supporting operations, from ticketing & workflow systems to application of machine learning to failure diagnosis, translating fleetwide data into actionable insights and proactive indicators of fleet health. The SiteOps Director will champion engineering initiatives that bring together field and engineering teams to deliver proactive, industry leading operations at hyperscale. Success will be gauged by meaningful improvements to the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of our Capacity & Production Operations teams. The SiteOps Director will drive innovative initiatives; scale teams and operations; develop talent; and deliver the right tools, processes, and standards to enable Facebook’s growth. This position is full-time, based in Fremont, California.
Director, Data Center Engineering Responsibilities
Build and guide a lean, world-class sustaining engineering team, delivering insights, practices, and tools to proactively manage a hyper-scale fleet of servers distributed across the globe
Build deep relationships with key Infra hardware and software engineering teams, technical specialists, program managers, and data center operations teams, and leverage these relationships to drive development of efficient and effective workflows and tools, and the right high quality, high performance infrastructure
Lead and influence multi-disciplinary teams of deep technical experts and engineers in disciplines core to server operations, including information security, new product introduction, long-term data storage technologies, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), machine learning, and software automation
Set and champion engineering strategy and technical direction, and establish engineering best practices across the Site Operations team. Plan and deliver engineering strategy efficiently and effectively, and ensure it is well communicated, fully bought into, and fully understood by key stakeholders and partners.
Ensure that engineered solutions take a best practice approach to user privacy, security, and data protection, both logically and physically, in our data centers, including the integration of legal and compliance-related requirements into our tooling and automation
Assure tight feedback between operations and design, representing full-lifecycle operability, serviceability, and production performance and quality at design
Become an expert in Facebook's site operations infrastructure, tools, systems, and data
Team with groups across Infra to develop dashboards and reporting to build a deep understanding of a complex technical environment, to improve the state of the fleet
Formulate the right metrics, definitions of success, and high impact engineering initiatives to drive improved quality, effectiveness, efficiency, cost, and timeliness
Align the global team behind key performance metrics, and be a key driver assuring rapid, coordinated, and effective responses to issues as they arise
Anticipate potential engineering and tooling risks and develop strategies to minimize or mitigate
Ability to travel 30-40% required
Minimum Qualifications
BS in Engineering.
10+ years of engineering experience, in a mature operations environment
Experience influence effectively and working on cross functional teams to advance the needs of the company, and adapting the team to meet these needs
Experience working in a fast paced, hands-on environment
Preferred Qualifications
M.S. In Engineering
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