Network Engineer, Operations And Support

Edge Network Services Operations Engineer

The broader Edge Network Services (ENS) organization designs, builds, and supports a network of 2B+ active users of Facebook platform, 1B+ active users from Messenger, 1B+ users from Instagram and 1B+ users from Whatsapp. The ENS organization is organized into three global groups: "ENS Global Edge & Backbone Deploy," "ENS Foundation," and "ENS Global Operations." Each group has global scope across the lifecycle of support. The ENS Operations Team exists to operate the world's most available, efficient, and useful network. Whether it's our day to day management of hundreds of technicians working to repair and maintain Facebook's global infrastructure, targeted reliability initiatives, or evolving our digital systems to improve efficiency and manage business risk, our team is accountable. We provide the services to manage network operations across data center, backbone, subsea, and edge locations; and on-network and off-network CDN infrastructure.

This role will be part of a team of operations engineers that automate what makes sense to approach "Zero Touch Operations" and enable improved efficiency and productivity of our team members and vendor field workforces.

Required Skills

Network Engineer, Operations and Support Responsibilities:

• Incident Response: Drive work investigating complex technical and process issues on a global scale spanning multiple reliability, security, and continuity disciplines for infrastructure spanning thousands of locations during major incidents/site events on edge, caching, and network infrastructure.
• Escalation Management: Participate in the global team's Tier 3 and 4 on-call rotation with the goal of routing issues as needed and understanding how processes or tooling might be improved, skills can be developed, or automation can be implemented to prevent the need to escalate similar issues in the future.
• Operational Leadership: As an operations practitioner within the team you will be expected to drive improvement in everything we do. In this role you will indirectly manage the activities of a large contingent workforce responsible for delivering road mapped projects and executing on recurring activities. You will drive standards across the network and ensure that we are fully compliant to those standards and policies.
• Risk Management and Assurance: Work internally and with upstream partner teams to ensure design, build, and operations aligns to applicable reliability, security, privacy, regulatory policy, and business continuity drivers.
• Information and Data Assurance: Ensure relevant operational process, procedure, and policy documentation is effectively managed and the data required to support operations is complete and accurate in systems.
• Automation: Be heavily involved in driving the team to analyze operational events in order to identify new automation opportunities and help us achieve our goal of all faults in the network being fully remediated by software. This will include helping others understand our requirements and drive their roadmaps, but may include directly implementing light weight solutions in code.
• Data Measurement: As an operations practitioner supporting our network, you will be expected to drive quality into the metrics we report to assist us in focusing on the areas that give us the best return on investment. This could include measurement and analysis of our escalation issues, fault/event trends, infrastructure capacity, and vendor performance failures.
• Collaboration and Partnership: You will work closely on supporting our internal customers (Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Traffic, Logistics, Program Management) and vendors (IT asset disposal, and Hardware partners) and ensuring that their needs and issues are being addressed proactively across global sites.
• Roadmap Ownership and Strategy: Own the planning and execution of an organizational-level roadmap and strategy to deliver business outcomes.
• Technical Leadership: Provide root cause analysis and corrective action leadership to resolve all operational issues found across edge and backbone architectures and hardware platforms. You will be integral to identifying problems and implementing effective solutions across highly cross-functional infrastructure teams to include network engineering, logistics, supply chain, compliance, legal, software system engineering, and program management to scale with the rapid expansion of the Meta platform and customer base.
• Business Ownership: Represent the organization and manage interaction with third parties such as hardware, colocation, telecom carrier, and managed service partners.
• Project Leadership: Lead highly cross-functional infrastructure projects and programs in a matrix organization covering a range of areas (data center, production network, infrastructure, logistics, supply chain, compliance, legal, and software system engineering).
• Communication: Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders (Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Traffic, Logistics, Program Management, and hardware partners) to drive infrastructure operations development and management.
• Travel: International and domestic travel may be required up to 15 percent.

Minimum Qualifications

15. Operations Center Experience: Minimum of 7 years of direct leadership experience within a global Network Operations Center or IT Operations Center environment to manage Service Level Agreements and continuous improvement against metrics at scale.

16. Network Protocol: Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, IPv4/v6, Border Gateway Protocol, Intermediate System to Intermediate System, Open Shortest Path First, and/or Multi-protocol Label Switching in complex troubleshooting scenarios. Cisco and Juniper professional level or equivalent experience.

17. CDN and Edge: Advanced knowledge in CDN & Network Services, peering network strategies, including topology, traffic analysis, linux operating systems, hardware platform, and architectures in complex troubleshooting scenarios.

18. Repair Function: Minimum of 7 years of logical troubleshooting and physical repair with an understanding of physical infrastructure such as cable types, connector types, optic types, racks, patch panels, power/cooling, hardware components, and facilities infrastructure.

19. Automation: Basic knowledge coding and automating in higher-level languages such as Python, Go, or JavaScript.

20. Partnership: Experience successfully collaborating across a global team and with cross-functional partners (e.g. physical infrastructure & network design, engineering, strategy, security, policy, and legal) at all levels to include vendor service delivery managers, individual contributors, and people managers.

21. Prioritization: Experience managing from the front to prioritize and drive the bigger mission forward by translating strategy into results.

22. Network and Infrastructure Design: Minimum of 5 years of direct experience understanding and influencing network and infrastructure architectures to include constraint and dependency analysis and translating these into deployable and supportable solution requirements.

23. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

24. Facility Experience: Working within varied infrastructure environments, such as colocation facilities, cable landing stations, ILAs, owned data centers, or corporate campuses.

25. Software Systems Design: Experience organizing and executing digital transformation initiatives at both the oversight and practitioner levels.

26. Vendor Partner Experience: Partnering to translate performance issues into improvement plans with enterprise and service provider vendors such as network hardware platforms (Cisco, Juniper, Ciena, Infinera, Nokia, and Arista), ITAD vendors, logistics vendors, and colocation vendors.

27. Data Design: Basic knowledge applying data-driven analysis and leveraging technologies like machine learning and predictive modeling algorithms to solve complex business problems.

28. Information Technology Functional Experience: Working within global network or infrastructure operations, deployment, design/engineering and/or support teams.

29. Professional Services: Experience with purchasing, negotiating and end-to-end supplier management, such as managing global RFPs and contract negotiations.

30. Risk and Assurance Management: Experience in operational compliance, physical & logical infrastructure security, and/or business continuity disciplines.

31. Business Metrics: Experience identifying key metrics/measures that will be used to evaluate success and validate the business impact of the program.

Public Compensation: $133,000/year to $190,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

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