Network Engineer, Operations & Support

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Denver, CO +1

Meta is seeking a Network Engineer, Operations & Support to manage and operate global production networks, including Edge, Backbone, and Labs, as well as their Content Delivery Network. The role involves incident response, escalation management, risk management, data assurance, automation, data measurement, and operational leadership. The candidate will drive improvements in network operations, collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors, and ensure compliance with reliability, security, and regulatory policies. While the core role is network engineering, the posting mentions leveraging AI tools for workflow optimization, ethical AI practices, and ongoing AI skill development, indicating an exploratory approach to AI integration within operations.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • Optical Network: knowledge of DWDM, ROADM, and RLS technologies in complex troubleshooting scenarios.
  • Ciena and Nokia (formerly Infinera) professional level or equivalent experience
  • Optical Technology Functional Experience: Minimum of 7 years working within global network or infrastructure operations, deployment, design/engineering and/or support teams
  • Vendor Partner Experience: Minimum of 7 years experience partnering to translate performance issues into improvement plans with enterprise and service provider vendors such as network hardware platforms(Cisco, Juniper, Ciena, Nokia, and Arista), ITAD vendors, logistics vendors, and colocation vendors
  • Business Metrics: Experience identifying key metrics/measures that will be used to evaluate success and validate the business impact of the program
  • Professional Services: Experience with purchasing, negotiating and end-to-end supplier management, such as managing global RFPs and contract negotiations
  • 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
  • Prioritization: Experience managing from the front to prioritize and drive the bigger mission forward by translating strategy into results
  • Repair Function: 5 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 facility infrastructure
  • Software Systems Practitioner: Knowledge and direct experience organizing and executing digital transformation initiatives at the practitioner level
  • Data Design: Basic knowledge applying data led analysis and leveraging technologies like machine learning and predictive modeling algorithms to solve complex business problems
  • Automation: Basic knowledge coding and automating in higher-level languages such as Python, Go, or JavaScript

Nice to have

  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum of 7 years working within global network or infrastructure operations, deployment, design/engineering and/or support teams
  • Minimum of 7 years experience partnering to translate performance issues into improvement plans with enterprise and service provider vendors such as network hardware platforms(Cisco, Juniper, Ciena, Nokia, and Arista), ITAD vendors, logistics vendors, and colocation vendors
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies