Data Center Capacity Lead
Facebook
Job Info
Facebook seeks a forward-thinking, engineer with leadership skills to join our Data Center Operations team reporting to the Capacity Manager. The person should enjoy working in a fast-paced, technical environment, where adaptability and flexibility is key to their success. Having experience in both technical and team leadership to deliver solutions to meet business needs are core competencies of this individual. The Capacity Team is responsible for how we plan, add, change and remove computing capacity to and from our data center fleet. This person will lead this team in local execution of the planning and execution elements of Capacity. Strong planning and project management experience is required as this team will manage and execute multiple, complex infrastructure projects within the data center in parallel, including capacity planning, installations, retrofits, hardware retirement, data eradication and service migrations. This person should also have leadership experience and strong communication skills.
- Accountable for leading a Data Center Capacity Team responsible for the IT capacity life cycle.
- Responsible for managing and delivery of capacity from the data center site and for ensuring operational delivery through partnership with both remote and local peer organizations to support ongoing business growth.
- Track issues, analyze data looking for trends and reporting out globally.
- Collaborating globally to develop and implement process improvements in data center operations.
- Coaching, mentoring and developing engineers and technicians such that they can run daily operations with minimal supervision.
- Create and drive a culture of safety, ownership, innovation, collaboration and accountability.
- Be forward thinking by understanding data center growth, identifying scaling issues before they occur and contributing to solutions.
- Support the team in the generation of specifications, and ideas for process and software automation improvements that facilitate the deployment and retirement of server hardware at scale.
- Experience with leading people, virtual teams or initiatives.
- Proven track record of setting goals, tracking progress and growing individuals.
- Experience with Linux and hardware systems support in an Internet operations environment.
- BS or BA in a technical field or commensurate experience.
- Experience operating in large technical environments.
- Solid understanding of core components of data center infrastructure.
- Substantial experience of building and maintaining cross-functional relationships with internal and external stakeholders and partners.
- Communication experience.
- Time, resource and project management experience.
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.
Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.
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