<p>Meta is looking for a forward thinking people leader with technical skills in hyperscale data center structured cabling, fiber connectivity solutions, IP networking, and operations/maintenance of network physical layer infrastructure to join the Edge and Network Services (ENS) Operations organization. In this role, you will lead initiatives and a team to improve efficiency and reliability via process engineering, driving system enhancements/automation in one of the most dynamic, fast-paced networks in the world. Candidates will also have experience scoping, developing and implementing strategies and plans in partnership with internal business teams, external vendors, and network design/engineering, and other cross-functional teams for integrating new technologies to better support existing technologies across the operational fleet. An objective for this role is to understand technical drivers for the business, organize strategies to ensure the operational supportability to meet those business needs, and to represent ENS across stakeholder groups to ensure those critical projects are achieved. The team improves operational efficiency and reliability of one of the most advanced and rapidly evolving networks in the world. The right candidate will possess experience in a fast moving organization and enjoy digging into operational pain points in order to implement the process enhancements and automation solutions to solve them. The ideal candidate loves identifying root causes in complex systems and quickly learning new domain expertise and technologies.10+ years of people management experience with experience managing managers and organizations Partnership: Experience successfully collaborating across their own team and with cross-functional partners at all levels to include organizational leaders Design Leadership: Experience understanding and influencing architectures for system dependencies and translating these into deployable and supportable solution requirements Process Engineering Leadership: Experience in organizational and digital transformation initiatives at both the strategic and tactical levels Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience 10+ years of work experience operating, deploying, and designing large-scale network, optical, and/or physical layer infrastructure 10+ years of network operations experience while supporting large-scale service provider, datacenter, and/or enterprise network infrastructure Communication experience: demonstrated skills to effectively engage with hardware vendors, service providers, and colocation facility vendors globally and effectively translate performance issues into technical engineering requirements Experience in providing technical guidance to external vendors Intermediate subject matter expert in Network Services, including topology, traffic analysis, hardware platform, and architectures 10+ years of experience with telecommunication networks in the terrestrial optical transport networks including DWDM, network infrastructures, optical testing, optical measurement principles, structured cabling and experience with photonic layer Subject matter expert with physical infrastructure design: rack elevations, cable types, connector types, optic types, patch panels, and facility infrastructure 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 physical data center design: rack elevations, cabling, fiber optics, power/cooling, and facility infrastructure Experience with network hardware platforms and architectures including Ciena, Infinera, Nokia, Arista, Cisco WDM Equipment Experience moving technical or engineering programs and products from inception to delivery and effectively communicating the impact using metrics Direct leadership experience with global Network Operations Center (NOC) environments and managing Service Level Agreements and continuous improvement against metrics at scale Experience with purchasing, negotiating and end-to-end supplier management, such as managing global RFPs (Requests for Proposals) and contract negotiations Advanced executive leadership communications experience</p>