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Data Center Production Operations Engineer Responsibilities

• Work within Meta's ticketing system in support of the health of Meta's server fleet.


• Serve as first point of contact for break fix technicians.


• Assist with projects (new capacity as well as retrofits) and repairs throughout the data center.


• Understand and initial analysis to debug hardware and Linux OS related issues.


• Identify and help to create documentation for the global data center knowledge base.


• Assist with process improvements and best practices in data center operations.


• Document design specifications, installation instructions, and other system-related information.


• Identify system data, hardware, or software components required to meet user needs.


• Utilize knowledge of server hardware and the desire to participate in projects at a large-scale data center.


• Resolve and diagnose server issues at scale, escalate issues and work with remote engineering teams.


• Work within the rack lifecycle processes with a focus on helping build out and enable cloud scale compute and storage environments.


• 15% domestic travel required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field (foreign equivalent accepted) and completion of one graduate-level course, one research project, or one internship involving the following skills:


• 1. Knowledge of Linux and server hardware repairs


• 2. Modifying and developing in Python, SQL, and shell scripting, AND


• 3. Working conceptual knowledge of technologies such as HTTP, DNS, RAID, and DHCP.


• Alternatively, employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field (foreign equivalent accepted) and 36 months of experience involving the following skills:


• Knowledge of Linux and server hardware repairs, modifying and developing in Python, SQL, and shell scripting, and working conceptual knowledge of technologies such as HTTP, DNS, RAID, and DHCP.

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