Network Engineer, ENS Strategic Lead

Meta is looking for a forward-thinking and strategic leader focused on operational execution with cross-functional partners to join the Edge and Network Services (ENS) organization. In this role, you will lead initiatives to improve efficiency, reliability, and risk management via process, systems, and data in one of the largest scale networks in the world. The person in this role will work within a fast-moving design, deployment, and operations organization and enjoy digging into complex technical and cross organizational challenges in order to implement process alignment and technical system solutions at a global scale.

Own and shape the cross team alignment to deliver Meta's next-generation AI and rest of world infrastructure. This role has direct influence over how we design, deploy, and operate the environments that connect our global infrastructure. This role has broad scope with measurable outcomes:
You lead the teams and processes that enable subsea operations and critical reliability improvements—work that is immediately felt by partner teams. Blend of strategic and hands on technical leadership:
You will drive long‑term alignment, process and tooling direction while also being close enough to the ground to unblock restoration issues, optimize workflows, and ensure operational performance expectations. Cross‑Functional reach across Product Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Investment teams:
This role interfaces with a broad cross‑functional group of stakeholders, providing the opportunity to influence standards, champion automation, and extend best practices across the subsea ecosystem. Opportunity to build and scale a team:
You will develop talent, define operational guardrails, and shape a team centered around ownership, precision, and continuous improvement.

• Execution Enablement:
  Help develop and maintain execution plans and resource modelling across indirect teams. Help structure teams and working groups to optimise for delivery of business outcomes. Set clear expectations, establish operational guardrails, and build a team emphasising ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Project Leadership:
  Lead highly cross‑functional infrastructure projects and programs in a matrix organisation covering a range of areas (data centre, production network, infrastructure, logistics, supply chain, compliance, legal, and software system engineering)
• Roadmap Ownership and Strategy:
  Own the planning and execution of an organisational-level roadmap and strategy to deliver business outcomes
• Mentorship:
  Coach and develop other engineers and people managers on the team
• Incident and Escalation Management:
  Investigate complex technical and cross-team issues during major incidents and escalations across the ENS organisation. Partner closely with cross‑functional teams, managed service providers, and third‑party vendors to drive resolution and prevent similar issues in the future
• Strategic Automation Leadership:
  Drive continuous improvement across the team to analyse operational activities, identify automation opportunities, and advance our goal of AI software enabled solutions. This includes shaping partner requirements and roadmaps, and at times directly implementing lightweight solutions in code
• Data Measurement:
  Drive alignment into the metrics we report across the organisation so operational teams can focus on the areas with the best return on investment, including analysis of escalations, fault/event trends, infrastructure capacity, and vendor performance
• Collaboration and Partnership:
  Drive alignment with internal partners (Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Traffic, Logistics, Programme Management) and vendors (field engineering, logistics, facilities, and hardware partners), proactively addressing their needs and issues across global sites
• Technical Leadership:
  Lead root‑cause analysis and corrective action to resolve operational issues across edge and backbone architectures and hardware platforms. Partner with highly cross‑functional teams to identify and solve problems at the scale of Meta's rapid growth
• Business Ownership:
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