Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta 4+ years of work experience operating, deploying, and designing large-scale network, optical, and/or physical layer infrastructure Hands-on experience with a variety of optical/network communication equipment including optical amplifiers, coherent transponders, network/fiber/copper test gear and other WDM equipment as well as associated tools and test equipment 4 + 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 expertise in Network Services, including topology, traffic analysis, hardware platform, and architectures 4+ 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 expertise 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 experience articulating 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 and contract negotiations Advanced executive leadership communications experience 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 technologiesMeta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. This often culminates in the creation and communication of aligned team projects, programs, and roadmaps Risk Management: Work with partner teams to design and implement aligned processes that identify and manage data and asset protection risks (i.e, security and privacy gaps, Business Continuity vulnerabilities), as well as operations continuity issues across the network Information and Data Assurance: Ensure relevant operational process, procedure, and policy documentation is effectively managed and the data required to support operations is complete and accurate in systems Automation: Be heavily involved in driving the team to analyze operational events in order to identify new automation opportunities and help us achieve our vision of all Tier-1 faults in the network being fully remediated by software.