Job Details: Data Center Product Hardware Platform Engineer


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Data Center Product Hardware Platform Engineer
Location: Clonee

Facebook&#**Apply on the website**;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&#**Apply on the website**;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&#**Apply on the
website**;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&#**Apply on the website**;re just getting started.

Facebook is seeking a forward thinking, experienced IT professional
with technical leadership experience and skills in Server Hardware,
Non-Standard high performance compute, Linux, Storage/Tape, and/or
Networking, ideally in a data center environment. Our data centers,
and the tens of thousands of servers installed in them, are the
foundation upon which our rapidly scaling infrastructure efficiently
operates and on which our innovative services are delivered. Facebook
is at the leading edge of the global data center industry, both in
design and operations. Our Product Hardware Platform Engineers are
responsible for the performance of the compute and storage platforms
in our data centers. They are responsible for the health of the server
fleet, from production verification test through end-of-life.
Responsibilities include identifying systemic hardware, firmware, and
tooling issues; engaging in hands-on problem solving; and
collaborating effectively with engineering, tooling, and onsite
provisioning and break-fix teams to improve performance of the fleet.
This position requires a high degree of ownership and understanding of
our platforms, leveraging technical expertise and using data to
identify trends across the fleet and proactively identify and mitigate
performance and reliability issues. Excellent organizational skills
and the ability to collaborate with multiple teams in a large scale,
distributed environment are required to be effective in this role.

* Serve as subject matter expert for compute and storage platforms
in Facebook?s production data centers, anticipating and diagnosing
issues for the data center operations teams, and escalating as
appropriate to hardware design and NPI teams
* Provide end-to-end lifecycle ownership (verification test through
end of life decommissioning) of hardware platforms and new
technologies in the data centers
* Drive complex technical investigations globally and spanning
multiple disciplines such as Hardware, Software/Firmware, Networking
and Power & Cooling
* Analyze health of the global fleet of servers to proactively
identify systemic issues, and take appropriate action to quickly
mitigate impact
* Work closely with HW Engineering, Release-to-Production, and
Operations Integration teams to take new server and storage platforms
into mass production in the data centers
* Identify risks early in new hardware programs and contribute the
test methods needed to characterize the product and assure
end-customer needs are met
* Act as product owner for specific server and/or storage platforms.
Ensure that outcomes of root cause analysis are addressed, in
collaboration with hardware and software engineering teams
* Issue timely alerts and fixes to operations teams, and assure a
robust feedback pipeline to engineering teams
* Build strong relationships and collaboration with engineering and
cross functional teams across the company. Actively solicit feedback
from teams, and use that feedback to improve operational effectiveness
as infrastructure scales
* Provide serviceability feedback on production hardware resulting
in more efficient repair activities
* Ability to travel up to **Apply on the website**% required

* BS or BA in electrical, mechanical, or hardware engineering
* 6+ years of experience with Linux and IT hardware systems in an
internet operations environment
* Experience triaging and debugging hardware platforms
* Experience working with Linux or Unix Operating systems
* Experience training and mentoring technicians and/or engineers
* Demonstrated technical skills and experience creating
documentation for users of all levels
* Communication experience and interpersonal skills, with the
experience communicating and partnering effectively within all levels
of the organization
* Experience in integration testing and operation of compute and
storage platforms, bringing operational perspective to each stage of
H/W development life cycle through end of life in production
* Experience with building relationships with customers and vendors
* Expert at leveraging large volumes of data to improve decision
making processes in the hardware functional domain (understanding the
metrics and statistics)

* Bash, PHP, Python, or Perl scripting experience
* Experience in data center system and process automation
* Experience in large scale data center hardware deployments and
building scaling infrastructure

Location: Clonee

Facebook&#**Apply on the website**;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&#**Apply on the website**;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&#**Apply on the
website**;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&#**Apply on the website**;re just getting started.

Facebook is seeking a forward thinking, experienced IT professional
with technical leadership experience and skills in Server Hardware,
Non-Standard high performance compute, Linux, Storage/Tape, and/or
Networking, ideally in a data center environment. Our data centers,
and the tens of thousands of servers installed in them, are the
foundation upon which our rapidly scaling infrastructure efficiently
operates and on which our innovative services are delivered. Facebook
is at the leading edge of the global data center industry, both in
design and operations. Our Product Hardware Platform Engineers are
responsible for the performance of the compute and storage platforms
in our data centers. They are responsible for the health of the server
fleet, from production verification test through end-of-life.
Responsibilities include identifying systemic hardware, firmware, and
tooling issues; engaging in hands-on problem solving; and
collaborating effectively with engineering, tooling, and onsite
provisioning and break-fix teams to improve performance of the fleet.
This position requires a high degree of ownership and understanding of
our platforms, leveraging technical expertise and using data to
identify trends across the fleet and proactively identify and mitigate
performance and reliability issues. Excellent organizational skills
and the ability to collaborate with multiple teams in a large scale,
distributed environment are required to be effective in this role.

* Serve as subject matter expert for compute and storage platforms
in Facebook?s production data centers, anticipating and diagnosing
issues for the data center operations teams, and escalating as
appropriate to hardware design and NPI teams
* Provide end-to-end lifecycle ownership (verification test through
end of life decommissioning) of hardware platforms and new
technologies in the data centers
* Drive complex technical investigations globally and spanning
multiple disciplines such as Hardware, Software/Firmware, Networking
and Power & Cooling
* Analyze health of the global fleet of servers to proactively
identify systemic issues, and take appropriate action to quickly
mitigate impact
* Work closely with HW Engineering, Release-to-Production, and
Operations Integration teams to take new server and storage platforms
into mass production in the data centers
* Identify risks early in new hardware programs and contribute the
test methods needed to characterize the product and assure
end-customer needs are met
* Act as product owner for specific server and/or storage platforms.
Ensure that outcomes of root cause analysis are addressed, in
collaboration with hardware and software engineering teams
* Issue timely alerts and fixes to operations teams, and assure a
robust feedback pipeline to engineering teams
* Build strong relationships and collaboration with engineering and
cross functional teams across the company. Actively solicit feedback
from teams, and use that feedback to improve operational effectiveness
as infrastructure scales
* Provide serviceability feedback on production hardware resulting
in more efficient repair activities
* Ability to travel up to **Apply on the website**% required

* BS or BA in electrical, mechanical, or hardware engineering
* 6+ years of experience with Linux and IT hardware systems in an
internet operations environment
* Experience triaging and debugging hardware platforms
* Experience working with Linux or Unix Operating systems
* Experience training and mentoring technicians and/or engineers
* Demonstrated technical skills and experience creating
documentation for users of all levels
* Communication experience and interpersonal skills, with the
experience communicating and partnering effectively within all levels
of the organization
* Experience in integration testing and operation of compute and
storage platforms, bringing operational perspective to each stage of
H/W development life cycle through end of life in production
* Experience with building relationships with customers and vendors
* Expert at leveraging large volumes of data to improve decision
making processes in the hardware functional domain (understanding the
metrics and statistics)

* Bash, PHP, Python, or Perl scripting experience
* Experience in data center system and process automation
* Experience in large scale data center hardware deployments and
building scaling infrastructure



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