Manager Data Center Operations

Every day tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore create play learn and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox were building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together from anywhere in the world and on any device. Were on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

A career at Roblox means youll be working to shape the future of human interaction solving unique technical challenges at scale and helping to create safer more civil shared experiences for everyone.

As a Manager Data Center Operations youll help us scale our Core Data Center and hardware infrastructure at a time of incredible growth for our business. At Roblox youll have boundless opportunities to shape the future of the Imagination Platform and demonstrate your passion for delivering thoughtful solutions in front of a global audience. If you know what it takes to build and operate hardware infrastructure that can sustain millions of concurrent players year-round and you take play as seriously as we do youll fit right into our highly experienced and ever-expanding engineering team. You will report to the Senior Manager of Data Center Operations. This will be a position based in Goodyear AZ.

You will:

• Develop and maintain the Core Data Center and hardware infrastructure to meet the large-scale and real-time requirements of our Imagination Platform to ensure our community has an awesome experience anywhere in the world. This includes all aspects of the server network infrastructure power and environmental monitoring.
• Lead a growing team of data center engineers focusing on rack deployments hardware troubleshooting and break-fix and decommissioning.
• Identify and solve critical problems and prevent them from re-occurring via root cause analysis and giving recommendations to improve automation. Guide train and educate staff on best practices related to break/fix tasks related to the server hardware and network infrastructure.
• Create influence and improve the development platform infrastructure metrics standards (Runbooks SOPs MOPs) and methods to ensure the goal of scalability and high availability can be achieved.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for our critical infrastructure.
• Build and implement Core sites around the world including low voltage cabling creating BOMs vendor management.

You have:

• At minimum 10 years of experience working in large-scale Data Center Infrastructure environments and 5 years experience leading a team of 3 or more data center engineers. While supporting the operations team you are also expected to also perform as an individual contributor.
• Extensive experience installing monitoring and maintaining server and network equipment. This includes brand new server and network provisioning.
• In-depth knowledge of data center environments servers and network equipment.
• Proven experience executing on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• You have installed various equipment that commonly resides in the data center environment and are able to lift 75 pounds occasionally.

You are:

• Someone who is ready for action wielding a wealth of server and network hardware troubleshooting support across multiple commercial-off-the-shelf hardware brands.
• Excited about getting in front of complex problems and can effectively organize your work to overcome emergent high-impact issues.
• Someone who asks the right questions to solve issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories. You are able to formulate and identify problems generate and evaluate a variety of solutions (some of which are novel) and implement the best one(s).