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Data Center Deployment Planner, Infrastructure Services

Apple· Corporate Functions
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA)$175.5k - $311.7kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Led by Apple IS&T, the Data Center Deployment Planner orchestrates end-to-end planning, allocation, and physical delivery of global server and compute/storage fleet, aligning business demand with hardware supply, facilities, and on-site operations across campuses and partner facilities to accelerate time-to-first-compute.

Responsibilities

  • With minimal oversight, drive deployment projects from initial planning stages all the way to completion by coordinating with SRE’s, PM’s, Site Services, Network and Logistics partners across the globe
  • Conceptualize, document, and translate high-level architecture into clear, actionable scopes of work, rack SKU’s, and deployment plans for onsite and remote partners to execute
  • Work closely with customers and partner teams to define a deployment strategy including hardware, network and security architecture and resiliency plans.
  • Remotely triage and isolate deployment blockers—coordinating between remote hands technicians, network engineers, and hardware engineering to unblock issues quickly.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in data center, networking, or infrastructure fields, including capacity planning or deployment management for hyperscale enterprise fleets
  • 3+ years of technical program or project management experience with a track record of delivering complex, large-scale data center programs
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Networking, or a related field; OR, equivalent job-related experience
  • Understanding of both physical and logical networking fundamentals. Experience with different types of switches, connectors, patch panels and cables. Knowledge of basic network architecture such as TCP/IP and L2/L3 topologies and functions such as DHCP, DNS and kickstart.
  • 5+ years of experience in a UNIX-based data center environment, with proficiency working in command line (CLI) shells on servers and network appliances, remote administration, and basic scripting with bash and/or perl.
  • Teammate with the ability to build peer, and external relationships
  • Able to provide detailed instructions for partners to follow and execute
  • 5+ years experience in project management of infrastructure services or related technical domains with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Experience with GPU/accelerator or high-density liquid-cooled infrastructure.
  • Effective collaborator with excellent communication skills; able to articulate complex ideas in a direct, concise way.
  • Develop and seek process improvements and strategies to further automate and streamline deployment processes.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage high-stakes customer expectations, negotiate deployment trade-offs during supply chain or site delays, and maintain customer confidence through proactive communication and milestone transparency.

Skills

Required:Project managementData center planningNetworking fundamentals

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation (as applicable)
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through discretionary employee stock programs
  • Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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