Data Center Capacity Planner, Infrastructure Services
About the role
Data Center Capacity Planner role focused on centralized insight into data center physical infrastructure demand/supply, capacity readiness, and opportunities for future data center builds. Hyper-focused on Remote Data Center space, assisting in managing Apple leased data centers globally. Drives data analysis, metrics, and AI-driven analytics to advance capacity planning with governance and strategic interpretation.
Responsibilities
- Build analysis to provide holistic view of infrastructure demand, capacity outlook, and long term scaling considerations across physical infrastructure.
- Consolidate and interpret infrastructure capacity insights from engineering and platform teams to inform leadership on data center capacity readiness, growth projections, and potential constraints.
- Oversee planning and coordination for physical data center infrastructure, ensuring data center physical capacity readiness is aligned with infrastructure growth and platform needs.
- Identify and communicate infrastructure capacity risks and readiness gaps, enabling proactive mitigation and supporting reliable data center scaling.
- Establish and track performance metrics for capacity planning, promoting consistent planning practices and operational discipline across teams.
- Drive the adoption of automation and AI driven analytics in data center capacity planning, ensuring the organization leverages advanced insights while maintaining strategic oversight.
- Lead cross functional collaboration and team development, partnering with engineering, cloud, data center, finance, and supply chain teams to align infrastructure capacity planning with business priorities.
- Develop and lead data center strategy development initiatives to solidify Apple’s long term data center strategy.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in a related discipline or equivalent hands-on industry experience.
- Experience in data center colocation operations and management, infrastructure operations, cloud platforms, capacity planning, or engineering program leadership
- Experience coordinating cross team planning initiatives in complex infrastructure environments
- Ability to translate infrastructure data and analytics into strategic insights for senior leadership
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- 3-5+ years of experience in infrastructure operations, cloud platforms, capacity planning, or engineering program leadership
- Strong understanding of AI/ML, compute infrastructure, cloud platforms, and large scale distributed systems
- Understanding of hybrid infrastructure environments spanning data center and cloud platforms
- Experience with infrastructure planning, capacity governance, or infrastructure strategy functions
- Experience working with infrastructure telemetry, observability platforms, or capacity analytics tools
- Exposure to AI driven analytics or automated infrastructure planning systems
Skills
About Apple
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