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Data Center Capacity Planner, Infrastructure Services

Apple· Software and Services
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA)$140.7k - $268.4kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Analytical data center specialist focusing on capacity planning for Apple’s remote data center footprint. Provides centralized insight into infrastructure demand, capacity readiness, and future data center builds; drives automation/AI-driven analytics and cross-functional alignment across engineering, cloud platforms, and operations.

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

Required:Data analysisCross-functional collaborationCapacity planning
Nice to have:Automation & AI analytics

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 and relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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