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CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager, Infrastructure Services

Apple· Infrastructure Services
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Sunnyvale, California, United States, Denver, Colorado, United States$206.2k - $356.4k + equity + bonusfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager responsible for capacity planning, forecasting, and infrastructure health across Apple’s global content delivery network. Focuses on bridging traffic trends, hardware procurement, and operational reliability to ensure CDN scales with demand while balancing cost and utilization.

Responsibilities

  • - Own end-to-end capacity planning for CDN edge and origin infrastructure, including short-term (weeks), medium-term (quarters), and long-term (annual) forecasting models
  • - Analyze traffic patterns, bandwidth utilization, and growth trends across PoPs/edge nodes to identify capacity risks
  • - Partner with network engineering and SRE teams to plan and execute hardware deployments, decommissions, and capacity rebalancing across regions
  • - Build and maintain dashboards/reporting that track utilization, headroom, and forecast accuracy against actuals
  • - Lead capacity readiness reviews ahead of major traffic events (product launches, live streams, seasonal peaks)
  • - Coordinate with vendors and colocation partners on lead times, hardware procurement, and site buildouts
  • - Develop and refine capacity models that account for traffic imbalance, failover scenarios, and regional redundancy requirements
  • - Drive root-cause analysis on capacity-related incidents and feed learnings back into forecasting models
  • - Collaborate with finance/procurement on budget planning tied to infrastructure growth
  • - Establish and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and escalation paths for capacity-related operational issues
  • - Present capacity status, risks, and recommendations to engineering leadership on a recurring cadence

Qualifications

  • - 6+ years of experience in capacity planning, infrastructure engineering, or network operations, ideally within CDN, cloud, or large-scale distributed systems environments
  • - Experience forecasting infrastructure capacity using traffic/usage data
  • - Understanding of CDN architecture fundamentals (edge/PoP design, caching, traffic routing, origin shielding)
  • - Experience working with monitoring and analytics tooling to track utilization and performance metrics
  • - Track record coordinating cross-functionally with network engineering, SRE, and vendor/procurement teams

Skills

Required:Capacity planning and forecastingTraffic analytics and data interpretationCDN architecture fundamentalsMonitoring and analytics toolingCross-functional coordinationData analysis (SQL/scripting)Hardware lifecycle managementCommunicationEducation
Nice to have:Time-series forecasting methodsLive-streaming/high-traffic event capacity planningObservability stacks (Splunk, ClickHouse, Grafana)Automation/orchestration tooling

Benefits

  • - Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • - Retirement benefits
  • - Discounted products and free services
  • - Reimbursement for certain educational expenses (tuition)
  • - Potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • - Relocation assistance possible
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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