Senior Capacity Planning Manager

Are you a business-oriented individual, experienced with providing predictive analytics and consulting on capacity planning?

Would you enjoy an ability to make decisions that influence Akamai's strategic initiatives?

Join our Capacity Planning team!

Our Cloud Technology Group takes ownership for planning, building, maintaining and operating our global compute and storage platform. We design, develop and deploy critical technologies including the hardware, software and network infrastructure. This provides the technical underpinnings for all of Akamai's products.

Create long-term forecasts and consult on methodologies across various stakeholders!

In this role you will be leading capacity related activities for multiple workloads using Akamai's storage platform. Incorporating business intelligence and analyzing information gathered from various sources to create and maintain the forecast and capacity models.

As a Senior Capacity Planning Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining high-quality scalable time-series data source where all critical resource utilization metrics are aggregated and tracked.
• Analyzing historical and segmentation data to identify trends and insights to provide capacity plans for each workload
• Building views that provide insights into the usage, risk, and efficiency of resources for each business workload
• Designing, developing and maintaining scaled, automated systems, reports, dashboards, etc. that will support Akamai business needs
• Collaborating with internal teams to gain good understanding of workload nature and characterize for host deployment activities
• Participating in strategic & tactical planning discussions and cost optimization plans based on resource usage insights

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Have significant experience in a capacity planning function, within a cloud environment
• Show ability to have impact on business results through statistical analysis of supply and demand alignment
• Possess exceptional analytical and quantitative capabilities with an ability to provide data-backed analysis
• Have experience working with both relational and non-relational database systems, complex SQL statements and MS Excel modeling
• Demonstrate great communication skills including ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis to both technical and non-technical audience
• Have ability to engage, influence, and build trusted relationships with stakeholders across various levels or geographies

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!