Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal
About the team
In the realm of Cloudflare's global network, capacity engineering takes center stage as the conductor of orchestrated growth and maintenance of Cloudflare's global infrastructure. This critical role involves forecasting diverse workloads, collaborating closely with engineering teams to optimize resources, and meticulously planning and deploying hardware, including compute, GPU, storage, and network components. The ultimate goal: ensuring Cloudflare's customers enjoy a consistently seamless online experience.
About the Role
The Infrastructure Capacity Engineer in Infrastructure Forecasting & Insights ensures that different internal teams are aligned with the organization's mission, strategy, and objectives. The Forecasting & Insights team analyzes data and its key drivers for both internal and external users. They take charge of the long-term forecasting of Infrastructure Capacity and develop advanced analytics and models to improve overall forecasts and operational analytics. This position will focus specifically on the forecasting to support the Compute, Storage and Artificial Intelligence needs for Cloudflare's suite of products. Additionally, they will have to be able to leverage their software engineering skills to connect to various upstream and downstream systems ensuring the forecasting plan matches the execution.
Core Responsibilities
Delivers multi-year forecasting plan end-to-end of our Edge Infrastructure capacity plan, including data center expansions, supply chain requirements, and data center management workflows aligned with various internal engineering teams.
- Collaborate with major partners including Engineering, Product, Data Center Selectin,Finance, Operations and Business Expansion teams to develop a strategic approach to create and capacity planning verticals
- Run an excellent organization and set-up mechanisms to lead teams across multiple locations globally.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- 5+ years of working experience in an Executive Data Management, Data Analytics or Cloud leadership position within a fast-paced and complex Organization.
- Experience in leading large infrastructure architecture programs, teams and cloud infrastructure architecture management.
- Experience building and leading data & analytics organization or practices as well as successful experience evangelizing/advocating for data analytics value across an Organization and to diverse audiences.
- Direct experience driving continuous improvements in process and operational efficiencies. Lead process-improvement efforts and manage the implementation of both business processes and technical solutions. Drive standards across cross functional teams.
- Proven and successful experience in a consulting role for senior Organization leadership and executives. As well as experience with hands-on leadership roles directly managing data and analytics teams, and driving change within a large, complex Organization's.
- An understanding of cloud architecture, underlying markets and key market drivers, and global megatrends and the value of data & analytics in acting on external disruption and market trends
