Capacity Planning Program Manager

at  Cloudflare

ABOUT US

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

EXAMPLES OF DESIRABLE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Excel
• PL/SQL server development experience
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala
• Degree in Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or closely related field
• 3+ years relevant work experience as a Capacity Planner, Supply Chain Analyst, Business Analyst, BI Engineer or Data Scientist
• Demonstrated ability and experience to influence, develop productive working relationships, and lead technical teams and key stakeholders from different business functionsA diverse technical acumen
• -actively contribute to technical discussions, proactively identify challenges and risks, working closely with engineers and product manager on addressing challenges, and form mitigation plans
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills. Effective problem-solving skills
• Exercise technical judgment to keep goals for programs, projects and products attainable within a given timeline

• Identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations for service owners to improve capacity utilization of applications
• Identify and institute new planning verticals
• Develop simulation models and tools which analyze multi level constraints (data center space and power, budget, lead time constraints)
• Collaborate with application owners and product managers to understand capacity requirements, software optimization initiatives, and generate short/long term capacity demand forecasts
• Data Modeling/Business Intelligence
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing capacity planning infrastructure for greater scalability
• Design, develop and scale user friendly systems, reports and dashboards which support capacity planning
• Create monitoring and reporting tools for capacity related analysis
• Build ROI models which help leadership teams prioritize and manage risk across new product initiatives, reliability/efficiency projects and existing applications/features