Senior Capacity Planner

Digital Ocean
Seattle
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 106,000 - 132,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Cross-functional communication","Stakeholder management","Program building","Documentation","Data-driven decision-making"]

Own capacity planning for DigitalOcean’s internal physical infrastructure, partnering with teams that deploy bare metal servers. Build programs and playbooks to forecast requirements, coordinate budget requests and procurement, and plan server augments. Track rack, power, and hardware capacity across data centers and use observability data to validate assumptions and surface bottlenecks early. Provide dashboards and reports so stakeholders have clear visibility into capacity status and timelines.

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Digital Ocean
Digital Ocean
1 week ago

Senior Capacity Planner

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Job Summary

Own capacity planning for DigitalOcean’s internal physical infrastructure, partnering with teams that deploy bare metal servers. Build programs and playbooks to forecast requirements, coordinate budget requests and procurement, and plan server augments. Track rack, power, and hardware capacity across data centers and use observability data to validate assumptions and surface bottlenecks early. Provide dashboards and reports so stakeholders have clear visibility into capacity status and timelines.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and maintain a program for managing internal-use physical infrastructure from intake through deployment.
  • •Partner with internal teams to understand capacity tracking needs and forecast future requirements.
  • •Design and document playbooks that enable Cloud Operations to provision and maintain infrastructure independently.
  • •Coordinate budget requests and end-to-end procurement for new hardware supporting internal customers.
  • •Track rack, power, and hardware capacity across data centers and use observability data to validate capacity assumptions and report status.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 106,000 - 132,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Learning BudgetEquity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in capacity planning, infrastructure operations, or program/project management in a technical environment.
  • •Experience coordinating budget requests and procurement processes for hardware.
  • •Experience working with bare metal or physical server infrastructure.
  • •Solid understanding of containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes) and how they consume underlying physical capacity.
  • •Comfort with SQL and data visualization tools (e.g., Looker, Grafana) for tracking and reporting.
Experience:Infrastructure operationsProgram managementTechnical environmentCloud computing
Skills:Cross-functional communicationStakeholder managementProgram buildingDocumentationData-driven decision-making
Tech Stack:Bare metalDockerKubernetesSQLLookerGrafanaObservabilityMetricsLogsDashboards

Company Brief

Digital Ocean
Provides cloud infrastructure and developer-focused cloud services including scalable droplets, managed databases, Kubernetes, object storage, and networking to simplify deploying and managing applications for developers and small-to-medium businesses.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2011
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