Strategic Network & Capacity Planner

Transaction Network Services (TNS); Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Life insurance

Paid holidays and vacations

401(k) plan with company match

Job summary

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is seeking an experienced Network and Capacity Planner to support growth, capacity management, colocation coordination, and infrastructure readiness for Waypoint Trading Solutions. You will partner with Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Finance, and Legal to drive deployment milestones and contract execution.

The role involves building reports, forecasting capacity, tracking inventory, and coordinating multi-team efforts across data center spaces, power,

Qualifications

• Experience in IT data center design/operations and capacity management.
• Strong communication, documentation, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of telecommunications network design principles, IP network design concepts, traffic engineering, and equipment capacity planning.
• Experience coordinating multiple workstreams, vendors, internal teams, and business expansion priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Assist senior planning resources in developing and maintaining Capacity Management Plans for data center power and space, and network switch port availability for Waypoint products and services.
• Build, maintain, and enhance reporting used to support capacity management, infrastructure forecasting, utilization tracking, and leadership review.
• Analyze demand trends, sales pipelines, and infrastructure utilization to forecast capacity exhaustion and recommend proactive augmentations.
• Manage inventory tracking for data center hardware, with a focus on network switching infrastructure availability and lead times.
• Monitor warehouse min/max levels for BAU parts and collaborate on reporting improvements.
• Work with the Facilities team to ensure contract inventories, renewal schedules, and vendor records are documented and managed appropriately.
• Support analysis and activities regarding service contract renewals and EOL milestones for network switching infrastructure.
• Support Waypoint growth initiatives and network expansion activities, including vendor deliverables and overall physical site readiness.
• Partner with Legal, Procurement, Finance, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Sales throughout procurement and infrastructure deployment activities.
• Track infrastructure expansion projects, rack acquisition, network switch allocations, deployment milestones, migration dependencies, and escalation items.
• Manage Waypoint-related Nlyte and Salesforce work order activities, ensuring all changes are accurately documented, completed, and escalated as needed.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, reporting, documentation quality, automation, and reduce operational handoffs.
• Provide regular updates, capacity summaries, risks, issues, and recommendations to leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Capacity planning

Project coordination

Effective communication

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Nlyte

Salesforce

DCIM tools

Job description

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is seeking an experienced Network and Capacity Planner to support growth, capacity management, colocation coordination, and infrastructure readiness for Waypoint Trading Solutions. You will partner with Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Finance, and Legal to drive deployment milestones and contract execution.

The role involves building reports, forecasting capacity, tracking inventory, and coordinating multi-team efforts across data center spaces, power,