CDN Capacity & Edge Infrastructure Lead

Apple Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 321,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock awards

Comprehensive medical and dental

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Edge Services, part of Apple’s IS&T, is seeking a CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager to own capacity planning, forecasting, and infrastructure health across Apple’s global content delivery network. You’ll bridge traffic trends with hardware procurement and operational reliability to ensure edge capacity scales ahead of demand.

The role sits at the intersection of network engineering, data analysis, and vendor coordination, requiring rigorous modeling, cost discipline, and proactive

Qualifications

• 6+ years in capacity planning, infrastructure engineering, or network operations.
• Experience forecasting capacity using traffic data.
• Understanding of CDN architecture fundamentals (edge/PoP design, caching, traffic routing)
• Experience with monitoring/analytics tooling to track utilization and performance metrics.
• Cross-functional coordination with network engineering, SRE, and procurement teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end capacity planning for CDN edge and origin infrastructure, including short-term (weeks), medium-term (quarters), and long-term (annual) forecasting models
• Analyze traffic patterns, bandwidth utilization, and growth trends across PoPs/edge nodes to identify capacity risks
• Partner with network engineering and SRE teams to plan and execute hardware deployments, decommissions, and capacity rebalancing across regions
• Build and maintain dashboards/reporting that track utilization, headroom, and forecast accuracy against actuals
• Lead capacity readiness reviews ahead of major traffic events (product launches, live streams, seasonal peaks)
• Coordinate with vendors and colocation partners on lead times, hardware procurement, and site buildouts
• Develop and refine capacity models that account for traffic imbalance, failover scenarios, and regional redundancy requirements
• Drive root-cause analysis on capacity-related incidents and feed learnings back into forecasting models
• Collaborate with finance/procurement on budget planning tied to infrastructure growth
• Establish and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and escalation paths for capacity-related operational issues
• Present capacity status, risks, and recommendations to engineering leadership on a recurring cadence

Skills

Capacity planning

Infrastructure engineering

Network operations

Monitoring analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE or related field

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

ClickHouse

SQL

Job description

Apple Edge Services, part of Apple’s IS&T, is seeking a CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager to own capacity planning, forecasting, and infrastructure health across Apple’s global content delivery network. You’ll bridge traffic trends with hardware procurement and operational reliability to ensure edge capacity scales ahead of demand.

The role sits at the intersection of network engineering, data analysis, and vendor coordination, requiring rigorous modeling, cost discipline, and proactive