CDN Capacity & Edge Infrastructure Lead

Apple, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 206,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and services

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Employee stock programs

Job summary

Apple, Inc. is seeking a CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager in Sunnyvale, CA to own capacity planning and infrastructure health for Apple’s global content delivery network.

The role bridges traffic trends, hardware procurement, and operational reliability to ensure edge capacity scales with demand while controlling costs. You'll collaborate with network engineering, SRE, and procurement, building predictive models, dashboards, and runbooks to guide budget and expansion decisions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in capacity planning, infrastructure engineering, or network operations.
• Experience forecasting infrastructure capacity using traffic/usage data.
• Understanding CDN architecture fundamentals (edge/PoP design, caching, traffic routing).
• Experience with monitoring and analytics tooling to track utilization and performance.
• Track record coordinating cross-functionally with network engineering, SRE, and vendor/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

data analysis

cross-functional collaboration

vendor coordination

forecasting

observability

automation/orchestration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE, or related field

Tools

Splunk

ClickHouse

Grafana

SQL

Job description

Apple, Inc. is seeking a CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager in Sunnyvale, CA to own capacity planning and infrastructure health for Apple’s global content delivery network.

The role bridges traffic trends, hardware procurement, and operational reliability to ensure edge capacity scales with demand while controlling costs. You'll collaborate with network engineering, SRE, and procurement, building predictive models, dashboards, and runbooks to guide budget and expansion decisions.