Cloud Capacity Strategy Lead — AI Forecasting

Cisco Systems; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 175,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cloud Capacity Planning team at Cisco Systems is responsible for ensuring the company’s cloud platforms have the right compute, storage, and network capacity across regions and CSPs. You’ll translate demand into supply with CSP reservations, drive AI-enabled forecasting, and tie outcomes to measurable capacity gains worldwide.

In this senior role, you’ll mentor analysts across the US and Canada, collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, and FinOps, and strive for sharper forecasts and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, engineering, supply chain, data analytics or related field and 8+ years of experience, or a master's degree with 6+ years.
• Experience in cloud or infrastructure capacity planning with AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, including quotas and reservations
• Experience building demand forecasts and scenario models
• Experience building reports and dashboards
• Experience working with FinOps or finance teams on cloud cost management, reservation coverage or budgets

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a rolling capacity forecast by CSP, region, workload and resource type to help leaders make confident investment and growth decisions worldwide.
• Compare demand from sales pipeline, bookings and product roadmaps against available supply, then work with CSPs on reservations so customers get capacity on time without wasted spend.
• Collaborate with sales on realistic lead times, with engineering on protecting capacity during maintenance windows and with FinOps on reconciling reservations to keep costs healthy.
• Mentor fellow capacity planners and introduce AI-enabled tools to make planning faster and more accurate across every region.
• Measure your success by sharper forecasts, on-time deliveries and a clear owner and plan for every capacity gap.

Skills

Cloud capacity planning

Forecasting

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, engineering, supply chain, data analytics or related field

Master's degree +6 years experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

FinOps tools

Job description

The Cloud Capacity Planning team at Cisco Systems is responsible for ensuring the company’s cloud platforms have the right compute, storage, and network capacity across regions and CSPs. You’ll translate demand into supply with CSP reservations, drive AI-enabled forecasting, and tie outcomes to measurable capacity gains worldwide.

In this senior role, you’ll mentor analysts across the US and Canada, collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, and FinOps, and strive for sharper forecasts and