Data Center Capacity & Network Planner

Transaction Network Services (TNS); New Jersey; On-site; USD 101,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Life insurance

Paid holidays and vacations

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Transaction Network Services (TNS) seeks a Network and Capacity Planner to support Waypoint Trading Solutions’ infrastructure growth and capacity management. The role coordinates with Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Legal, and vendors to ensure space, power, racks, and colocation resources meet business demand.

You will lead reporting, forecasting, and project tracking for data center capacity, manage inventory and renewals, and drive deployment readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience in IT data center design, operations, capacity management, or in a delivery project management role.
• 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 with data center design, power delivery systems, and capacity management.

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

Data center operations

Stakeholder management

Network design principles

Traffic engineering

DCIM tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Nlyte

Salesforce

Inventory management systems

Job description

Transaction Network Services (TNS) seeks a Network and Capacity Planner to support Waypoint Trading Solutions’ infrastructure growth and capacity management. The role coordinates with Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Legal, and vendors to ensure space, power, racks, and colocation resources meet business demand.

You will lead reporting, forecasting, and project tracking for data center capacity, manage inventory and renewals, and drive deployment readiness.