Data Center Capacity Planner

1000 Micron Technology, Inc.; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Micron Technology, Inc. is seeking a Capacity Planning & Forecasting professional to manage global data center capacity across on-premises and cloud environments.

You will partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, SMAI, and Corporate IT to translate demand into actionable infrastructure plans and optimize utilization. The role emphasizes AI-enabled tools, predictive modeling, and lifecycle governance to improve forecasting accuracy, investment decisions, and readiness for AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, Engineering, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, data center operations, capacity planning or lifecycle management.
• Experience with enterprise infra including compute, storage, networking, cloud, and data centers.
• Strong analytical, forecasting, reporting, automation, and problem-solving skills, with experience presenting to executives.
• Experience employing AI-powered tools and data analytics across technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a global infrastructure capacity view across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Develop rolling 3-, 6-, 12-, and 24-month capacity forecasts.
• Use AI-assisted forecasting, predictive analytics, and digital modeling to predict future demand.
• Collaborate with procurement, finance, and platform teams to translate forecasts into plans.

Skills

Analytical skills

Forecasting

Data analytics

Automation

Operational planning

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor degree in IT/CS/Engineering/Business

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

ServiceNow

Job description

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

In this role, the main focus will be on capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management across Micron's global data center and hybrid cloud infrastructure environments. You will partner closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, SMAI, and Corporate IT teams to translate business demand into actionable infrastructure plans while driving capacity optimization, refresh planning, and governance processes. This role will employ AI-enabled tools, advanced analytics, automation, predictive modeling, and digital infrastructure planning capabilities to improve forecasting accuracy, investment decisions, operational efficiency, and infrastructure readiness. You will help ensure compute, storage, network, power, cooling, and facility resources are available to support business growth, operational resilience, AI workloads, and technology modernization across Micron's global infrastructure portfolio!

Responsibilities:

Capacity Planning & Operations:

• Maintain a comprehensive view of global infrastructure capacity across on-premises and cloud environments, including compute, storage, network, power, cooling, and rack space.
• Track available, allocated, landed, and stranded capacity by region, platform, business unit, and service tier.
• Monitor infrastructure utilization and demand trends to identify capacity risks, utilization opportunities, and gaps against forecasted demand.
• Partner with infrastructure operations, cloud engineering, SRE, and service owners to ensure capacity supports business and operational requirements.
• Drive reallocation and reclamation of underutilized infrastructure resources to improve efficiency and enhance investment value.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools and automation to improve capacity data collection, reporting, forecasting accuracy, and operational efficiency.

Forecasting & Optimization:

• Develop rolling 3-, 6-, 12-, and 24-month capacity forecasts using business demand signals, utilization trends, technology roadmaps, manufacturing requirements, and infrastructure lifecycle plans.
• Use AI-assisted forecasting, predictive analytics, and digital modeling capabilities to identify trends, predict future infrastructure demand, and improve decisions related to prioritising resources.
• Evaluate future capacity requirements and recommend growth, refresh, consolidation, and retirement strategies.
• Perform scenario modeling and digital infrastructure planning to assess the impact of demand growth, technology transitions, supply constraints, cloud adoption, resiliency requirements, business continuity events, and evolving AI workload demand.
• Find opportunities to improve infrastructure utilization through rightsizing, capacity reclamation, workload placement optimization, automation, and cloud consumption management.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled planning capabilities to improve decision-making, scenario analysis, and infrastructure investment planning.
• Partner with procurement, finance, and platform teams to translate forecasts into purchasing plans, budget requirements, and deployment schedules.

Governance & Lifecycle Management:

• Establish and manage capacity planning processes, standards, and governance practices across hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Define policies for capacity buffers, refresh timing, utilization thresholds, allocation methodologies, and lifecycle management.
• Lead recurring capacity review sessions with business and technology team members to communicate risks, trade-offs, recommendations, and investment needs.
• Ensure capacity plans align with resiliency, security, compliance, and operational readiness requirements.
• Maintain accurate forecasting, allocation, refresh, and procurement records to support planning, audit, and business decision-making needs.
• Drive adoption of data-driven planning methodologies, automation, and continuous improvement practices to enhance infrastructure decision-making.

Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Develop and maintain executive-level dashboards, metrics, and reporting to support capacity and investment decisions.
• Provide data-driven recommendations to technology and business leaders regarding infrastructure growth, lifecycle risks, utilization trends, optimization opportunities, and AI infrastructure readiness.
• Collaborate across TE&I, Manufacturing, SMAI, TPG/EDA, Finance, Procurement, and Corporate IT to ensure alignment between demand forecasts and infrastructure readiness.
• Present capacity forecasts, investment recommendations, risk assessments, and future planning insights to technical and business partners.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, data center operations, capacity planning, or technology lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure environments, including compute, storage, networking, cloud, and data center technologies.
• Strong analytical, forecasting, reporting, automation, operational planning, and problem-solving skills, with experience presenting recommendations to executive team members.
• Demonstrable ability to employ AI-powered tools and data analytics to improve business outcomes while collaborating effectively across technical and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting large-scale global data center, cloud, and enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Strong knowledge of capacity planning, forecasting, predictive analytics, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Experience demonstrating AI-enabled analytics, intelligent automation, digital twins, and infrastructure planning tools.
• Expertise in FinOps, resource optimization, utilization management, and cloud capacity planning.
• Familiarity with ITIL, SRE, modern service management practices, reporting platforms (Power BI, Tableau, ServiceNow), and infrastructure requirements for AI, HPC, and advanced analytics workloads.

Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future. We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget.

Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave.

Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays.

Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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