Global CDN Capacity & Edge Infrastructure Manager

Apple Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager within IS&T's Infrastructure Services in Sunnyvale.

You will own capacity planning across edge and origin infrastructure, forecasting demand, and ensuring scale aligns with product roadmaps. You will bridge traffic trends with hardware procurement, partner with network and SRE teams, and drive cost-efficient utilization while maintaining reliability.

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

Skills

Capacity planning

Forecasting

Data analysis

Vendor coordination

Hardware procurement

SRE collaboration

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager within IS&T's Infrastructure Services in Sunnyvale.

You will own capacity planning across edge and origin infrastructure, forecasting demand, and ensuring scale aligns with product roadmaps. You will bridge traffic trends with hardware procurement, partner with network and SRE teams, and drive cost-efficient utilization while maintaining reliability.