Global Edge CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Lead

Apple, Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Edge Services seeks a CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager to own capacity planning, forecasting, and infrastructure health across our global content delivery network. You'll bridge traffic trends, hardware procurement, and reliability to ensure edge capacity scales with demand.

This role sits at the intersection of network engineering, data analysis, and vendor coordination, requiring coordination across SRE and procurement.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in capacity planning, infrastructure engineering, or large-scale systems
• Experience forecasting capacity using traffic/usage data
• Understanding CDN architecture fundamentals (edge/PoP, caching, routing)
• Experience with monitoring/analytics tools to track utilization and performance metrics
• Cross-functional coordination with network engineering, SRE, and procurement teams

Responsibilities

• Own capacity planning, forecasting, and infrastructure health for global CDN.
• Forecast infrastructure capacity using traffic data and performance metrics.
• Collaborate with network engineering, SRE, and vendor/procurement teams to align capacity with demand.
• Develop capacity models and drive data-driven decisions to optimize CapEx and OpEx

Skills

Capacity forecasting

CDN/edge network

Infrastructure engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis (SQL)

Monitoring & analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

ClickHouse

Job description

Apple Edge Services seeks a CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager to own capacity planning, forecasting, and infrastructure health across our global content delivery network. You'll bridge traffic trends, hardware procurement, and reliability to ensure edge capacity scales with demand.

This role sits at the intersection of network engineering, data analysis, and vendor coordination, requiring coordination across SRE and procurement.