Global Infrastructure Capacity Planner & AI Automation

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking an Infrastructure Capacity & Expansion Planning professional to scale one of the world's largest networks. You will build forecasting models, dashboards, and planning systems to turn growth forecasts into scalable, cost-aware infrastructure expansions.

The role partners across planning, operations, procurement, logistics, engineering, and finance to ensure timely, globally coordinated deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience in capacity planning, infrastructure planning, production/operations planning, supply planning, or a related technical planning role.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience across complex operational systems and managing multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
• Hands-on experience building tools, automation, or internal products
• Fluency with AI tools in daily work, and a genuine appetite to use and create AI/agentic tooling to scale decision-making and eliminate manual toil.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate demand forecasts into infrastructure capacity plans that support business growth, aligning hardware deployments with performance, cost, and timeline targets.
• Build quarterly and weekly deployment plans that are realistic, balanced, and optimized for execution efficiency across operations, logistics, integration partners, and engineering teams.
• Track progress, resolve blockers, and maintain deployment momentum across the global fleet.
• Partner with Procurement and Data Center teams to ensure hardware and resources are available at the right time and locations, and manage inventory to balance availability, cost efficiency, and operational risk.
• Design, build, and ship internal products — forecasting models, dashboards, planning systems, and automated workflows — using AI/agentic tooling to structure messy data, run scenario analyses, and improve planning accuracy.
• Act as a central layer across planning, operations, engineering, logistics, procurement, and finance to keep Cloudflare's global deployments moving smoothly.

Skills

Capacity planning

Infrastructure planning

Production planning

Supply planning

Analytical skills

AI tools

Communication

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking an Infrastructure Capacity & Expansion Planning professional to scale one of the world's largest networks. You will build forecasting models, dashboards, and planning systems to turn growth forecasts into scalable, cost-aware infrastructure expansions.

The role partners across planning, operations, procurement, logistics, engineering, and finance to ensure timely, globally coordinated deployments.