Global Network Capacity Planner (AI-Driven)

Cloudflare; United States; Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare in Lisbon is seeking an Infrastructure Capacity & Expansion Planner for a 6-month fixed-term contract to turn demand forecasts into scalable capacity. You will build internal tools, AI agents, and workflows to make readiness faster, cheaper, and more reliable at a global scale.

You will partner across planning, operations, procurement, logistics, engineering, and finance to keep deployments moving and to refine deployment plans with automation and data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Experience in capacity planning and related technical planning roles.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
• Hands-on experience building tools, automation, or internal products.
• Fluency with AI tools in daily work to scale decision-making and automate tasks.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate demand forecasts into infrastructure capacity plans that support growth, aligning hardware deployments with performance, cost, and timeline targets.
• Ensure infrastructure readiness across space, power, connectivity, and hardware availability, identifying capacity constraints early and coordinating mitigation.
• Build quarterly and weekly deployment plans 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 tools — forecasting models, dashboards, planning systems, and automated workflows — using AI/agentic tooling to structure data and improve planning accuracy.
• Act as a central layer across planning, operations, engineering, logistics, procurement, and finance to keep deployments moving smoothly.

Skills

Capacity planning

Analytical skills

Automation

AI tools

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

Cloudflare in Lisbon is seeking an Infrastructure Capacity & Expansion Planner for a 6-month fixed-term contract to turn demand forecasts into scalable capacity. You will build internal tools, AI agents, and workflows to make readiness faster, cheaper, and more reliable at a global scale.

You will partner across planning, operations, procurement, logistics, engineering, and finance to keep deployments moving and to refine deployment plans with automation and data-driven insights.