Infrastructure Capacity & Efficiency Leader

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Clegg (NC); On-site; USD 160,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonuses

Benefits package

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Infrastructure Efficiency and Capacity Management across compute, GPUs/TPU accelerators, storage, and Cloud/Kubernetes platforms.

You will drive capital planning, demand forecasting, and lifecycle economics, aligning with platform owners to optimize investments and operational delivery. In this executive-facing role, you will build an analytics organization responsible for multi-million dollar infrastructure planning and TCO modeling,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field with 12+ years in infrastructure/enterprise capacity planning.
• Experience building and leading high-performing technical teams.
• Proven capacity planning, lifecycle management, and strong cost modeling experience.
• Experience developing quantitative capacity models, forecasts, and TCO/CapEx/OpEx business cases.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team specializing in capacity economics and platform efficiency.
• Establish an operating model for demand forecasting, unit economics, and supply allocation across Jira and ServiceNow.
• Direct evaluations of infra purchases, cloud expansions, and hardware refreshes using demand signals and TCO models.
• Govern cross-domain efficiency strategies including workload placement and cloud commitments.
• Partner with Finance to verify savings and avoid double counting.
• Communicate strategic recommendations to executives and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Capacity economics

Data analytics

Team leadership

Forecasting models

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12+ years

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow

Observability platforms

Kubernetes

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Infrastructure Efficiency and Capacity Management across compute, GPUs/TPU accelerators, storage, and Cloud/Kubernetes platforms.

You will drive capital planning, demand forecasting, and lifecycle economics, aligning with platform owners to optimize investments and operational delivery. In this executive-facing role, you will build an analytics organization responsible for multi-million dollar infrastructure planning and TCO modeling,