Network & Capacity Planner for Data Center Growth

Transaction Network Services (TNS); Georgia; On-site; USD 101,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Life insurance

Paid holidays and vacations

401(k) plan with company match

Job summary

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is seeking a Network and Capacity Planner to support growth, capacity management, and infrastructure readiness across Waypoint Trading Solutions. You will coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Sales, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and vendors to ensure space, power, rack, and colocation resources meet demand.

You will build reporting, analyze demand trends, and manage data center hardware inventory, contract renewals, and deployment milestones, while driving

Qualifications

• Experience in IT data center design/ops and capacity management.
• Strong communication, documentation, organization and stakeholder management.
• Knowledge of telecom network design principles and IP traffic planning.
• Experience with data center design, power delivery, and capacity management.

Responsibilities

• Assist senior planning resources in developing and maintaining Capacity Management Plans for data center power and space, and network switch port availability for Waypoint products and services.
• Build, maintain, and enhance reporting for capacity management, infrastructure forecasting, utilization tracking, and leadership review.
• Analyze demand trends, sales pipelines, and infrastructure utilization to forecast capacity exhaustion and recommend proactive augmentations.
• Manage inventory tracking for data center hardware, focusing on network switching infrastructure availability and lead times.
• Monitor warehouse min/max levels for BAU parts and collaborate on reporting improvements.
• Work with Facilities to ensure contract inventories, renewal schedules, and vendor records are documented and managed appropriately.
• Support analysis and activities regarding service contract renewals and EOL milestones for network switching infrastructure.
• Track infrastructure expansion projects, rack acquisition, network switch allocations, deployment milestones, migration dependencies, and escalation items.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, reporting, documentation quality, automation, and reduce operational handoffs.
• Provide regular updates, capacity summaries, risks, issues, and recommendations to leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

IT capacity planning

Communication

Telecom network design

Data center design

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Nlyte

Salesforce

DCIM tooling

Job description

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is seeking a Network and Capacity Planner to support growth, capacity management, and infrastructure readiness across Waypoint Trading Solutions. You will coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Sales, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and vendors to ensure space, power, rack, and colocation resources meet demand.

You will build reporting, analyze demand trends, and manage data center hardware inventory, contract renewals, and deployment milestones, while driving