Network & Capacity Strategist for Data Center Growth

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Paid 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 colocation coordination across Waypoint Trading Solutions infrastructure. You will ensure space, power, rack, PDU, and switch port availability aligns with business demand.

You will partner with Engineering, Operations, Sales, Product, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and vendors to drive infrastructure readiness, contract execution, and project tracking for deployment readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience in the IT industry supporting data center design, data center operations, capacity management, or in a delivery project management role.
• Strong communication, documentation, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of telecommunications network design principles, IP network design concepts, traffic engineering, and equipment capacity planning.
• Experience with data center design, power delivery systems, 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.
• Build, maintain, and enhance reporting used to support 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, with a focus on network switching infrastructure availability and lead times.
• Monitor warehouse min/max levels for BAU parts and collaborate on reporting improvements.
• Work with the Facilities team 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.

Skills

Communication

Documentation

Organization

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Reporting

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Nlyte

Salesforce

DCIM tools

Inventory management systems

Project management tools

Job description

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is seeking a Network and Capacity Planner to support growth, capacity management, and colocation coordination across Waypoint Trading Solutions infrastructure. You will ensure space, power, rack, PDU, and switch port availability aligns with business demand.

You will partner with Engineering, Operations, Sales, Product, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and vendors to drive infrastructure readiness, contract execution, and project tracking for deployment readiness.