Private Cloud Capacity Architect

GCS Recruitment Specialists; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment Specialists is seeking a Cloud Capacity Engineer to join a growing infrastructure team. You’ll focus on private cloud platforms, capacity planning, forecasting, data analysis, and automation to ensure resources meet business demand.

Responsibilities include building and automating capacity planning tools, developing forecasting models, analyzing compute/storage performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize budgets and capacity.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in infrastructure analytics, capacity planning or forecasting.
• Experience with cloud or private cloud infrastructure.
• Strong data analysis, modeling and forecasting skills.
• Ability to automate tools or processes.

Responsibilities

• Build and automate tools for capacity planning, forecasting, and sizing.
• Develop forecasting models to predict long-term growth of computing resources.
• Analyze utilization and performance of compute and storage environments.
• Support capacity planning for private cloud environments, including VMs and containers.
• Help determine data center power, rack, and cooling requirements.
• Validate procurement requirements using models and designs.
• Partner with compute, storage, and network teams on BOMs and designs.
• Support scaling, growth, and capacity augmentation decisions.
• Identify underutilized resources and opportunities for efficiency.
• Partner with finance on capacity planning and budgets.
• Evaluate capacity data and thresholds to identify risks.
• Develop and maintain capacity planning frameworks and inventory.
• Automate processes and improve infrastructure planning.

Skills

Infrastructure analytics

Capacity planning

Forecasting

Data analysis

Automation

Cloud/private cloud infrastructure

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

GCS Recruitment Specialists is seeking a Cloud Capacity Engineer to join a growing infrastructure team. You’ll focus on private cloud platforms, capacity planning, forecasting, data analysis, and automation to ensure resources meet business demand.

Responsibilities include building and automating capacity planning tools, developing forecasting models, analyzing compute/storage performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize budgets and capacity.