Senior Network Data Analyst – Network Capacity Planning

Merck; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceuticals company in the United States seeks an experienced professional for network capacity planning. The role requires strong skills in network infrastructure, analytical abilities, and collaboration with multiple teams. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience and familiarity with observability tools. Competitive compensation package offered with a focus on data-driven methodologies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of strong engineering or operations experience with network infrastructure.
• 2 years of specific experience in analytics or data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams for network requirements and capacity planning.
• Conduct analysis of network traffic and performance metrics.
• Mitigate risks related to capacity failures and network congestion.

Skills

Asset Management

Benefits Management

Product Management

Stakeholder Relationship Management

Strategic Planning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SevOne

Logic Monitor

Dynatrace

Python

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

Functional Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with demand management, network teams, and business units to understand current and future network requirements for capacity planning aligned with business goals.
• Conduct thorough analysis of network traffic, utilization rates, and performance metrics using predictive analysis to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement. Incorporate historical data and consider projected growth and scalability requirements.
• Collaborate with network engineers and implementation teams to plan hardware upgrades or enhancements to components of the network infrastructure.
• Provide regular reports to management and stakeholders, including KPIs, utilization metrics, and recommendations for optimizing network capacity.
• Identify and mitigate potential risks related to capacity failures, network congestion, and implement measures to minimize performance degradation and outages.
• Participate in cross-functional projects, collaborating with project teams to incorporate capacity planning requirements into project plans and timelines.

Professional Competencies:

• Possess superior interpersonal and communication skills, writing clear and concise proposals and presentations and interfacing with peer, management, stakeholders, and executives
• Ability to create clear and concise presentations for management, stakeholders and executives
• Ability to coordinate work tasks with others for timely completion and to avoid potential setbacks
• Ability to articulate complex and technical ideas accurately and clearly
• Ability to adapt current work processes to meet emerging needs and the ability to evaluate new ideas and proposed methods for practicality and ease of implementation

Qualification and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution or equivalent corporate working experience
• Familiarity with key components and best practices of Observability
• 8+ years of strong engineering or operations experience with the components of a large global network infrastructure such as Routers, switches, LAN/SD-WAN, Load Balancer, Wireless, Cloud Networking and etc
• 2 years of specific experience in analytics or able to clearly articulate data driven decision making process
• Familiarity with network monitoring, reporting, and observability tools such as: SevOne, Logic Monitor, Thousand Eyes, Moogsoft, Dynatrace, NetBrain and/or Elastic
• Administration experience with monitoring tools in creating policies, fine-tuning parameters and setting proper thresholds will be added advantage
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, and/or Python
• Experience in Ansible will be added advantage
• Experience in production of regular capacity report which will highlight actionable items based on the logic used. Development of key thresholds that will trigger improvement action plan would be added advantage
• Passionate about data and good data evangelist
• Experience with IT service management, ITIL certification preferred

Required Skills:

Asset Management, Benefits Management, Business, Management Process, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Social Collaboration, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs

Preferred Skills: