Strategic Network & Capacity Planner

Transaction Network Services (TNS); Missouri; On-site; USD 94,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Life insurance

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Job summary

Transaction Network Services (TNS) seeks a Network and Capacity Planner to support infrastructure growth, capacity management, and vendor engagement across Waypoint Trading Solutions. This role coordinates with Engineering, Operations, Sales, Product, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and providers to ensure readiness and timely delivery.

You will manage capacity plans for data center power/space, track rack/PDUs, and monitor utilization to forecast shortages.

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 for Waypoint products and services.
• 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.
• Manage Waypoint-related Nlyte and Salesforce work order activities, ensuring all changes are accurately documented, completed, and escalated as needed.

Skills

Capacity planning

Data center operations

Stakeholder management

Network design principles

Reporting & analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Nlyte

Salesforce

DCIM tools

Inventory systems

Job description

Transaction Network Services (TNS) seeks a Network and Capacity Planner to support infrastructure growth, capacity management, and vendor engagement across Waypoint Trading Solutions. This role coordinates with Engineering, Operations, Sales, Product, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and providers to ensure readiness and timely delivery.

You will manage capacity plans for data center power/space, track rack/PDUs, and monitor utilization to forecast shortages.