Strategic Network & Capacity Planner

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

Job summary

Waypoint Trading Solutions, a TNS business, seeks a Network and Capacity Planner to support growth, capacity management, and infrastructure readiness across our data center environment. You will coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and vendors to ensure space, power, rack, and equipment availability aligns with demand.

The role requires IT/data center experience, strong communication, and the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced trading

Qualifications

• Experience in IT/data center capacity management or delivery project management.
• 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.
• Ability to analyze utilization data, business demand trends, and infrastructure constraints.
• Ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, vendors, internal teams, and business expansion priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain 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.
• Partner with Legal, Procurement, Finance, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Sales throughout procurement and infrastructure deployment activities.

Skills

Capacity management

Reporting

Stakeholder management

Data center design

Network design principles

Project coordination

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Nlyte

Salesforce

Job description

Waypoint Trading Solutions, a TNS business, seeks a Network and Capacity Planner to support growth, capacity management, and infrastructure readiness across our data center environment. You will coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and vendors to ensure space, power, rack, and equipment availability aligns with demand.

The role requires IT/data center experience, strong communication, and the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced trading