Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is looking for a visionary Senior Principal Datacenter Capacity Planner to drive innovation in datacenter capacity planning. In this high-impact role, you'll work on a team guiding our datacenter and infrastructure space managing our supply and demand across our entire fleet of OCI regions. This role entails closely working with executive leadership, sales, finance and datacenter/AI engineering teams to support traditional and multi-billion dollar deal scoping. From hardware, networking, engineering and datacenter design, you will be required to scope large scale customer requirements for cloud demand and next generation AI clusters to support deals and datacenter expansion in the hundreds of Megawatts to Gigawatts. Your work will directly influence OCI’s long-term strategy and direction, and help shape the future of cloud infrastructure.
Internal Responsibilities
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be a well-organized datacenter design expert and metrics-driven, showing strong initiative and thriving in a fast paced and constantly changing environments. This role will support the Data Center Capacity Planning team in creating scalable and repeatable processes. Additional responsibilities include:
- Close alignment with sales, executive leadership and product teams to understand the demand pipeline and turn customer requirements into tangible datacenter and product needs.
- Aligning supply, delivery and hardware planning to meet the needs of the roadmap.
- Understanding of detailed datacenter site level designs to scope needs to customers into real deployable datacenter solutions.
- A strong understanding of GPU infrastructure for air and liquid cooled datacenters and the complexities of network architecture in the clustered GPU space.
- Working closely with datacenter sourcing teams to match customer demand to available datacenter capacity worldwide, within OCI's portfolio or availability on the open colo market.
- Defining priorities for OCI leadership for datacenters budgets and procurements, ensuring we are sourcing the right capacity at the right time.
- Establishing priorities, identifying and communicating risks and mitigation plans in collaboration with stakeholders; developing and maintaining program milestones and completion dates.
- Using operational metrics to drive process improvement and efficiencies with a focus on creating scalable processes.
- The successful candidate will have demonstrated success in creating and refining operational processes. The ability to direct multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment and a strong customer focus is required.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 6+ years of relevant experience
- Ability to multitask, manage multiple projects, and prioritize tasks
- Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results
- Highly skilled with SQL, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud capacity planning is a plus
- Ability to think both strategically and tactically
- Broad commercial awareness developed in a fast-moving environment
- Innovative and self-directed
- Ability to deliver initiatives from conception through completion
- Experience in process improvement
External Responsibilities
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be a well-organized datacenter design expert and metrics-driven, showing strong initiative and thriving in a fast paced and constantly changing environments. This role will support the Data Center Capacity Planning team in creating scalable and repeatable processes. Additional responsibilities include:
- Close alignment with sales, executive leadership and product teams to understand the demand pipeline and turn customer requirements into tangible datacenter and product needs.
- Aligning supply, delivery and hardware planning to meet the needs of the roadmap.
- Understanding of detailed datacenter site level designs to scope needs to customers into real deployable datacenter solutions.
- A strong understanding of GPU infrastructure for air and liquid cooled datacenters and the complexities of network architecture in the clustered GPU space.
- Working closely with datacenter sourcing teams to match customer demand to available datacenter capacity worldwide, within OCI's portfolio or availability on the open colo market.
- Defining priorities for OCI leadership for datacenters budgets and procurements, ensuring we are sourcing the right capacity at the right time.
- Establishing priorities, identifying and communicating risks and mitigation plans in collaboration with stakeholders; developing and maintaining program milestones and completion dates.
- Using operational metrics to drive process improvement and efficiencies with a focus on creating scalable processes.
- The successful candidate will have demonstrated success in creating and refining operational processes. The ability to direct multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment and a strong customer focus is required.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 6+ years of relevant experience
- Ability to multitask, manage multiple projects, and prioritize tasks
- Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results
- Highly skilled with SQL, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud capacity planning is a plus
- Ability to think both strategically and tactically
- Broad commercial awareness developed in a fast-moving environment
- Innovative and self-directed
- Ability to deliver initiatives from conception through completion
- Experience in process improvement
