# Sr. Manager, Cloud Capacity Management

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $174,600.00 to $235,000.00
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Cloud Capacity Planning team at Cisco ensures the company's cloud platforms have sufficient compute, storage, and network capacity for customers. You will build and maintain a rolling capacity forecast, compare demand against available supply, and collaborate with sales, engineering, and FinOps teams.

Key responsibilities:

- Develop and manage capacity forecasts by CSP, region, workload, and resource type

- Work with CSPs on reservations to ensure on-time delivery without wasted spend

- Mentor fellow capacity planners and introduce AI-enabled tools

- Measure success by forecast accuracy, on-time deliveries, and capacity gap management

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, engineering, supply chain, data analytics, or a related field; and 8+ years of related experience, or a master's degree and 6+ years of related experience

- Experience in cloud or infrastructure capacity planning with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud

- Experience building demand forecasts and scenario models

- Experience working with FinOps or finance teams on cloud cost management

Preferred qualifications:

- Hands-on experience using AI or machine learning tools

- Knowledge of geopolitical, regulatory, and data sovereignty factors affecting regional capacity

- Strong communication skills for explaining trade-offs to stakeholders

- Experience mentoring teammates and building processes

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance

- Flexible vacation time off program

- Opportunities for professional growth and development

## Skills

### Required
- cloud capacity planning
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- demand forecasting
- FinOps
- cloud cost management

### Nice to have
- AI
- machine learning
- communication
- mentoring

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