# Senior Manager, Infrastructure Efficiency & Capacity Management

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000.00 to $203,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cisco is seeking a Senior Manager to build and lead an enterprise Infrastructure Efficiency and Capacity Management practice across compute, accelerated compute (GPU/TPU), storage, and Cloud/PaaS/Kubernetes platforms.

You will establish and direct an engineering and analytics organization responsible for multi-million dollar infrastructure planning, workload placement, and lifecycle economics.

Key responsibilities:

- Build and lead a high-caliber team of engineers and analysts specializing in capacity economics, infrastructure data analytics, compute, and platform efficiency.

- Establish a repeatable operating model for demand forecasting, unit economics, supply allocation, opportunity tracking, and closed-loop outcome verification across Jira and ServiceNow.

- Direct independent, evidence-based evaluations of material infrastructure purchases, cloud expansions, and hardware refreshes using defined demand signals, utilization metrics, and TCO models.

- Govern cross-domain efficiency strategies including workload placement, right-sizing, hardware reuse, lifecycle refresh timing, and cloud financial commitments.

- Partner with Corporate Finance to enforce rigorous evidence standards, verifying bottom-line realized savings, cost avoidance, and capacity reclamation without double counting.

- Communicate strategic recommendations, technical trade-offs, and investment risks clearly to executive leadership and cross-functional engineering teams.

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related technical field, plus 12+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud/platform systems, technical operations, or enterprise capacity planning.

- 5+ years of direct experience building, managing, and leading high-performing teams of senior technical specialists.

- Demonstrated experience directing infrastructure capacity planning, hardware/cloud resource lifecycles, workload utilization modeling, and service continuity across large-scale, multi-service technical environments.

- Hands-on experience developing, governing, or implementing quantitative capacity models, demand forecasts, scenario analyses, unit economics, or multi-million dollar Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) / Capital Expenditure (CapEx/OpEx) business cases.

- Proven experience evaluating technical system architectures and governing technical investment decisions in partnership with cross-functional leadership across engineering, finance, procurement, and operations.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with infrastructure supply-and-demand planning, refresh justification, capacity forecasting, or FinOps.

- Experience modeling cloud commitments such as Savings Plans or Reserved Instances.

- Familiarity with compute virtualization, Kubernetes, accelerated compute, GPU/TPU environments, storage, databases, or platform services.

- Experience using operational and financial data from systems such as observability platforms, virtualization platforms, Kubernetes environments, cloud billing systems, Jira, or ServiceNow.

- Experience establishing governance, policy-as-code, decision records, scorecards, or closed-loop operating rhythms.

- Experience validating savings, cost avoidance, utilization improvements, or capacity outcomes with Finance.

The starting salary range for this position is $160,000.00 to $203,600.00.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Information Systems
- Business Administration
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Cloud/Platform Systems
- Technical Operations
- Enterprise Capacity Planning

### Nice to have
- FinOps
- Kubernetes
- Accelerated Compute
- GPU/TPU
- Cloud Commitments
- Savings Plans
- Reserved Instances

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