Capacity Planning Engineer Fixed Term

Location: Lisbon Portugal

Contract Type

This role is offered as a Fixed-Term Contract for one year.

Role:

We are looking for a dynamic and results-driven Capacity Planning Engineer to join our Infrastructure Capacity Engineering team.

In this role you will be responsible for aligning Cloudflares supply planning strategy with infrastructure capacity needs. You will ensure the right amount of compute networking and storage resources are available at the right time and in the right locations to support Cloudflares global infrastructure expansion. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the scaling of Cloudflares infrastructure and services.

You will collaborate cross-functionally with teams from Supply Chain Network Engineering Infrastructure Operations Finance and Procurement to drive operational excellence reduce costs and ensure that Cloudflare continues to deliver performance at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage supply plans to keep inventory optimized shorten lead times and make sure suppliers can support Cloudflares growth.
• Handle capacity planning to ensure hardware is deployed efficiently meeting performance cost and time goals.
• Work with procurement to develop sourcing strategies that lower supply chain risks and align with our business goals and budget.
• Team up with Infrastructure Operations and Data Center teams to speed up deployment timelines and ensure critical infrastructure is delivered on time.
• Build and maintain models to predict infrastructure needs based on business growth and traffic trends.
• Help scale the teams capabilities by bringing in new tools and methods to improve the planning and deployment process.
• Identify and solve risks related to supply chain issues or capacity shortages to ensure continuous scaling.
• Provide clear data-based insights and recommendations to senior members and leadership to improve planning and resource use.

Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience in supply planning capacity planning demand planning or a related field.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in supply planning optimizing supply chains and running scenario models in complex settings.
• Proficiency in data tools like Excel and SQL and experience with planning software (e.g. SAP Oracle or similar).
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills to work effectively with teams across different departments and global locations.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment manage multiple tasks and constantly look for ways to improve processes.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills to explain complex ideas simply to all levels of the organization.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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