Senior Capacity Planner

5+ years of experience in capacity planning, infrastructure operations, or program/project management in a technical environment

Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills, including working with both technical and non-technical internal stakeholders

Experience working with bare metal or physical server infrastructure

Solid understanding of containerized workloads (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and how they consume underlying physical capacity

Working knowledge of networking fundamentals as they relate to infrastructure deployment

Experience using observability tools (metrics, logging, monitoring) to inform infrastructure decisions

Strong program-building skills — comfortable creating structure, documentation, and playbooks from scratch

Experience coordinating budget requests and procurement processes for hardware

Ability to translate internal customer needs — both infrastructure and software-driven — into actionable capacity plans

Comfort with SQL and data visualization tools (e.g. Looker, Grafana) for tracking and reporting

Working knowledge of data center rack and power capacity planning concepts

Bonus: experience as a consultant or technical project manager driving nebulous projects to completion

Bonus: experience with data center inventory tools such as dcTrack or Netbox

We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.

We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.

We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.

We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.