Senior Principal Data Center Capacity Planner

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.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $90,100 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.


Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

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