About the job
Overall Objectives
•To guarantee that the IT infrastructure and application environments are appropriately sized and proactively adjusted to accommodate current and future business demands.
•To analyze and report on system performance trends, utilization patterns, and workload forecasts across compute, storage, network, and application layers.
•To assist in strategic investment planning and operational readiness by identifying capacity risks, inefficiencies, and optimization opportunities.
•To facilitate a data-driven approach to resource planning, cost management, and service resilience.
Role-Specific Responsibilities
•Continuously monitor and analyze system and application performance data to uncover utilization trends and capacity constraints.
•Forecast resource needs based on historical data, business growth projections, seasonal variations, and planned changes.
•Support project and release planning by providing assessments of performance impacts and capacity risk analysis.
•Contribute to cost optimization initiatives by identifying over-provisioned resources and underutilized assets.
•Manage performance models for core systems and conduct regular reviews with architecture and engineering teams.
•Develop and refine KPIs and SLIs to measure capacity headroom, saturation risk, and performance thresholds.
General Functional Responsibilities
•Maintain detailed documentation on capacity thresholds, utilization baselines, and forecasting assumptions.
•Collaborate with application owners, infrastructure leads, and finance teams to align technical capacity plans with business budgets.
•Support post-incident reviews by analyzing whether resource saturation contributed to outages or performance degradation.
•Integrate capacity planning processes within change management, release planning, and IT strategy reviews.
•Participate in annual budget planning and infrastructure lifecycle management by providing data-driven recommendations.
•Stay abreast of evolving technologies and tools in performance analytics and capacity forecasting.
