IT Capacity Planning Manager jobs in the United States

Manager, Capacity Planning      

General Characteristics:

• Develops, manages and forecasts capacity requirements based on business needs and IT infrastructure growth capacity.
• Facilitates the development of policies to ensure that existing capacity is being used as efficiently as possible.
• Ensures data recovery, maintenance, data integrity and space requirements are met across a variety of platforms. Ensures that capacity workload modeling and availability analysis is performed for a variety of platforms and large environments.
• Serves as an expert resource to IT groups in planning the resource requirements for systems under development.
• Presents statistical availability and trend analysis and recommendations to IT management, IT leadership, and the business, as needed.
• Ensures reliability and availability of platforms to meet business objectives.

Dimensions Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field.
• Or equivalent work experience.

Experience:

• A minimum of 7 years of IT work experience including managing team(s) responsible for infrastructure/operations support in multi-platform environments.

Breadth:

• Middle level management in operations and management functions. Works under general direction of senior level management.
• Typically manages and mentors supervisors, project leaders and/or technical staff.
• Works on multiple, complex projects as a project leader and a subject matter expert.
• Frequently reports to an IT Chief Operating Officer, Director, Data Center Operations or Operating Unit IT Executive.