Job Description

Responsibilities:

Position Title
Capacity Planner/Manager

Position Location

Pune/Hyderabad - Remote

Work Hours

Regular Shift


Primary Responsibilities

Capacity and Usage Tracking, forecast future financials, Projecting future capacity, cost analysis and observations
Capacity and Consumption / Usage Capacity – Physical size by copy, by type, by location, use case Usage – in use by Primary and DR, compared to thresholds Track TB usage over time – annual growth (primary only, all types) Software license consumption past, current and projection for growth Software license requirements
Reports Power BI reports in place Creating new reports/tables (will be more successful if can build their own)
Storage Cost analysis Total Cost, unit cost by type, country Trends As percentage of service and TCO Comparisons to cloud offerings
Forecast Start and End dates for lease or depreciation Maintenance end date consideration Forecasting for lifecycle and growth Overall run rate for storage, and by storage type
Execute New purchase and/or Lifecycle of storage: Bidding, Buying, Approvals, Transition to Service
Lifecycle Planning Submitting GEP (or equivalent) Requirements and Configuration – Work with the product owner to confirm / update the selection of the storage

• OEM, Model, Type (what are the valid architectures for the use case)

• Performance Characteristics

• Data reduction capabilities

• Sizing – Plus x months/years of growth

• Configuration - Drive size, Memory, Ports, etc.

• Software

• Support

• New bid or use prior transactions as precedent for cost

• do we move workloads, does something not life cycling need to be improved where we can leverage this buy, etc.

• Are we changing things, standard sizing, remapping, rebuilding pools

Bidding process Work with Global Sourcing to communicate requirements, timing, presentation of bid Work with suppliers and OEMs – sizing, requirements, duration of support, expectations of anything unusual, help them submit the right thing Any services to include (install, configure, etc.)
Approval, Purchase and Transition to Service Selection process

• Cost per TB, cost per usable, positive/negative factors causing capacity needed

• Ex: Waste per array (“you can only run to 80%”)

Integration with other services and transition to production

• Considerations: Network, Facilities, Power, Impact to VMWare pools, SAN

Approval – approval limits, approval memo, working with Sourcing and Product owner Build MFAM – model, deprecation, work with buyer to get PO done Receipt – did we get what we ordered, timing, correct location, config, etc.

Secondary Responsibilities

• 
  Software Asset Management, Building a team/Limited HR Responsibilities.

Required Years of Experience
15+

Required Educational Qualification
BE/B.Tech or Any graduate

Required Technical Skills & candidate profile

• 
  In depth knowledge of compute/Virtualisation/storage technologies.

• Should have managed multi location data centre and related technologies.

• Techno Commercial Capabilities

• AWS/Azure Cloud Exposure

Required behavioural competencies

• Meticulous Approach, attention to detail.

• Ability to work independently

• Ability to work with various products owners across domains

• Team Player

Qualifications: �Education: GraduateBachelors degree (any stream)

�Skill set:
�Good Knowledge of Project Execution Methodologies - Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, SAFE

�Operations Management, Stakeholder Management, Thought Leadership

Other: Good inter personal skills, Excellent communication and time management skills, Ability to drive the results and ownership.

Workplace Flexibility Option: In-Office few days a week and Work from Home