Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is a global entertainment company focused on delivering storytelling and streaming experiences to members worldwide. The Capacity Analyst (L5) - Fleet Planner will lead end-to-end planning and optimization of Netflix’s global hardware infrastructure, including acquisition, deployment, refresh, and retirement strategies. The role partners with engineering, finance, and supply chain teams to translate demand signals into fleet plans, optimize costs, manage risks, and influence senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Development of Long-Range Infrastructure Capacity Strategies: Create forward-looking strategies that inform long-term financial planning, network design, and near-term deployment and implementation decisions
- Effective Infrastructure Allocation: Convert demand forecasts across multiple products into clear, actionable capacity plans and strategic recommendations to drive investment decisions. Balance infrastructure availability across product types
- Data-Driven Analyses for Platform Optimization and Scalability: Conduct ongoing, data-driven analyses focused on optimizing efficiency, spend, and architectural direction while ensuring long-term platform scalability and resiliency
- Risk Assessment & Management: Identification of potential risks related to capacity shortages or excesses and development of mitigation strategies
- Infrastructure Performance Monitoring: Continuous tracking of infrastructure performance and utilization to identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies
- Own the multi-year fleet refresh plan for Netflix's global hardware infrastructure, including servers, networking equipment, and storage systems, translating engineering roadmaps and business priorities into coherent long-term fleet plans
- Partner with Engineering, Finance, and Supply Chain teams to align fleet strategy with business priorities and budget constraints
- Collaborate cross-functionally to define and track key fleet health metrics (utilization, age distribution, failure rates) to drive continuous optimization and life-cycle optimization
- Lead hardware procurement planning in collaboration with Business Operations team, ensuring supply meets demand without over-provisioning
- Identify opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) through smarter fleet composition, lifecycle management, and decommissioning strategies, and build the business case for those changes
- Build and present fleet planning roadmaps and recommendations to senior leadership
- Drive cross-functional alignment on fleet standards, refresh policies, and end-of-life decisions, ensuring consistency across engineering and infrastructure teams
- Act as a thought partner to engineering leads on how emerging hardware technologies and architectural changes should influence future fleet composition
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in capacity planning for data center or cloud platforms, or network planning
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in data analysis and visualization, with proficiency in SQL, Python a plus
- Knowledge of — or strong curiosity about — the internet, or telecom ecosystem
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for both technical and executive audiences
- A track record of turning ambiguous, cross-functional problems into structured plans, even when the underlying data is incomplete
- Comfort operating independently while building consensus across teams that don't report to you
- Proficiency in AI tools
- A degree in Management Information Systems, Management Consulting, Statistics, or a related quantitative field — or equivalent hands-on experience
- Familiarity with hardware lifecycle management, procurement processes, or supply-chain planning
- Experience building financial or TCO models to support infrastructure investment decisions
- Technical Program Management Experience is preferred
- Technical Program Management experience, particularly in environments spanning engineering, finance, and operations
Benefits
- Health Plans
- Mental Health support
- A 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
- Stock Option Program
- Disability Programs
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Family-forming benefits
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- Paid leave of absence programs
- Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off
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