Head of Capacity

About the role

Own capacity planning across compute, storage, networking, and datacenter infrastructure.
Build forecasting models for infrastructure demand and growth.
Partner with engineering to understand future workload requirements.
Develop deployment plans across regions and datacenter partners.
Manage relationships with hardware vendors, datacenter providers, and infrastructure suppliers.
Lead hardware procurement and infrastructure expansion efforts.
Evaluate new suppliers, hardware platforms, and deployment opportunities.
Track utilization and ensure infrastructure investments are deployed efficiently.
Build processes and systems that allow Blacksmith to scale from thousands of servers to many times that number.

Responsibilities

• Own capacity planning across compute, storage, networking, and datacenter infrastructure.
• Build forecasting models for infrastructure demand and growth.
• Partner with engineering to understand future workload requirements.
• Develop deployment plans across regions and datacenter partners.
• Manage relationships with hardware vendors, datacenter providers, and infrastructure suppliers.
• Lead hardware procurement and infrastructure expansion efforts.
• Evaluate new suppliers, hardware platforms, and deployment opportunities.
• Track utilization and ensure infrastructure investments are deployed efficiently.
• Build processes and systems that allow Blacksmith to scale from thousands of servers to many times that number.

Requirements

Experience operating large-scale infrastructure, cloud, hosting, networking, or datacenter environments.
Experience with capacity planning, forecasting, or infrastructure operations.
Ability to balance long-term planning with day-to-day operational realities.
Strong analytical skills and comfort making decisions under uncertainty.
Strong vendor management and negotiation skills.
Effective communication and collaboration with both technical and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience at a hyperscaler, cloud provider, hosting company, CDN, or infrastructure startup.
• Experience procuring servers, networking equipment, storage, or datacenter capacity.
• Experience managing infrastructure supply chains.
• Experience scaling infrastructure through periods of hypergrowth.

Skills

Highly analytical and comfortable making decisions under uncertainty.
Strong vendor management and negotiation skills.
Effective communication and collaboration with both technical and business stakeholders.

Benefits

Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
Competitive base + equity.
401K match.
Unlimited PTO.
Annual offsite.

Pay

Compensation details not specified.

Schedule

Work schedule not specified.