Cloud Capacity Architect | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA

Cloud Capacity Architect | Netflix, Inc. | Los Gatos, CA

Cloud Capacity Architect

Cloud and Platform Engineering

Los Gatos, CA

Netflix operates a massive cloud-based footprint globally. Clusters come and grow, capacity ebbs and flows, a system is in a constant state of change. To add even more complexity, our engineers can push whenever they want and at whatever scale they desire. Putting it lightly, effective capacity planning can be a daunting task. Are you up for it?

We are looking for someone who is a master of capacity planning on highly dynamic and virtualized environments, understands and can characterize complex workloads, and along the way find opportunities to improve both global efficiency and performance. Working alongside a set of world-class performance engineers on our team your insight will help us tackle any capacity challenge that comes along.

Responsibilities
- Track, analyze, and trend our capacity on the cloud
- Analyze workloads for discrete subsets of services (e.g. online vs batch)
- Create tools which provide insight on capacity allocation patterns
- Identify cross-account capacity sharing strategies
- Work with key service teams to identify opportunities for optimization and more effective utilization
- Work closely with Financial Planning & Analysis team to drive accurate capacity purchases
- Help coordinate and drive large instance migrations across hundreds of services

Requirements
- 8+ years of working with large scale distributed systems, ideally with a capacity planning focus
- Ability to analyze complex system workloads
- Familiarity with capacity planning methodologies
- Strong background in statistical analysis
- Effective communicator, able to engage with internal teams as a consultant
- CS background or equivalent experience

Bonus Qualities
- Experience with capacity planning on AWS, primarily EC2
- Linux systems performance analysis
- Open source or software contributions in the area of capacity planning
- Programming skills in Java, Python, and R


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