IT Infrastructure Capacity Planner

We Are:At Synopsys, we drive the innovations that shape the way we live and connect. Our technology is central to the Era of Pervasive Intelligence, from self-driving cars to learning machines. We lead in chip design, verification, and IP integration, empowering the creation of high-performance silicon chips and software content. Join us to transform the future through continuous technological innovation.

You Are: a deeply technical and creative IT Infrastructure Capacity Planner who is passionate and technically savvy with a lot of love towards Data centers resources capacity planning and want to challenge yourself. You possess strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills and have a knack for planning and allocating compute & storage resources.Your excellent communication skills enable you to collaborate smoothly with cross-functional teams and represent work to senior leadership. You are comfortable in a matrixed, international, team-oriented environment and are adept at managing priorities and alignments across different stakeholders. You are an experienced and process oriented individual contributor ready to join a new wave of transformation at Synopsys.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Own capacity planning for all of Synopsys: Plans for how to scale infrastructure resources most efficiently.
• Execute demand planning processes resulting in strategic alignment across multiple stakeholders to develop infrastructure capacity plans for the acquisition of infrastructure resources.
• Develop and analyze various business and technical scenarios to drive the highest levels of executive decision making around infrastructure resources.
• Build automated, scalable, and rigorous solutions to infrastructure problems by leveraging or developing state-of-the-art automation, mathematical optimization, and/or AI models.
• Work cross-functionally to define problem statements, collect data, build analytical models, and make recommendations to drive change and optimization at the most strategic levels.
• Identify capacity-related issues proactively and work across technical and business teams to define and implement solutions.
• Desire to learn about capacity planning and optimization.
• Identify issues at on-demand/scale deployments and resolve those within an agreed SLA.
• Identify opportunities to invent and simplify processes, identifying business risks and implementing resolutions and scalable mechanisms.
• Ensure efficient resource utilization and continuously improve processes leveraging automation and internal tools resulting in enhanced service delivery, maturity, and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to plan and execute infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and implementation projects.
• Conduct research to identify new technologies and solutions.
• Create and maintain documentation and standard operating procedures.

Required Skills:

• Extensive experience with a wide range of infrastructure technologies, such as but not limited toLinux, Windows, High-performance computing, storage platforms, networking, cloud computing, cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.), virtualization, OpenStack,containerization, and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with infrastructure project planning and execution.
• Have a strong command and understanding of statistical concepts/models/analysis and how they relate to product reliability & life cycle analysis.
• Experience developing quantitative and qualitative analysis and metrics to solve business problems.
• Experience with developing service level indicators and objectives, instrumenting software, and building alerts.
• Hands on experience with one or more of Java/Python/Go/AngularJS/NodeJS languages.
• Implementation experience in infra-automation tools and frameworks like GitHub, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, Terraform (IaC), Ansible, Shell scripting.
• Passion for tracking down technical root causes of distributed systems, and software.
• Service availability-oriented mindset with a pro-active approach to problem solving. An ideal candidate should be able to develop automated solutions to prevent recurring problems.
• Strong time management skills, ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and deliver results within deadlines.
• Experience to manage ambiguity, effective intellectual curiosity to learn new aspects of the business.
• Good verbal and writing skills as well as the ability to communicate at a high level.
• Self-motivating, independent, and committed to getting things done.
• Possesses the ability and willingness to challenge the status-quo and optimize current processes and procedures.

Education & Experience:

• Masters/Bachelor's degree with minimum of 5+ years of experience
• 4+ years of experience with performance analysis, infrastructure capacity planning in large organizations.

The base salary range across the U.S. for this role is between $98,000.00 - $146,000.00. In addition, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request.