CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager, Infrastructure Services

Apple • Denver, CO

8h

About The Position

Apple Edge Services brings content to people with Apple devices around the world. Our innovative team is responsible for resiliency and quality customer experiences through our hardware and software running in global data centers. The Edge Services team is looking for a CDN Capacity & Infrastructure Manager to own capacity planning, forecasting, and infrastructure health across our global content delivery network. You’ll be the bridge between traffic trends, hardware procurement, and operational reliability — ensuring our edge infrastructure scales ahead of demand without overbuilding. This role sits at the intersection of network engineering, data analysis, and vendor/operations coordination, and is accountable for making sure the CDN never runs out of headroom during peak events while keeping cost and utilization in balance. To support our expanding edge delivery footprint and high-concurrency traffic events (major OS releases, live sports/entertainment streaming, and continuous service growth), we need a Capacity & Infrastructure Manager to lead demand forecasting, fleet lifecycle execution, and unit-economics optimization for our Content Delivery Network. This role bridges edge software engineering, global network peering/transit, and hardware supply chain—establishing rigorous capacity models, mitigating long-lead hardware risks across colocation facilities, and optimizing multi-terabit peering commitments. By transitioning our edge footprint to predictive, data-driven modeling, this hire directly protects user experience while driving discipline into our infrastructure CapEx spend.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in capacity planning, infrastructure engineering, or network operations, ideally within CDN, cloud, or large-scale distributed systems environments
• Demonstrated experience forecasting infrastructure capacity using traffic/usage data
• Understanding of CDN architecture fundamentals (edge/PoP design, caching, traffic routing, origin shielding)
• Experience working with monitoring and analytics tooling to track utilization and performance metrics
• Track record coordinating cross-functionally with network engineering, SRE, and vendor/procurement teams
• Data analysis skills (SQL and/or scripting) to build forecasting models and reporting

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with time-series forecasting methods or capacity modeling tools
• Experience with data center or colocation site planning and hardware lifecycle management
• Background in live-streaming or high-traffic event capacity planning
• Experience with observability stacks (e.g., Splunk, ClickHouse, Grafana) for capacity/utilization reporting
• Exposure to automation/orchestration tooling for infrastructure provisioning
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting technical findings to leadership
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Own capacity planning, forecasting, and infrastructure health across our global content delivery network.
• Ensure edge infrastructure scales ahead of demand without overbuilding.
• Lead demand forecasting, fleet lifecycle execution, and unit-economics optimization for our Content Delivery Network.
• Establish rigorous capacity models.
• Mitigate long-lead hardware risks across colocation facilities.
• Optimize multi-terabit peering commitments.
• Transition edge footprint to predictive, data-driven modeling.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree