Strategic Datacenter Planner - Inside Plant

The Role

You will drive the presence of euNetworks' lit network platforms in commercial datacentres within our footprint in the background of Sales demand and lease cost optimisation. This includes the selection of new datacentre presence and it will accommodate closure of existing datacentre space within that strategy.

You understand and model the aggregated future capacity demand of the network platforms into datacentre space and power and you derive models for cost-efficient growth and retirement within these datacentres.

You will drive processes and tool development to accommodate the space and power utilisation of the network inventory and to improve the standards of audit and data reconciliation.

What will you be doing?

• Analysing historical data and market trends to predict future growth potential and life cycle expectations. This involves understanding trends in datacentre demands, gross power and cooling availability as well as EU (and national) regulations.
• Analysing historical data and internal platform growth expectations to predict future resource demands and requirements accurately. This involves understanding growth patterns, platform dependencies and customer demands.
• Modelling the life cycle of space and power growth and retirement in new and existing datacentres in order to optimise running cost and capital expenditure, working together with Vendor relations in negotiations.
• Evaluating existing datacentre resources, such as space and power utilisation to determine their current capacity and identify potential bottlenecks. Generate refill activities within the Network Planning team.
• Creating data visualizations and reports to communicate findings effectively.
• Developing reports and dashboards in Salesforce Analytics and work with IT in setting up an internal capacity monitoring.
• Developing and implementing machine learning algorithms and models to perform capacity planning on multiple network and colocation platforms
• Establishing and driving the consistent power and space demand model within the network inventory and work with IT in reconciliation projects
• Work with internal and external fibre and datacentre teams to accommodate the demand for passive cable management resources.
• Drive tool adoption and guidelines to improve quality and security standards for datacentre space.
• Driving lit network builds to strategic DC presence with Network Development, Product and Architecture teams.

Team structure: As part of the Capacity Management team you will report to the Head of Planning and Deployment. The team is part of the Network Planning & Deployment, including Network Deployments, Service Planning, Optimisation and Inventory Management functions.

What do we want from you?

• Familiarity with the commercial datacentre business including the major players, their products and business models.
• Understanding of optical networking technologies and their relation to space and power demands.
• Experience in data analytics, reports and visualisations.
• Experience in planning and managing capital and operational budgets
• Proactive thinking and strong analytical skills
• The ability to work with cross - functional teams, and effective communication skills to present findings and to stakeholders and management
• A desire to learn and develop in your role.
• Ability to work across geographical boundaries and borders.
• Knowledge of Salesforce, Visio and Microsoft Office Suite programs are beneficial but not essential

If this position is of interest but you don’t think you meet all of the criteria listed, please consider applying still. euNetworks looks to recruit people with the right attitude, potential and ambition and for the right candidate, we will provide further training and support to enable you to develop in the role.