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Description:
Capacity Planning Engineer

Qualifications:
Responsibilities: As a member of this team, candidate will work with highly skilled individuals who have been shaping the industry in the US for years and have now only just started venturing into Latin America, bringing with it, expertise unrivalled in the industry. Ideal candidate should be someone who enjoys and can lead the data analysis and capacity planning for networks & feels strongly not only about optimizing the network and system capacity and content delivery networks but also complex applications that make up the network infrastructure. You must enjoy a close-knit team environment of shared responsibility.

Analyze the current network and systems architecture for high performance, availability and redundancy and provide guidance on capacity optimization
Work on BMC BCO Capacity planning tool to evaluate current and future state of network and systems and provide guidance and recommendations regarding future capacity growth.
Analyze requirements from the business and determine when to scale up and scale down the infrastructure
Compile data from various tools (CMDB) to aggregate the data and present this to executives across the organization.
Interface with vendors to resolve technical issues with their equipment
Work with various system vendors on evaluating system capacity in the video distribution network and provide recommendations. Systems include routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, content caches etc.
Engage with project teams on major initiatives to understand traffic volumes, work flows and hardware requirements to plan for adequate capacity
Generate and analyze network utilization reports to identify areas of growth and requirements for upgrades and expansion
Present performance and capacity reports and roadmap for critical project and cost analyses
Identify capacity-related issues proactively and work with systems, network, application operations and engineering teams to discover resolutions.



Requires BS/BA in related discipline (i.e., Computer Science, Information Systems) and 3-5 years of experience in related field (i.e., Network Engineering, IP Video Delivery, Content Delivery Networks, Linux System Admin)
Experience with BCM capacity planning tools a plus
Strong analytical, budgeting and planning skills
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Experience developing SQL queries preferred.