Lead, Infrastructure Capacity Management

Become a part of our caring community   The Lead, Infrastructure Capacity Management conducts supply/demand, trend analyses and makes proactive capacity planning recommendations to mitigate risk and rationalize the optimal amount of hardware, software and network resources to meet business needs, service level requirements and IT infrastructure growth capacity. The Lead, Infrastructure Capacity Management works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial. The Lead, Infrastructure Capacity Management ensures that capacity workload modeling and Performance Optimization and availability analysis is performed for a variety of platforms and environments. Serves as a subject matter expert to application development, systems administration and engineering and other technical and business staff in planning the resource requirements for systems under development. Develops, maintains, recommends, documents and supports tools and backend utilities to provide capacity planning management. Facilitates the development of policies to ensure that existing capacity is being used as efficiently as possible. Advises executives to develop functional strategies (often segment specific) on matters of significance. Exercises sound judgment and decision-making on complex issues and initiatives, working with minimal supervision. Analyzes multiple factors and business considerations to determine and implement effective solutions. Use your skills to make an impact   Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Data Analytics , Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field • 8+ years of experience in cloud, and On-prem databases, infrastructure, or platform engineering. • Expertise in cloud capacity planning, performance engineering, workload forecasting, and resource optimization. • 5+ years of experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) , containerized platforms, Kubernetes administration, and cloud-native architectures. • 5+ years of experience designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud and database architectures across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP. • Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Nutanix, Open Suite , and enterprise platform technologies. • Strong experience with cloud-native and enterprise database platforms, including Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies. • Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure, databases, applications, and AI/ML workloads for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. • Experience with cloud monitoring, observability, capacity management, and financial management (FinOps) practices. • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to partner across engineering, operations, architecture, and business teams. • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving strategic technology outcomes. Preferred Qualifications • Experience establishing enterprise standards and best practices for cloud architecture, database platforms, AI platforms, and performance optimization. • Experience with multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and cloud modernization initiatives. • Experience with Azure OpenAI, Databricks AI, Vertex AI, GPU-based workloads, or other enterprise AI/ML platforms. • Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud automation technologies. • Cloud certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect, or Google Professional Cloud Architect . Additional Information This is a hybrid role based in Louisville, KY . Candidates must reside within commuting distance of Louisville and be able to work onsite a