Senior Capacity Engineer (Cloud)

TL;DR

Senior Capacity Engineer (Cloud): Shaping and optimizing infrastructure strategy for hirify.global's products and services with an accent on strategic capacity planning, cost optimization, and large-scale hybrid cloud infrastructure management. Focus on maintaining the stability and performance of services while supporting long-term growth and cost efficiency.

Location: We are currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.

Salary: $166,600—$225,400 CAD

Company

hirify.global is a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of work.

What you will do

• Own strategic roadmap for capacity planning and cost optimization across assigned hirify.global portfolio.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of usage patterns, growth forecasts, and business requirements at the product level.
• Own cost transparency efforts and drive efficiency improvements across private and public cloud environments, improving gross margin.
• Design and maintain Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models for key platform components.
• Lead projects related to the migration of data and services across private and public cloud environments, ensuring minimal disruption and optimization of cost and performance.
• Serve as the primary point of contact with physical infrastructure teams and software infrastructure teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 7+ years of hands-on experience in capacity planning or a related field, focusing on designing, forecasting, supply demand matching and scaling infrastructure to support high-demand, large-scale environments.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling for analyzing large datasets and generating insights to support capacity planning and infrastructure optimization.
• Strong experience in designing and implementing scalable capacity and forecasting models, including storage, compute, and network infrastructure.
• Experience in cloud FinOps with strong capabilities in cost modeling, TCO analysis, and cost optimization for cloud and data center environments.

Nice to have

• Strong coding proficiency and experience with data engineering tools (e.g. Airflow, Databricks) to build scalable data pipelines and logging infrastructure to support capacity planning.
• Experience managing and optimizing large-scale environments running both private and public cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in network and/or power planning and forecasting with engineering and data science teams.
• Experience with operations research, mathematical optimization, and applying AI or machine learning to improve capacity planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection.
• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage.
• Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off policy in addition to statutory holidays.
• Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more.
• Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support.
• Mental health and wellness benefits.