Google – Program Manager, Cloud Capacity Planning
Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of experience in program management working in cross-functional projects.
Experience in IT Infrastructure resource planning and management for compute/memory/storage resources.
Experience with Python or SQL.
Preferred qualifications:
Master’s degree or MBA.
Experience in hardware or systems, with the understanding of technology change.
Knowledge of quantitative assessment and analysis across multiple technical disciplines.
About the job
A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It’s your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and innovate their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers and software infrastructure.
In this role, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.
Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
Manage complexity, cost, and risk in partnership with cross-functional stakeholder teams across Site Reliability Engineering, Developer, Product Management, Supply Chain, Planning and Efficiency.
Maintain analytics to understand obscured problems, propose data-driven solutions, support proposed solutions, and own and manage the execution.
Prioritize and manage capacity to ensure Google Cloud Platform external customers can scale by ensuring the right type of machines are available in the right place at the right time. Communicate/report in the form of weekly business reviews to leadership teams.
Create a future roadmap for programs around data center capacity management including building the necessary KPI to track, manage, and report status and progress.
