Capacity Manager – Mid

Leidos

. Capacity Planning and Forecasting - Monitor utilization and growth trends across compute, storage, network, and cloud services to identify short- and long-term capacity risks.

Posted 5/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $73,450 - $132,775 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Capacity Planning and Forecasting - Monitor utilization and growth trends across compute, storage, network, and cloud services to identify short- and long-term capacity risks.
Develop and maintain rolling capacity plans and 24-month forecasts for enterprise systems and infrastructure services.
Define capacity thresholds, assumptions, and trigger points for scaling, technology refresh, and resource reallocation.
Recommend proactive actions to prevent performance degradation, reduce service risk, and optimize resource use.
Performance Monitoring and Reporting - Use capacity management and performance monitoring tools to track health, availability, and utilization across on-premises and cloud environments.
Analyze operational telemetry and trend data to identify bottlenecks, recurring constraints, and opportunities for efficiency.
Build and maintain dashboards and reports that communicate capacity posture, risk, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Support weekly/monthly reporting aligned to SEC ISS operational visibility and SLA measurement expectations.
Support incident triage and problem management for capacity-related outages and performance events.
Provide data-driven impact analysis during major incidents and coordinate mitigation actions with engineering and operations teams.
Contribute to root cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned to reduce repeat issues.
Track capacity-related risks and remediation items through operational governance and reporting cycles.
Partner with engineering teams to plan upgrades, migrations, and platform changes with sufficient capacity and performance headroom.
Validate resource readiness for new services, workload shifts, and modernization activities.
Provide capacity input to change planning, including expected impact, dependencies, and post-change validation.
Maintain documentation for baselines, forecasts, assumptions, and capacity decisions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum 5 years of experience in capacity planning and performance management within enterprise IT environments.
Strong understanding of IT infrastructure components, including servers, storage, and network systems.
Familiarity with capacity management tools and methodologies, as well as ITIL best practices.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts, risks, and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders and leadership.
Proficiency in capacity modeling tools and performance monitoring solutions.
Knowledge of cloud and virtualization technologies.
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health and Wellness programs
Income Protection
Paid Leave
Retirement

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Hard Skills & Tools

capacity planningperformance managementcapacity modelingperformance monitoringdata analysisroot cause analysisresource allocationtechnology refreshincident managementSLA measurement

Soft Skills

analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillsstakeholder management