Cloud Infrastructure Operations Strategist

5 days ago

San Francisco, California, United States Salesforce, Inc. Full time
Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Operations Strategist to join our team at Salesforce, Inc. in Seattle or San Francisco.

Job Description

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing strategic plans for cloud infrastructure operations, including data center power and space planning, cloud infrastructure management, and cost analysis. This role will also involve collaborating with technology and business stakeholders to drive continuous cost efficiencies, optimize resource consumption, reduce risk, and align spending with business objectives.

This is a highly multi-functional role that requires the ability to partner with data center stakeholders, including capacity engineering, network engineering, construction, site selection, site & facility operations, network, and finance teams.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead global data center strategy to ensure projected capacity demand is translated into an appropriate physical footprint plan.
  • Develop new data center planning strategies that focus on driving improvements in reliability, and achieving cost and operational efficiency, including reductions in deployment times, improvements in data center power utilization, and service placement optimizations.
  • Optimize network, hardware, and DC infrastructure footprints to drive TCO savings.
  • Orchestrate the development of power and space business cases, scenario development, and constraint analyses for infra leadership and collaborate with multiple teams at Salesforce (Sourcing, TPMs, Finance, DCEng, DCArch, etc).
  • Engage business units on the data center infrastructure landscape and timeframes to support critical activities. Provide data and develop infrastructure business cases related to data center facilities and hardware that considers the balance between cost and risk.
  • Apply quantitative techniques, develop decision scenarios, and trade-offs to drive multi-billion dollar infrastructure decisions at the highest level in the organization.
  • Provide infra-driven signals to Sourcing partners and work with them within a feedback loop to understand/incorporate cost and timing input from vendors.
  • Support efforts to translate asset constraints into a capacity plan-of-record and utilize CECM tooling development whenever possible to show cost impact related to refreshed/extended HW and extended DCs.
  • Help visualize 1P lifecycles, especially to represent the net hardware and facility ramp-down.
  • Partner with TPM team to regularly review, update, and approve capacity plan-of-record.
  • Work across teams to ensure Finance has acceptable incremental capex and opex data center inputs.
  • Analyze data center and hardware write-off based on the useful lives of facilities and assets.
  • Perform analyses of vendor commitments, spend, etc. to support supplier management and negotiations.
  • Support divestiture/sublet discussions related to data center offload.
  • Partner with Data Center engineering, FinOps, service owners, Tech, Sourcing, TPM, and Finance teams.
Requirements:
  • 5+ years of proven experience working in infrastructure/cloud/hardware with a background in strategy, capacity planning, supply chain optimization.
  • Experience with CAPEX and OPEX principles.
  • Problem-solving and strategy experience, including expansive opportunity identification, data-driven segmentation, and framing of sophisticated/ambiguous problems.
  • Experience in completing multiple cloud/infrastructure/hardware efficiency or optimization projects.
  • Technical experience in infrastructure, hardware, or similar designs.
  • Experience collaborating and working with internal and external organizations and individuals.
  • Experience in building decision scenarios & options and communicating at all levels of the org.
  • A related technical degree required.
  • Experience in infrastructure cost optimization planning and execution.
  • Experience with public cloud financial tools and cost management such as AWS Cost explorer, AWS CUR.
  • Knowledge of FinOps principles and best practices.
Salary Information

The estimated salary for this position in Seattle ranges from $176,800 to $243,100 per year, while in San Francisco, it ranges from $192,900 to $265,200 per year.

Please note that the actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

About Us

Salesforce, Inc. is committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives. We believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world.

We welcome all applicants and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

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