Capacity Planning Analyst

First Abu Dhabi Bank

Monitor performance data across compute, storage, network, and application layers to identify trends and capacity constraints.

Forecast resource needs using historical patterns, business growth projections, and seasonal variations.

Provide performance impact assessments for new projects, releases, and planned infrastructure changes.

Identify underutilised or over-provisioned resources to support cost optimisation initiatives.

Maintain performance models and review them with architecture and engineering teams.

Develop KPIs and SLIs that track capacity headroom, saturation risk, performance thresholds, and utilisation efficiency.

Maintain documentation on capacity thresholds, baselines, and forecasting assumptions.

Collaborate with infrastructure teams, application owners, and finance to align capacity plans with business budgets.

Support post-incident investigations by determining whether capacity constraints contributed to performance degradation or outages.

Embed capacity planning practices into change management, release management, and IT strategy processes.

Provide data-driven insights for annual budgeting, lifecycle management, and investment prioritisation.

Stay updated with industry technologies and tools in performance analytics and forecasting.

Skills Set

• Capacity forecasting
• IT performance analysis
• Resource utilisation modelling
• Predictive analytics
• Data analysis tools (Python, R, SQL, PowerPivot)
• Infrastructure planning
• Cost optimisation
• KPI and SLI development
• Cross-functional collaboration