Technical Program Manager III, Resource Planning, Cloud Storage

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 Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

To deliver a reliable, efficient, and scalable capacity planning experience for Cloud Flex customers while adhering to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) financial guardrails.

Core Responsibilities Planning and Forecasting are creating 18-month resource forecasts (GCU, RAM, Disk) for organic growth and new launches. Ensuring supply meets demand while managing allocations and staying within financial limits. Managing resource distribution from pantries to the flex pool and coordinating with services like BigQuery and PD. Driving initiatives for a touchless capacity pipeline to reduce toil and improve efficiency.

The team ensures Cloud Flex provides the right resources at the right time. They collaborate closely with service owners, supply chain, and power planning teams to power GCP infrastructure cost-effectively.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. 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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $163000 - $237000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about [benefits at Google](https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/).

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for planning all non-standard supply actions required to support persistent disk capacity. Plan and execute persistent disk zone and cluster capacity moves.
• Automate and manage persistent disk quota moves, including co-planning with GCE and coordinating with the pool inventory management team on divestments to fund moves.
• Provide clear visibility into Confidential Hyperdisk (CHD) capacity and utilization through alerting and proactive management.
• Support effort to diversify hardware platforms for CHD to mitigate supply risks and increase deployment flexibility.
• Optimize and devise a multi-platform strategy to manage and operate protected pools including new turn-ups.Lead network-aware initiatives for PD, including via the minotaur and other programs.