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This role is critical to helping us understand, optimize, and strategically manage our infrastructure spend across cloud and datacenter environments.\nIn this role, you will drive how efficiently we operate our multi-cloud footprint, including forecasting infrastructure demand and planning capacity, improving utilization, and reducing unit costs across compute, storage, and networking resources. 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