Senior FinOps / Cloud Optimisation Analyst

As Senior FinOps Analyst, you’ll be responsible for:

• Forming trusted advisor relationships with enterprise scale clients.
• Acting as a SME for FinOps within Softcat.
• Setting long-term goals with customers, developing strategies to achieve them, and leading initiatives to drive FinOps adoption across the organization.
• Utilising industry-leading cloud management tooling and native tooling to proactively leverage FinOps data.
• Providing detailed reporting around cost visibility and optimisation, ensuring that insights reach the right stakeholders on the client side.
• Providing break/fix support around industry-leading cloud management solutions and leveraging the ticketing system (ServiceNow).
• Continuously improving FinOps processes and practices, including identifying areas for improvement, implementing best practices, and staying current with industry trends and development
• Developing and driving the service forward, proactively identifying efficiency opportunities within the team.
• Running 1 to 1s with members of the team.
• Mentoring junior staff.

We’d love you to have

• Extensive FinOps knowledge
• FinOps Practitioner Certification is required (FinOps Certified Engineer desired)

Knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP. Certified in: AZ900, AWS Certified Practitioner, AZ104 (desired), AWS – Certified Solutions Architect (desired)

• Extensive experience around multi cloud cost optimisation.
• Experience with cloud cost management tooling (CloudHealth, Cloudability, Flexera, and native tools).
• Ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders within an enterprise customer.
• Proactively use your own skillset and that of the team to solve problems and challenges whilst supporting more junior members of the team in the same way.
• Ownership of your learning and development.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!