FinOps Consultant

As a FinOps Consultant you will help to drive cost optimisation and efficiency in cloud environments. This is a hands-on and customer facing role helping organisations design and implement FinOps capabilities to continuously optimise spend and deliver maximum value from their public cloud investment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collate, analyse, prioritise cloud cost optimisation recommendations and calculate potential savings and benefits using FinOps tools
• Implement rate and usage optimisations within public cloud environments (Azure, AWS and GCP)
• Create high quality customer facing collateral explaining cloud cost optimisation and FinOps and present them to customers, both technical and non-technical
• Design and implement FinOps maturity roadmaps for customers to accelerate their FinOps capabilities from scratch or optimise existing approach
• Design and deliver training and enablement sessions to raise their understanding of cloud finance and economics
• Collaborate with pre-sales, professional services and managed services to design and implement cost optimisations recommendations and best practices.

Skills / Experience

• Hands on experience implementing FinOps to optimise cloud costs, with deep understanding of levers available to optimise cloud costs
• Strong understanding of the FinOps Framework, capabilities, lifecycle and domains
• Hands on experience with native and 3rd party public cloud cost management tools
• Comfortable public speaking and presenting to a wide range of audiences
• Ability to work independently with strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships
• Highly strong numerical and finance skills to investigate data and spot trends and anomalies

*Flexibility to travel to clients and London HQ when required

Qualifications

Required:

• Certifications such as FinOps Practitioner or FinOps Professional

Preferred but not essential:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals