FinOps Lead

Company: Abra Published: 13th December 2022 Closing Date: 31st January 2023

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FinOps Lead

Our fast-growing organization is looking for a talented FinOps lead. in this position you will be responsible for our customers AWS and Azure Cost Optimisation Data Analyst focused on forecasting cloud spending, allocating, budgeting cloud spending, and recommendations for cloud optimizations

Responsibilities

· Investigate and understand the basis for every line item on our cloud infrastructure invoices

· Optimize performance to spend where you need to and redistribute resources

· Suggest areas for improving spend by finding better rates or improved technology

· Find anomalies in usage patterns and give quick feedback in order to course-correct

· Predict, plan, and ensure resources utilization to estimate the need for the future and negotiate a discount or pre-allocate resources

· Create business intelligence reporting to inform the broader organization and empower other teams to facilitate cost optimization and minimize waste

· Assist in architectural designs and decisions

· Having real-time data you can predict and make decisions to optimize costs

· Review customer’s cloud infrastructure and produce cost optimization reports on monthly bases

Requirements and Qualifications

· Data-driven and detail-oriented; testing and measuring every step

· Knowledge of relevance monitoring and measuring to identify areas for improvement

· Automate everything you can

· Keep up to date on the latest cloud products and trends

· Be able to consolidate several streams of information to see the big picture

· Curious about every detail and strive to understand the bases for your data fully

· Knowledge of AWS and Azure pricing ( Saving Plan, RI )

Desired Skills and Experience

· Intimate familiarity with the cost structure of AWS and Azure products and services

· Real-world experience with BI and/or cost trackings tools such as PowerBI or AWS QuickSight – advantage

· Experience in negotiating long-term commitments and contracts broad knowledge of MSPs and third-party software platforms

· 2+ years of relevant work experience