Cloud FinOps Engineer III

As a Cloud FinOps Engineer for Pearson, you will be helping to collect and analyze data to provide Cloud financial insights critical to our success as a business as it relates to an Infrastructure and Operations organization.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Produce insightful reports for multi-cloud platforms that can be shared with and actioned by Management.
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams globally, assimilating requirements, driving results in the form of data insights and building strategic partnerships.
• Support the FinOps team with setting goals/KPIs, retrieving data and modeling
• Partner heavily with our Cloud Governance team to map data process flows, allowing FinOps to gather a single source of data source.
• Analyze and forecast cloud hosting costs.
• Provide cost optimization recommendations.
• Create and maintain month-end and quarter-end reports.
• Use Agile methodology for planning and execution.
• Use tools and technology to make data driven decisions.
• Collecting requirements for targeted automation projects; exploring potential solutions based on fit, up-skilling need, team skillsets, cost, and current and long-term strategies

What Skills You Need

• Self-starter who can also work remotely with a team to deliver superior customer service
• Knowledge of financial principles and business analytics.
• Ability to work with multiple internal teams to provide the best experience for our customers
• Understanding of applications development environment, database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints.
• Ability to analyze and produce meaningful insights from large datasets
• Strong analytical background with an aptitude for understanding technology
• Experience with advanced Excel functions required
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, etc.
• PowerBI Developer Experience
• Python Data Analytics Skills
• Agentic AI Experience
• Willingness to work 6:30 PM IST to 3:30AM IST

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience with Cloud billing and cost management tools and processes
• Experience in cost management tactics such as enterprise-wide discount programs and commitment plans (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Sustained Use/Committed Use Discounts)
• Experience with 3rd party cloud cost optimization tools (Cloudability)
• Understanding of database and big data management capabilities and constraints (RDBMS, NoSQL, Datalake, etc)
• Experience managing or developing automation with object-oriented programming languages (Java, Python) and understanding of appropriate use
• Experience with the AWS Cloud platform and leveraging appropriate AWS services (e.g. S3, Lambda) as part of development of automated solutions.
• Experience leveraging REST API for extracting and/or posting data
• Understanding of building and deploying Agentic AI

Qualifications

Education (or equivalent work experience)

• Undergraduate or master’s degree in computer science, management information systems, data analytics

+5 years of experience in IT (Business Analytics, Project Management, IT Finance)