Cloud Governance and Optimization Senior Manager – Salesforce

Microsoft Azure) for internal software engineering teams. It serves as a connection point between business units, finance, accounting, technical sourcing and cloud service providers. This role is hybrid and meets in the office 3 days a week.
Your Impact:

• As a subject matter expert, provide insights into structure of cloud cost elements, analysis of trends and factors influencing cloud spend.
• Increase cost savings through the identification and adoption of cost saving practices.
• Establish governing frameworks around usage and spend optimization.
• Help business units to establish accurate public cloud cost management processes.
• Understand their product roadmap, spend patterns and cloud infrastructure utilization
• Overview, monitor and manage reservations and savings plans commitments
• Identify underutilized resources and work with engineering teams to improve cost efficiency
• Build and support analytical solutions related to the cloud spend. Develop and maintain reports, dashboards and related configuration data
• Create plans and forecasts related to the resource usage and cloud spend
• Leverage Cloud Cost Management platform for cost analytics.
• Work with Accounting and Finance to track public cloud spend.
• Lead M&A cloud integration into Salesforce cloud ecosystem
• Provide SME viewpoint on AI related cost management
• Provide monthly cost allocation reports to business owners, Finance and Accounting
• Complete SOX controls applicable to the public cloud spend
• Work cross-functionally and advise on service optimization, efficiencies and cost saving opportunities related to cloud services.
• Partner with key collaborators (i.e., Finance, R&D Leaders, Engineering, etc.) to align on spend variance analysis and forecasting.
• Maintain relationship with Cloud Service Providers
• Design, build, and maintain processes to turn source data into actionable information
• Develop technical and functional documentation related to solutions and processes built by the team.

Required Qualifications:

• Practical knowledge of AWS, GCP and Azure public cloud architecture (navigating resources, check configuration, perform maintenance and configuration tasks, investigate anomalies)

• Experience with cloud management tools
• Excellent mathematical and analytical skills, experience with working with large datasets.
• Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau
• Practical knowledge of SQL. Hands-on experience crafting and handling SQL data sets for analytical purposes
• Strong communication skills; ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical professionals up to the senior/executive level
• Proven ability to influence across varying levels of an organization in a fast-paced work environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Architect/Administrator experience with multiple clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• FinOps certification or familiarity with the framework
• Experience automating reports and reporting systems, including data gathering, aggregation, and extrapolating forecast models.
• Experience with CloudHealth cost management platform
• Understanding of software procurement/sourcing processes in a large company (contracts, agreements, purchase orders, invoices).
• Experience and Education Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical subject area, and a minimum of 6 years related experience

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