Senior Cloud FinOps Engineering

What will your journey at FLYR look like: (Responsibilities)

• • Identify and project manage cloud optimization initiatives across the Engineering organization.
  • Implement automated cloud spend reports for leadership and Engineering to measure optimization efficiencies and operational excellence.
  • Prioritize cloud optimization opportunities and communicate strategy against the company engineering roadmap.
  • Report successful company initiatives and tie that back to monetary amounts in savings.
  • Maintain responsibility for ensuring that our costs are well understood,  identifying and driving infrastructure optimization activities to ensure we make the most out of our investments,  and forecasting costs.
  • Work closely with leadership to implement the cloud costs support systems needed for a continuously growing company.
  • Develop insightful views into cost and usage data that enable executors to understand spending.
  • Create Engineering awareness and drive behavior change to make high-cost and efficiency improvements across the organization.
  • Use software tools to provide data visualization,  and gather feedback from respective engineering teams.
  • Be a point of contact for our cloud provider and will maintain current knowledge of relevant cloud optimization, regulations, policies, and procedures.

What you should pack for this trip: (Qualifications)

• • Experience working in a related discipline such as systems engineering,  technical management,  financial analysis,  etc.
  • Proven experience in having the responsibility of optimizing the costs of a growing engineering organization
  • Passion for driving cost-saving strategies & optimization
  • Proficiency in modern serverless and cloud-native stacks including BigQuery/Redshift,  Google Cloud Function/AWS Lambda, Dataflow, Google Kubernetes Engine GKE (or AWS EKS), etc.
  • Strong background and understanding of SaaS,  PaaS, and IaaS (ideally GCP but open to AWS & Azure)
  • Have an engineering background with the ability to understand architecture
  • Advanced analytical skills and proficiency in SQL are required
  • Ability to effectively facilitate and take the lead in meetings

In-flight Amenities: (Perks & Benefits)

• • • Equity in Series C startup with high growth potential
    • Comprehensive healthcare plans (Choice of PPO & HMO available)
    • Generous PTO policy and flexible working arrangements
    • 401K with company match
    • Free Breakfast/Lunch (in office)
    • Uber Eats – $30 Daily while in the office, and $30/Monthly (Hybrid Employees)
    • 100% Paid Parental Leave for 12 Weeks
    • $300 Home office set-up stipend (one time)

• • Starting minimum: $119,000
  • Role cap: $225,000