Cloud FinOps Engineer

Job Description

• Participate in the design, deployment, and support of cost-efficient AWS and Azure solutions
• Research cloud cost abnormalities and provide insights into its financial impact and solutions for supporting needed changes for correction
• Identify areas of high influence that can be implemented centrally to increase the overall efficiency of our public cloud spend
• Provide summaries and detailed usage statistics for resources across public clouds, offering actionable intelligence to right-size and scale services efficiently
• Work with lines of business to implement savings opportunities within their cloud footprints and applications
• Identify and facilitate opportunities to optimize, reduce cost and plans to realize the savings
• Build and maintain cloud usage visibility to proactively optimize workloads
• Provide early intervention, management and advice to consumers of the cloud services
• Work closely with financial teams on budget, forecast and expense reporting
• Create operational metrics to demonstrate costs and usage and assist with continuous tracking
• Lead regular cadence calls providing expert advice and consulting on cloud financial management activities
• Configure and manage cloud cost optimization tools
• Create and maintain internal documentation on FinOps and cost optimization processes and customer environments

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience deploying and supporting cloud native solutions
• Solid understanding of AWS and Azure solutions and services
• Experience planning and migrating traditional on-prem architectures to public cloud
• Cloud FinOps knowledge to include deep knowledge of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, cost & usage data, and basic finance and accounting knowledge
• Experience working with Cloud FinOps tools, experience with CloudHealth a plus
• Familiarity with cost structure of AWS and Azure and products and services
• Strong ability to analyze and interpret data and provide insights
• Strong program management skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills, and experience presenting formally or informally

Additional InformationAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located. **insightsoftware About Us: Hear From Our Team – InsightSoftware (wistia.com)