FinOps (Cloud Cost Management)

The client is deploying newly developed applications and migrating selected existing applications to the public cloud. The county is currently utilizing Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to host PaaS/IaaS (Platform- as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service) solutions. The client has established a FinOps (Cloud Cost Management) group to monitor, advise, and report on cloud costs. This is to ensure cost effective use of cloud resources. The FinOps group is part of the Finance group within the IT department.
The FinOps group has and is developing and implementing standards, guidelines, and processes for implementation of industry accepted FinOps principles. The county desires to contract for the development of software to automate selected FinOps manual operational functions. These functions include:
a) a cloud workload inventory and
b) deployment and maintenance of cloud workload duty schedules.

Required Skills:
Minimum of five years’ experience as a full stack developer for Microsoft Azure-based applications using modern application techniques.
Azure Functions / PowerShell /C# /.NET 6
Creating and maintaining of data and their structures in Cosmos DB
Azure Storage, GitHub and/or Azure DevOps for source code repositories and CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with Azure and OCI APIs
Minimum of two years working in an agile software development environment
Excellent writing and verbal English communication skills.