Senior Cloud FinOps Analyst

As a Senior Cloud FinOps Analyst you are responsible for collecting and analyzing financial information related to the organization’s cloud expenses, seeking ways to improve the accuracy of budgets and forecasts, and saving the cost of assigned departments and projects. You will work as part of a team to implement and maintain FinOps practices and methodologies, with a focus on analyzing cloud usage and spending data to identify areas for cost optimization.

In addition, you are responsible for overseeing the planning and implementation of cloud strategies for services within our various cloud environments, including guidance on deployment best practices, governance, and cost-management policies.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with FinOps and Engineering to track and monitor cost optimization initiatives, ensuring key initiative assumptions are accurate, and applicable infrastructure efficiencies are incorporated into the forecast.
• Monitor ongoing cloud expenses and identify cost-saving opportunities, such as unused or underutilized resources in AWS console.
• Become a member of a highly-collaborative engineering team offering a unique blend of engineering solutions.
• Analyze cloud data to identify cost optimization and usage opportunities and create specific recommendations; review those recommendations with clients.
• Monitor and report on cloud usage against budget and forecast, explore trends in cloud spend.
• Create reports, dashboards and alerts to track spending and usage trends and the potential impact of cost optimizations.
• Closely partner with Engineering teams to understand Cloud business processes and cost drivers.
• Where needed, assist in implementing, maintaining and governing the FinOps service.
• Work with the technical teams (both internal and client) to ensure proper tagging and allocation of cloud resources for accurate cost tracking and reporting (both initially and ongoing).

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years in managing Cloud environments, budgets, forecasts and implementing financial controls.
• Experience with FinOps including cloud cost and financial model forecasting and cloud cost optimization strategies.
• Deep understanding of AWS capabilities and integration with database platforms in the AWS marketplace.
• Experience working with relational/NoSQL databases.
• Ability to query, analyze and summarize data efficiently and accurately.
• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations to leaders.