Cloud FinOps Senior Engineer

Our FinOps team are a group of Cloud and Finance specialists who collaborate with the business to advise, optimise, and operate cloud finance. As the company’s use of public cloud has grown so has our team to match business requirements to optimise costs, manage cloud consumption and engineering change.

Main Responsibilities

The Cloud FinOps Engineer is responsible for working with our business key collaborators, partners and customers to enable an efficient use of Cloud during the application lifecycle.

• Automate the configuration and management of Cloud Financial Management tooling via APIs
• Configure pipelines that run daily/nightly/weekly for automatic updates of these configurations and automatic reports generation.
• Work with the platform teams to ensure the Cost Management toolsets and billing consoles are configured accurately using APIs wherever possible.
• Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to encourage them to better use their resources, to highlight improvements to cost and performance
• Keep up to date with industry trends so that business collaborators and customers can be advised how to use the latest services to improve cost/performance ratios.
• Ensure that the tagging standards are respected, new guidelines implemented and review governance framework on a regular basis.
• Collaborate with other team members to understand and break down sophisticated requests using diagramming tools and team breakout sessions.
• Understand the needs of our internal customers: finance team, procurement team, business application team and propose new solutions to their issues.
• Look for opportunities to improve data accuracy by replacing “click-ops” using automation wherever possible.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience working with REST APIs and crafting automation based on REST APIs;
• Experience with object oriented programming in at least one language: Python preferred;
• Have at least 5+ years experience in a large-scale organisation in a similar role.
• Experience with bash scripting or PowerShell scripting;
• Have excellent debugging skills and
• Have a proactive and positive attitude and be open to adapt to the changes and new challenges;
• Be able to understand the business requirements and translate them into PoCs/new features that can be presented as demos to our collaborators, partners and customers;
• Presentation skills required;
• Fluent English language verbal and written communication skills are required;

Bonus

• Ideally, the candidate would have working experience with at least one public cloud provider or a certification: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Ideally, the candidate will have good knowledge of roles and permissions at cloud level, having experience with RBAC management and least privileged access.
• Holds a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Ideally the candidate should have working experience with a public Cloud Financial Cost Management product and what it means to reach “run” maturity level.
• Understand common financial terms, key drivers, and concepts that Technology, Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable and Receivable teams use day-to-day is important;
• Experience with IaC using Terraform or other similar tool.
• Our candidate is familiar with the FinOps Foundation framework and has an understanding of what reaching maturity means.