FinOps Technical Analyst

About the job

Service Design

• Define / revise FinOps Strategy and Standards
• FinOps Monitoring setup
• FinOps Reporting & Dashboarding design
• FinOps Tool Selection Criteria design
• Review FinOps tools in market
• Participate in Industry FinOps forums
• Design/ review Rightsizing parameters and thresholds

Service Build

• Setup FinOps Tooling and manage its evolutions (Cloudability / future evolutions)
• Setup CSP data connections & data loading scripts
• Setup FinOps backend schema for data loading, ETL, reporting
• Setup business rules for FinOps in tooling (rightsizing rules, thresholds, other parameters)
• Setup business views and Business Dimensions for FinOps
• Build reports and dashboards
• Setup users’ permissions and authorizations

Service Operations

• A. Optimizations
• Participate with account and service owners on FinOps centric design/ build of applications
• Generate Optimization Advisories pertaining to : Rightsizing, Termination, Scheduling
• Discuss / Communicate with affected accounts on these advisories
• Change Management for implementation of advisories; get AIMS Engineering or accounts team to implement advisories
• Review optimization actions & issues
• Incident & Problem management in FinOps context

B. Savings Management

• Interact with CSP on issues pertaining to SP/ RI implementations, savings calculation issues

C. Budget / Forecasting and actuals tracking

• Build budget/ forecast in tool
• Communicate with Digital Unit leadership on budgets setup
• Tracking of variance control actions and reporting on the same

D. FinOps Tool Management

• Monitor data quality of FinOps Platform
• Fix any data issues in the tool
• Raise & manage service requests raised for FinOps tool vendor
• Review FinOps reports & dashboards and fix any issues reported
• Review and fix user access issues
• Manage FinOps tool API access requests and setup access
• Communicate about FinOps features to application owners and service Owners

F. Tagging Management

• Define mandatory and optional tags
• Monitor tag data quality
• Get tagging quality issues fixed by service owners

Service Governance

• Build monthly reports/dashboard related to FinOps achievements
• Design Review for FinOps for Top accounts
• FinOps governance with service owners
• Contributions to Cloud Optimization PODs
• FinOps vendor governance
• Governance with engineering & AIMS.Finops teams