Cloud FinOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Proactively partner/collaborate with technology and business professionals at various levels within the organization to optimize cloud spend.
• Recommend savings opportunities related to cloud commitment purchases (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Committed/Sustained use) and track utilization of these commitments.
• Analyze resource usage and conduct concerted effort to eliminate unused cloud services / zombie instances and simplify process; implement rigorous processes to prevent unused services in the future.
• Partake in creating, maturing, and governing cost optimization policies and best practices.
• Familiarize yourself with usage trends and product roadmaps to optimize consumption rates and forecast cloud spend.
• Create awareness and impact change in cloud infrastructure costs.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and growth mindset, be enthusiastic about learning new technologies, and apply the gained knowledge to address problems.
• Demonstrate a collaborative, team-focused approach.
• Develop customer-level view of consumption data and ensure reporting is simple and widely available to all stakeholders in real-time.
• Develop processes to automate or continuously review RIs.
• Create and oversee the process for requesting, evaluating, and deciding on new SaaS implementations.

Qualifications:

• Prior experience optimizing cost and/or architecting SaaS based cloud operations.
• Azure and/or AWS cloud cost levers knowledge.
• Experience with building partnerships with cross-functional teams to drive results in the form of data insights.
• Experience in cloud capacity management and developing strategy that uses automation to maximize resource utilization and minimize cost
• Passion for identifying opportunities and executing cost optimization initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a finance or an engineering field (e.g. Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Statistics)
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience working in a cloud engineering role with a cost optimization or architecture focus

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