TIAA Cloud | Senior Lead FinOps Engineer

Key Responsibilities And Duties

• Operate and manage various Cloud financial management tools (Including Apptio Cloudability and native cloud provider tools) to provide financial transparency across the organization and make data driven decisions.
• Deliver new and iterative features to the Cloud FinOps reporting and data platform.
• Leverage automation and scripting to democratize and deliver meaningful alerts, insights, anomalies, workflow, and other tools to be leveraged by multiple stakeholder personas to manage and optimize their cloud spend.
• Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer will develop solutions and strategies to optimize cloud usage and refactor existing technology toward effective ways to leverage Cloud-native services.
• Engineer and implement patterns to achieve Cloud elasticity of enterprise application.
• Identify ways to enhance forecasting, chargeback and modeling of cloud spend, including the delineation between cost to produce (non-production) and cost to serve (production) for tracking cloud costs back to business benefits.
• Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer will communicate and collaborate between business, technology, and finance teams.
• Promote a cost-conscious culture and cloud engineering best practices across the IT organization.
• Support stakeholders in understanding their forecasted cloud spend based on their strategic plans.
• Provide guidance to developers and application owners on best practices for reducing costs and optimizing consumption of cloud services.
• Establish Cloud Financial KPIs in alignment with CPM goals and objectives. Create operational metrics to demonstrate cloud usage.
• Lead and facilitate regular cloud financial management calls.
• Use Agile methodology for planning and execution.
• Produce insightful cloud dashboards and reports that can be shared with across the firm.
• Provide summaries and detailed usage statistics for resources across public clouds, offering actionable intelligence to right-size and scale services efficiently to realize savings.
• Support annual budget and forecast process for enterprise-wide cloud spend.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Required

• Proven experience in Cloud Cost Management with experience in some 3rd party cloud cost management tools
• 2-4+ years of enterprise experience in either AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure
• Python or similar automation/scripting languages knowledge
• High proficiency with MS Excel and PowerPoint

Preferred

• Proven experience in Cloud Cost Management with experience in some 3rd party cloud cost management tools.
• 5 years of enterprise experience in either AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure.
• Python or similar automation/scripting languages knowledge.
• High proficiency with MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Public Cloud Service Provider certifications is desirable.
• Cloud FinOps certifications.
• 5 years of experience as a Cloud FinOps analyst with deep knowledge of cost and usage data using the FinOps/Cloud spend optimization discipline.
• 5 years of enterprise experience in either Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform or other public cloud.
• Python or similar automation/scripting languages knowledge.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, IT, Accounting or Economics. MBA a plus.
• Familiarity with cost structure of cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google.
• Understanding of applications development environments, database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints.
• Experience with AWS tagging benefits and limitations.
• Analytical and quantitative skills with hands-on experience on cloud demand forecasting, cost optimization, capacity planning, cloud utilization and spend modeling and cost savings strategy development.
• Excellent organization, time management, and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Ability to work independently with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Self-starter who can also work with a team to deliver superior customer service.
• Experience working in an agile environment / SDLC.
• The ideal candidate will be an effective communicator, collaborative team player and analytical thinker.

Work Experience

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work