Digital Factory | FinOps Officer

We are looking for a cloud savvy person, able to quickly understand various architectures and business stakes, and able to animate a distributed community.

Your work will have very concrete outcomes and observable value.

You will:

• Monitor the cloud expenses on a daily basis using available tools (AWS Cost Explorer, Cudos, Splunk, custom reports, Datadog) and follow up the global budget
• Perform common activities, such as reservations
• Interact on a daily basis with corporate and local teams on cost and architecture optimizations
• Animate the global Cloud & FinOps community, and keep pushing the FinOps duties to regions/BUs
• Interact with the cloud suppliers Technical Account Managers and Solutions Architects about technical improvements, roadmap, tickets escalation, ….
• Maintain custom scripts used for FinOps (AWS Lambda)
• Help carrying out the cloud roadmap (transverse projects follow-up, process improvement, PoC, …)
• Extend the FinOps processes to GCP and various SaaS applications
• Keep improving our procedures / documentations / KB
• Participate in team’s tech watch effort

KPIs:

• Yearly cloud savings
• Level of empowerment and autonomy of regions/BUs
• Effectiveness of procedures and processes (improved time to market)
• Internal customer satisfaction

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Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
• 3+ years of experience with cloud environments and modern tooling
• Experience in software programming (especially Python, Javascript, service-oriented architectures, event-driven architectures, AWS services and framework)

Technical & FinOps skills

• Perfect knowledge of all AWS discount mechanisms and billing process
• Familiar with financial wording and concepts (YTD, YoY, Forex, amortization, …)
• Technical skills
• Good understanding of all AWS services (certification required)
• Familiar with the AWS Console / API / SDK
• Ability to drill into the details of a technical architecture, and challenge the design
• Technical background (operations and/or software development)
• Familiar with modern tooling (Google Workspace, GitLab, CI/CD, Terraform, …)
• Ability to maintain scripting using AWS serverless components

Soft skills

• Fluent English and French
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, in a multicultural environment
• Ability to negotiate and educate
• Automation-focused and efficient mindset