Cloud FinOps Engineer

Company: Wabtec Corporation Published: 21st March 2023 Closing Date: 30th April 2023

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Summary:It’s not just about your career or your job title. It’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to do things that haven’t been done to make your life and someone else’s life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale. This position will be working hands-on within the cloud technical domain. You will work within a multi-cloud infrastructure environment on highly complex projects, as a key member of the Platform team across the organization.Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyze cloud spend trends, identify opportunities for savings, and offer advisory services with specific cost optimization recommendations
• Track key metrics and performance indicators to evaluate cost allocations and budgeting
• Design and implement automated capabilities to track cost trends, anomalies, and waste
• Partner with distributed teams and influence strategy, tactics, and execution of cloud usage
• Complete analysis of reservation purchases for AWS services such as EC2 and RDS
• Conduct architectural reviews to ensure cost optimization is incorporated into designs
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in AWS and cloud computing
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or “STEM” majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or 3+ years of AWS enterprise build experience
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in infrastructure architecture or relevant discipline
• Direct experience with administration, building, and/or supporting AWS

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Deep understanding of cloud-based services usage and pricing; AWS and/or Azure
• Enterprise-scale experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management
• Broad hands-on experience across AWS services.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), version control systems (Git), and CICD pipelines (GitLab) for full lifecycle management of AWS infrastructure & guardrails.
• Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud
• Challenges conventional thinking and traditional ways of operating and invites stakeholders to identify issues and opportunities

Physical Demands:

• Requires daily interaction with Team members on meeting calls or in person
• Requires sitting or standing in cubical and meeting rooms
• Employee is regularly required to look at computer screen

Work Environment:

• The employee will normally work in a temperature-controlled office environment, with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment. Any disagreeable conditions are generally absent

Relocation Assistance not provided