Cloud Azure Finops

Cloud Azure Finops

Frisco,United States

Contract

Skills

Azure

Finops

Assist FinOps practitioner bridge business, engineering and finance teams, enabling evidence-based decisions in near-real time to help optimize cloud use and increase business value. Focus on establishing a FinOps culture and enabling stakeholder teams by demonstrating a working knowledge of the Principles and Capabilities of the FinOps Framework, a prescriptive model of actions and best practices. Deep technical expertise in Azure primarily and AWS secondly.

Helping Engineering teams adopting FinOps use cost and resource use as a metric similarly to other performance metrics. Consider the efficient design and use of resources as they architect, design, and build IT systems in the cloud. Responsible for their cloud use, and perform activities like selecting appropriate resource locations, rightsizing (the process of resizing cloud resources to better match the workload requirements), workload management (only running resources when they are needed), removing unused resources, and monitoring for spending anomalies.

Objectives:

Cultural change flag bearer

Create cloud cost management best practices

Create benchmarks for teams to use

Create visibility and transparency to cloud cost

Create or inform cloud budgets and forecasts

Help create and maintain FinOps Strategies

Capabilities:

Maintain tagging strategy

Anomaly Management

Architecting for Cloud

Benchmarking

Budgeting & allocations

Cloud Policy and Governance

Cloud Sustainability

Data ingestion

FinOps Assessment

Workload Optimization

Rate Optimization

Reporting Analytics and Unit Economics

Understanding of Licensing and SaaS

Forecasting & Planning and estimation