FinOps Lead

Job description:

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting the cloud optimization practice and make recommendations on reserved capacity strategy, utilization optimization opportunities, product architectural recommendations to promote cost savings, and discounts for optimization.

• Lead, develop, and implement the processes and capabilities required that ensure costs optimization.

• Collaborate with technology teams to incorporate cost management best practices into cloud platforms via tagging, alerting and configurations that supports financial monitoring of cloud platforms.

• Create and oversee a cloud billing dashboard to track, manage and optimize cloud costs and Reserved Instance purchases.

• Perform consumption analysis to define and execute reserved instances and savings plans.

• Develop opportunities to optimize costs and operational improvement with key infrastructure and service providers.

Need to have:

• Knowledge of cloud design patterns, cloud operations and cloud cost models with experience implementing best practices or suggested improvements.

• Certification Required: Cloud FinOps

• Knowledge of app & data architectures and cloud native patterns for development, etc.

• Experience presenting technical ideas in business-friendly language.

• Experience suggesting competitive and innovative technical decisions, obtaining client buy-in and delivering on commitments.

• Experience re-architecting applications for cloud platforms.

• Experience in driving deep architectural discussions to help customers ensure they are making the most cost-efficient cloud usage choices.

• At least 5+ years of experience contributing to financial business decisions in the workplace.

• DevOps experience and scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash)