Responsibilities

Develop and implement FinOps capabilities, such as cost tagging, budgeting, and forecasting.

Develop and execution of ongoing reporting/dashboarding of costs for applications living in our hybrid multi-cloud environments to enable the total cost of ownership analysis, including cloud hosting costs, software license, and maintenance, as well as support labor costs.

Provide input into technical and business decisions with respect to cost implications

Measure the status of FinOps capabilities and make recommendations for improvement

Communicate the benefits of FinOps to the organization and build a culture of cost optimization

Perform financial forecasting for cloud services and potential savings; provide customer visibility to current costs across various areas (cloud hosting, labor, software), and support management of project and operational budgets if required

Stay up-to-date on FinOps best practices and trends

Investigating cost anomalies

Identifying cloud waste and potential savings opportunities

Helping teams to right-size various resources and estimate costs for potential projects

Requirements

• 2+ years of FinOps/cloud optimization/cloud cost management experience

• FinOps certified preferred

• Strong understanding of cloud pricing models and cost optimization techniques (AWS is a must; others are good to have) with experience managing committed usage discounts (e.g., Saving Plans, Reserved Instances, etc.)

• Experience with cloud cost management tools (we use Finout)

• Data Analysis and Business Intelligence background and practical experience (e.g. Microsoft Excel advanced usage or SQL/Athena experience) is a plus

• Cloud Custodian experience is a plus

• Experience automating querying of Cost and related REST APIs a plus

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team