Job Title: FinOps Engineer
Location: Charlotte NC (Day 1 Onsite)
Type: Contract
Description:
About this role:
- Experienced FinOps Engineer/FinOps Practitioner to partner with Product Owners Application Teams Cloud Architects Finance Team Business & Technology leaders to drive optimization and support adoption of FinOps. This role will focus on implementing cost visibility and cost optimization capabilities to ensure ongoing cost optimization and governance. This person will use the FinOps Framework to provide clear visibility into cloud costs and drive initiatives that promote cost efficiency and optimization.
Job Responsibilities Include:
- Drive cloud optimization and empower app teams to realize business value.
- Discover costsaving and optimization opportunities and actively collaborate with the app teams to support execution.
- Implement strategies like rightsizing autoscaling storage optimization cost anomalies etc.
- Manage cloud costs effectively and provide stakeholders with the information to make valuedriven decisions.
- Ensure that cost management practices are wellunderstood and implemented.
- Use Cloudability to create and provide continuous cost transparency to app owners.
- Encourage crossfunctional collaboration to implement costeffective architectural patterns review resource usage patterns and iterate on optimization strategies.
- Collaborate with finance technology and business teams to mature FinOps governance processes including embedding FinOps functions into existing governance and architectural review processes.
- Automate cloud cost management processes using scripting and other methodologies.
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 23 years of experience in cost management in a GCP environment.
- 23 years of solid experience with AI services (GCP and Azure)
- Minimum 23 years of Indepth knowledge of cloud services architecture and cost mechanics (compute containers databases serverless storage licensing amortizations etc.)
Preferred Skills:
- Terraform experience for managing cloud infrastructure and executing optimization changes.
- Experience with reservation strategies and committed use discounts.
- Knowledge of Observability Cloud infrastructure Networking Architecture Containers and Microservices
- Knowledge and practical experience with SQL Python
- Knowledge of basic Finance & Accounting principles (budgeting chargeback accruals etc.)
- Effective communicator both orally and in writing with an executive presence
- Demonstrate ability to ask wellcrafted questions and present ideas in a clear and compelling manner.
- Demonstrate strong attention to detail problemsolving skills strategic thinking and strong business acumen.
- Demonstrate ability to work in an agile work environment with qualities such as collaborative mindset adaptability to change and a proactive problemsolving approach.
- Experience with onprem or cloud data and AI/ML technologies and solution.
- Passion for Cloud FinOps and maximizing Cloud value for end users.
- Certified FinOps Practitioner or Certified FinOps Engineer.