Cloud FinOps Analyst

Work you'll do

• Create and maintain FinOps dashboards and reports to track cloud costs, identify trends, and communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve Cloud billing and financial reports.
• Analyze cloud usage patterns and trends to identify areas for improvement and potential cost savings.
• Provide inputs to create Agile user stories for product enhancements and operational excellence.
• Provide technical support for custom multi-cloud provisioning platform and troubleshoot issues.
• Create/manage knowledge documents and share lessons learned with team members.
• Serve as technical lead for the FinOps tool.
• Work closely with engineering, operations, and finance teams to align cloud usage with business objectives and budgets.
• Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud technologies and initiatives.
• Encourage collaborative efforts and camaraderie with all team members to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions.
• Ensure efficient functioning of cloud resources and processing functions in accordance with security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Establishing and enforcing cloud cost governance policies, processes, and best practices.
• Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements based on technology enhancements and user requirements/needs.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of FinOps concepts
• 5+ years’ experience with cloud billing for GCP, Azure or AWS IaaS and PaaS services
• Strong analytical skills to analyze large datasets, identify trends, and develop predictive models for future spending.
• Ability to identify and resolve complex issues related to cloud cost management
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Excel, SQL, and business intelligence platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent educational or professional experience and/or qualifications.
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills to earn support of business leaders, technology leaders, colleagues, and vendor representatives
• Must have ability to work in fast paced environment, balance priorities and juggle multiple tasks at once

Preferred

• FinOps practitioner certification
• Cloud certifications
• Experience using an iterative solution delivery, process, and tools such as Agile, Scrum, MS ADO, and/or Jira to develop software
• Experience with REST API architecture and development