Optimization Solutions Architect, OPTICS

About the role

The AWS Industries OPTICS (Optimization Intelligence for Cloud Systems) team has a direct impact on AWS’s largest customers’ FinOps and Cloud Financial Management strategies. The OPTICS team works to proactively optimize our customer’s deployments, identify cost savings, educate stakeholders on cloud best practices & FinOps, and create cost and usage transparency. The OPTICS team is looking for an Optimization Solutions Architect to be hands-on and passionate about working directly with the world’s largest and most complex multinational organizations as they transform their solutions & process to be optimized for the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Dive deep into our customer's cloud footprint to find the unique opportunities for them to save money.
• Build relationships and mechanisms to drive and motivate change related to cloud optimization and efficiency best practices.
• Engage with technology leaders up to the CXO level, in order to drive strategic financial outcomes.
• Simplify cost reporting and visibility, provide insights into cost-efficient cloud operations and guidance on key performance indicators.
• Create, present, and implement guidance on cost optimization reviews.
• Develop strategies to bring business, finance and technology together to drive optimization and efficiency across customer’s cloud footprints.
• Formulate and implement a strategy on how the team can share their learnings with AWS.
• Evangelize cost management with customers, partners, and at various networking opportunities.
• Act as the subject matter expert around building cost aware cultures, cloud financial strategies, cost management mechanisms, and cost-efficient cloud architecture best practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 2+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years developing, negotiating and executing business agreements and working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, and legal and internal stakeholders.