Consultant

Job Description for FinOps Practitioner

Location - Noida and Hyderabad.

AWS/AZURE/GCP

skills

• Manage cost visibility of public cloud platform for AWS/AZURE/GCP
• Monitor cloud spend and create budget alerts
• Review & recommend the FinOps tool
• Facilitate the implementation of FinOps tool
• Conduct periodic reports and regular reviews of cloud spend with Google Cloud Billing Console & with other FinOps tool
• Manage cloud commitments (CUD, Saving Plans, RI) & suggest use of Preemptible or Spot instances, wherever suitable
• Identify unused resources and schedule decommissioning
• Optimize existing resources by rightsizing instances
• Optimize architecture by migrating to scalable resources
• Define the FinOps framework and roadmap
• Support Finance for budgeting forecast and Enterprise agreements with providers
• Become the bridge between Finance, Product Owners & Cloud Engineers
• Advocate FinOps principles in day-to-day operations & induce FinOps culture within the stakeholders

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree holder in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant fields
• At least 5 years of experience on public cloud platforms and at least 2 years of exposure to AWS/AZURE/GCP billing management
• FinOps Certified Practitioner is a must.
• Associate or Professional level certified candidate in AWS/AZURE/GCP is a plus.
• Good understanding of AWS/AZURE/GCP Billing methodology, Organization & Project structure
• Good understanding of instance types, storage types & of other AWS/AZURE/GCP services
• Good understanding of cost drivers for cloud resources
• Capable to consolidate data and deliver aggregate view/report
• Understanding of variable cost models for cloud resources
• Possess moderate verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with technical and nontechnical personnel at various levels in the organization and with vendors
• Good understanding of MS excel, PowerPoint and any other presentation application.
• Understanding of PowerBI reports.