FinOps Practitioner SME

Role Overview: As a FinOps Practitioner with 10 to 14 years of experience, you will play a critical role in managing the cost visibility of the public cloud platform for AWS/AZURE/GCP. With a cloud-first strategy, you will be responsible for optimizing resource usage, creating budget alerts, recommending and implementing FinOps tools, conducting regular cloud spend reviews, and identifying opportunities for cost optimization. Additionally, you will define the FinOps framework and roadmap, support budgeting forecast, and act as a bridge between Finance, Product Owners, and Cloud Engineers to advocate FinOps principles in day-to-day operations. Key Responsibilities: - 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 Qualifications Required: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other relevant fields - 5+ years of experience on public cloud platforms with 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 - 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 (Note: Additional details of the company were not provided in the job description.),