FinOps Practitioner SME

Role Overview: As a FinOps Practitioner with 10 to 14 years of experience, you will play a crucial role in managing the cost visibility of public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. Your primary responsibility will be to monitor cloud spend, create budget alerts, review and recommend FinOps tools, facilitate their implementation, and conduct periodic reports to optimize resource usage. Additionally, you will be responsible for managing cloud commitments, identifying unused resources, optimizing existing resources, and defining the FinOps framework and roadmap. You will act as a bridge between Finance, Product Owners, and Cloud Engineers, advocating FinOps principles to induce a FinOps culture within stakeholders. Key Responsibilities: - Manage cost visibility of public cloud platform for AWS/Azure/GCP - Monitor cloud spend and create budget alerts - Review and recommend the FinOps tool - Facilitate the implementation of FinOps tool - Conduct periodic reports and regular reviews of cloud spend with Google Cloud Billing Console and other FinOps tools - Manage cloud commitments (CUD, Saving Plans, RI) and suggest the use of Preemptible or Spot instances where 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, and Cloud Engineers - Advocate FinOps principles in day-to-day operations and induce a FinOps culture within the stakeholders Qualifications Required: - Bachelor's degree holder in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other relevant fields - At least 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, and other AWS/Azure/GCP services - Good understanding of cost drivers for cloud resources - Capable of consolidating data and delivering an aggregate view/report - Understanding of variable cost models for cloud resources - Possess moderate verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with technical and non-technical 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,