FinOps Tooling Engineer, AVP

• The DB Cloud FinOps function drives financial accountability of cloud consumption, providing distributed teams with insights into their consumption, spend and optimisation / control options to ensure cloud usage is managed efficiently.
• We are looking for a meticulous and proactive FinOps Tooling Engineer to support the FinOps tooling & optimization capability. We are seeking an individual who has a real passion for technology with a strong technical background with Business Intelligence tools & data analysis. You should also have a track record of excellent problem-solving skills.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain FinOps dashboards and reports in Looker, Cloudability and other Business Intelligence tools to provide clear insights into cloud spend, usage and optimization opportunities
• E2E management of the FinOps Business Intelligence Platform including user access, data connections and security settings.
• Design and implement data models that enable efficient, scalable analytics in Looker and related platforms
• Automate and improve the reporting process to support forecasting and budgeting
• Develop models to support cost allocation and reallocation across consuming tenants, ensuring accurate chargeback/showback
• Analysis of GCP billing data, usage data from Asset Inventory and Monitoring utilization data to assess application teams GCP consumption, identify wasteful spend and provide actionable insights to optimize spend
• Leverage APIs and ETL process to ingest and transform cloud cost and usage into BI tools
• Manage code changes 'via Github workflows' and version control.

Your skills and experience

• Minimum 3 years' experience in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
• Experience with Cloudability or other cloud cost management tools for building dashboards & data models.
• Experience configuring FinOps Tooling (e.g. Cloudability) programmatically by writing and posting JSON/XML to APIs.
• Proficiency in SQL and data transformation tools, proficiency in python
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, Azure etc.
• Experience with cloud usage data, billing files, and tagging strategies