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Roles & Responsibilities: Key Objectives: FinOps Leadership: Drive internal FinOps capabilities and culture, fostering a cost-conscious engineering environment. Data-Driven Decision Making: Democratize cost and usage data to inform engineering decisions, promoting transparency and accountability. Cloud Efficiency: Strategically drive infrastructure efficiency improvements, developing dashboards to analyze costs and unit economics. Metrics & Reporting: Develop critical success metrics and reports to track spending and usage trends, enabling better decision-making. Key Responsibilities: Design and deliver elegant solutions that improve FinOps capabilities and foster a FinOps engineering culture. Create dashboards and analytics to track cloud spend, identifying opportunities for optimization and cost savings. Collaborate with Engineering teams to develop product architecture that considers cost drivers and efficiency gains. Develop financial and usage dashboards, working with finance teams on budget forecasting and tagging. Establish policies, controls, and best practices to govern cloud spending across the organization. Additional Tasks: Develop solutions and frameworks for cost-effective testing, deployment, and monitoring of services. Work with engineering teams to identify opportunities for infrastructure efficiency improvements. Monitor cloud consumption at the account level, detecting anomalies and unplanned spikes. Build technical skills and relationships within a team of engineers and SREs. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Learn, teach, and collaborate cross-functionally to promote shared understanding of FinOps principles and best practices. Experience Requirement: 9+years of experience in professional backend software development in cloud environments, with proficiency in major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their associated services, pricing models, and management tools. Proficiency in Golang, Python or any other programming language is necessary. FinOps Experience: Proven track record of working with Cost Management Solutions such as AWS CUDOS, CloudZero, etc. and developing effective FinOps practices to optimize cloud spend. Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI, etc...) is highly desirable. Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub, and configuration management tools such as Ansible is preferred. Team player with effective interpersonal skills. Manage relationships with key partners across different functions. Able to collaborate with remote teams effectively. Worked with SaaS or another type of managed software offerings.
