FinOps - JD:
Location - Chennai and Hyderabad
Experience - 9 to 14 Years
- Define Governance and Cloud cost optimization framework
- Develop a strong cost management practice in the Cloud for AWS and Azure.
- Streamline the opportunities for cost optimization; Analyse AWS / Azure financial reports and identify opportunities for optimization.
- Optimize the Cloud costs by defining / tracking cost plans, reserved Instances, enterprise saving plans.
- Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure capacity and demand forecasts by establishing the mechanism to track day to day monitoring
- Set up tracking and optimization of cloud capacity & resource mgmt. for all services
- Define cloud cost performance KPIs and track against agreed KPIs on a regular basis.
- Implement cost optimization and governance strategies for continuous cost optimization.
- Help define, implement, maintain and automatically remediate tagging standards for AWS and Azure.
- Drive a positive and close working relationship with cross functional teams
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Experience
- 5+ years of experience with one/more public/private cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
- Experience with capacity forecasting, cloud cost optimization techniques, financial reporting, and workflow management in a large service operations environment. Familiarity with monitoring and reporting tools/APIs.
- Understanding of cloud providers, platforms and configurations and familiarity with workload usage/consumption patterns on cloud.
- Good understanding of billing on cloud platforms (incl. impact of usage patterns on TCO)
- Ability to support agile decision making across multiple cloud services, with short-cycle analytics and problem solving.
- Ability to develop effective reporting schemes/metrics to maintain strong control on usage and billing of cloud services.
- Ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders (across IT, finance, business functions) and proactively identify opportunities for service improvement.
- Demonstrated skills in working across multi-functional teams to bring increased business value through seeing the bigger picture, collaboration and alignment of diverse needs
- Any Cloud Solutions Architect certification preferred
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