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.

You may be a good fit for our team if:

• 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
• Relevant certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect Certification and FinOps Foundation Certified Practitioner, are a plus.
• 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