Key Skills: Golang, Cloud.
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.
Education: B.Tech M.Tech (Dual), B.E., B.Tech