Cloud Finops Analyst

5 months ago


Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

**Purpose of the Job**:
Monitor cloud spend day to day and prepare weekly & monthly reports for review of Cloud spend.
Collate, analyse, and prioritize cloud optimization recommendations and calculate potential savings
Provide expert knowledge of cloud cost optimization strategies (e.g., rightsizing, power scheduling)
Ensuring optimization recommendations go through the appropriate governance process and get actioned
Collaborate with Engineering teams to implement cost optimization recommendations and best practices

**Job Objectives**:
Create Cloud cost optimization framework and Governance mechanism.
Establish strong cost management practice in the Public Cloud for AWS and Azure.
Identify opportunities for cost optimization; Analyze AWS / Azure financial reports and identify opportunities for optimization.
Optimize Cloud costs by defining / tracking cost plans, reserved Instances, enterprise saving plans.
Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure capacity and demand forecasts - incl. day to day monitoring and tracking 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 Shoprite’s IT teams and select collaborators and outsourcing partners. Pro-actively communicate and engage with the IT and Business communities as a visible ambassador of IT and digital
You are an agile team member and actively participate in a learning culture.

**Qualifications**:
Grade 12 (Matric) with relevant IT certification
Accounting Degree or Diploma
Certification in Azure, GCP or AWS
FinOps Certified Practitioner

**Experience**:
Experience with one/more public/private cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience with capacity forecasting, cloud cost optimization techniques, financial reporting, and workflow management in a large service operations environment
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?

**Knowledge and Skills**:
Accurate understanding of cloud technologies and the comparison of technologies across cloud platforms
Attention to details, especially on the monthly financial reporting
Be able to engage with business and technology users alike, especially on explaining cost analysis and system improvements
Stay updated on new technologies to improve cost effectiveness of cloud systems

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