Cloud Finops Specialist

3 weeks ago


Midrand, South Africa Nexio Full time

**ROLE REQUIREMENT** Key Responsibilities and outcomes**
- **
Perform FinOps analytics to enhance decision making processes and improving products and services around business cases, budgets, spend, cost savings and more.**
- Producing real-time data to predict usage patterns, to use in making decisions for optimizing and being able to tell the data stories in the reporting to all levels of management and support.
- Investigate and understand the basis for every line item in the cloud infrastructure invoices and usage data
- Finding anomalies in usage patterns and giving quick feedback to course correct.
- Provide customised reporting and dashboards to internal stakeholders to provide a view on capacity trends, plans and actual costs vs budget and the drivers of the spend and peaks in usage.
- Ensure capacity / performance / availability requirements are optimised and cost justified
- Perform daily data analysis of our Cloud consumption across all Hyperscalers and all cloud technologies
- Identify Cost Optimisation Opportunities and inform the business and technical owners. Including but not limited to Rightsizing, Reservations, Savings Plans, Wastage Removal, technology upgrades.
- Use your understanding of public cloud cost and usage reports to identify opportunities to reduce spend.
- Work with CSP experts to further optimize cloud spend.
- Work with other FinOps/Finance teams to provide cost forecasting across the Cloud estate considering proposed/planned changes, new workloads planned to be cloud hosted in the future and comparing Cloud costs across Hyperscalers.
- Act as a conduit between finance and technical teams so an understanding of common financial terms is essential.
- Collaborate with the Procurement (SCM) team and the Cloud Product owner to report on enterprise level commitments vs consumption and future consumption
- Support software asset management teams and procurement to help identify software renewals or new software procurement that could use a cloud-based Market Place to achieve a lower price point and assist burn down enterprise level commitments.
- Provide technical advisory services to stakeholders on CCoE processes, roadmap and cloud requirements
- Contribute to the cloud education program that includes user training, events, knowledge sharing, and capability building across the enterprise
- Continuous alignment with the Product Owner, Engineering and Operations functions with the cyclical development of an iterative cloud road map to plan for ongoing changes to services\platforms as technologies emerge and new features are requested by users
- Keeps up to date with industry trends and can spot and translate how to use the latest services to improve cost / performance for the business stakeholders.
- Supports analytical, experimental, investigative and other fact-finding work in support of cost management.
- Create and maintaining internal documentation on FinOps and cost optimization processes

**TECHNICAL / PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES**
- Experience with Public Cloud cost management and tools like AWS Cost explorer.
- Mathematical skills or a background in finance.
- A love of data and driving business outcomes with it.
- Experience creating analytical and financial models for data-driven decisions
- Experience building BI dashboards
- Experience Linux OS.
- High level of IT knowledge and experience.

**QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE**
- Matric (required)
- Tertiary qualification in IT technical field (required)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders (Course)
- FinOps Certified Professional

**LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS
- Equip the team by way of knowledge sharing.
- Encourage collaboration.
- Big Picture Solution Realisation
- Holistic Organisational Understanding


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