RWE Supply & Trading GmbH,
To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent
Your future plans
Would you like to be part of the RWE IT Infrastructure department supporting the delivery of change and technical innovation for the group?
Reporting to the Lead of FinOps Practioner within the Cloud & Datacentre team (C&DC), this role will help build the knowledge, team and policies that will help our organisation understand and control costs in the Cloud. Working closely with colleagues in Cloud Engineering, Cloud Platform, Finance and Commercial you will develop and operate a robust program for Cloud Financial Management that includes but is not limited to tagging frameworks and governance model, budgets, cost optimisation lifecycle, chargebacks and finance integration.
1. Utilising Cloud native and third-party cost management toolsets to drive commercial and cost avoidance optimisations across our Cloud estate based on Azure
2. Provide expert knowledge on cloud cost optimization strategies (e.g. rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, scheduling, processor/instance types)
3. Building, maintaining, and improving custom reports and dashboards to deliver weekly/monthly cost reporting based on Power BI platform
4. Collaborate with Cloud Engineering and Cloud Platform teams to implement cost optimization recommendations and best practices
5. Defining and implementing a new FinOps governance framework and roadmap of FinOps activity to maximise and optimise our Cloud spend
Your powerful skills
6. Strong experience of Cloud cost optimisation and the Cloud FinOps sector
7. A strong understanding of Azure compute technologies
8. Knowledge and understanding of Public Cloud pricing schemes
9. Moderate FinOps meetings with DevOps engineers, documenting collaborative agreed approach and setting the objectives for the evolving dashboard reporting
10. Demonstrable experience of managing and executing commitment-based savings plans for Azure, Cloud cost management tooling and building dashboards
11. Ability to work independently with strong attention to detail and accuracy
12. Clear, effective written and oral communication
13. Cultural awareness and willingness to travel (largely between UK and Germany)
Advantageous, but not a must
14. Ideally certified at foundation level for respective platform (Azure compute technologies)
Benefits you can rely on
At RWE, you will find all the advantages of a large technoogy group. And some merits that are even more crucial: openness and real team work. For we are open to the future and are building on the strenghts of each and every individual. We value his/her work and opinion; we listen, pursue active ideas management and engage in direct exchanges. Rspect, appreciation and mutual trust are the hallmarks of cooperation within the international RWE Team.