Permanent AWS Fin Ops SME
£50-55k per annum
· Collaborate with architects and clients to establish cloud economics tools and platforms based on Federal and Industry Cloud(specifically AWS) FinOps best practices.
· Develop agency and program specific framework for FinOps principals, personas (roles), domains (areas of focus) and roadmap for Cloud(specifically AWS) FinOps to provide financial recommendations for cloud usage.
· Collaborate with staff on cloud(specifically AWS) improvements. Create and present financial models and reports.
· Continuously monitor cost of services and perform Total Cost of Ownership studies.
· Manage central financial control centre to promote cost transparency.
· Identify and categorize services by sub-accounts.
· Help develop the billing and analytics engines of the centralized decision-making portal.
· Meet with individual customers to review and optimize their specific cloud instance spend as directed by the Government.
Required Qualifications: WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
* Education: Bachelor degree
* Required Experience: 10+ years of experience with IT systems to include
5+ years of experience with cloud systems;
3+ years of cloud financial/economics experience;
3+ years of project experience in a multi-cloud environment / AWS
* Required Skills And Abilities:
* Knowledge of specific FinOps tools such as KION, Apptio, CloudChkr and cloud native cost optimization tools
* Strong organizational and interpersonal skills and demonstrated experience working with stakeholders and development teams.
* Strong communication skills, oral and written, to convey cloud technologies and solutions to customer personnel.
* Experience with relational databases, data extraction, and data analysis tools..
* Understanding of industry best practices related to Cloud resource tagging and tagging enforcement through automation