Job Description for Fin Ops Practitioner
Exp- 10 to 14 Yrs,
Location - Noida and Hyderabad.
– AWS/AZURE/GCP
With “cloud-first” strategy the organization need to improve the processes in workload management as the procurement of resources in the cloud is not done by the Finance team alone, as in the past, but by Cloud Engineers & Product Owners. Adopting Fin Ops principles has helped to create visibility of the cloud spend, optimize the resource usage and longer-term commitments to get discounted rates for our workloads. The candidate should have the following skills:
- Manage cost visibility of public cloud platform for AWS/AZURE/GCP
- Monitor cloud spend and create budget alerts
- Review & recommend the Fin Ops tool
- Facilitate the implementation of Fin Ops tool
- Conduct periodic reports and regular reviews of cloud spend with Google Cloud Billing Console & with other Fin Ops tool
- Manage cloud commitments (CUD, Saving Plans, RI) & suggest use of Preemptible or Spot instances, wherever suitable
- Identify unused resources and schedule decommissioning
- Optimize existing resources by rightsizing instances
- Optimize architecture by migrating to scalable resources
- Define the Fin Ops framework and roadmap
- Support Finance for budgeting forecast and Enterprise agreements with providers
- Become the bridge between Finance, Product Owners & Cloud Engineers
- Advocate Fin Ops principles in day-to-day operations & induce Fin Ops culture within the stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree holder in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant fields
- At least 5 years of experience on public cloud platforms and at least 2 years of exposure to AWS/AZURE/GCP billing management
- Fin Ops Certified Practitioner is a must.
- Associate or Professional level certified candidate in AWS/AZURE/GCP is a plus.
- Good understanding of AWS/AZURE/GCP Billing methodology, Organization & Project structure
- Good understanding of instance types, storage types & of other AWS/AZURE/GCP services
- Good understanding of cost drivers for cloud resources
- Capable to consolidate data and deliver aggregate view/report
- Understanding of variable cost models for cloud resources
- Possess moderate verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with technical and nontechnical personnel at various levels in the organization and with vendors
- Good understanding of MS excel, Power Point and any other presentation application.
- Understanding of Power BI reports.