Las Vegas, NV
Sr. Cloud FinOps Architect
Job Description
Link Technologies (LinkTechConsulting.com), a Las Vegas based IT consulting firm, is currently seeking a Sr. Cloud FinOps Architect for a position in Las Vegas, NV. This is a remote, permanent opportunity for candidates that live in NV, CA, TX, or FL. Vegas local candidates strongly preferred.
REQUIRED:
- 5+ years architecting, developing, and operating infrastructure in public cloud environments (Azure preferred, AWS / GCP okay) with a focus on FinOps (cloud cost, cloud billing, forecasting, financial monitoring, financial reporting, etc.)
DESIRED:
- Previous experience working with vendors and performing contract analysis
- Strong understanding of technical software engineering concepts
- Experience with cloud telemetry tools preferred (CloudWatch, Datadog, Honeycomb, etc.)
- Prior working knowledge of the pricing and consumption models in at least one of the major public cloud providers and experience with market leading cloud cost products (e.g. Flexera RightScale, ServiceNow, CloudHealth or CloudCheckr) preferred
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide subject matter expertise in all FinOps aspects of public cloud services, as well as review and approve deployment of new instances & systems within Cloud environments
- Collaborate with technology teams to incorporate cost management best practices into cloud platforms via tagging, alerting and configurations that supports financial monitoring of cloud platforms
- Create and oversee a cloud billing dashboard to track, manage and optimize cloud costs and Reserved Instance purchases
- Build a dashboard that provides secure selfservice capabilities to all TDD teams on cloud spend
- Establish KPIs to track progress and success of transformation and optimization opportunities
- Lead regular cadence with Finance, Sr. leaders and technical peers providing expert advice on cloud financial management activities
- Also responsible for reporting, escalating, and remediating system alerts based on the established processes
- Provide summaries and detailed usage statistics on costs for resources across public clouds environments, offering actionable intelligence to rightsize and scale services efficiently
- Creating operational metrics to demonstrate costs and usage and assist with tracking for key stakeholders
- Participate in integrated and new systems planning and provide cost forecasts for implementation details for cloud governance processes
- Serve as expert on Cloud costing
- Optimization strategies, Operating Guidelines/Principles, and Services/Solutions
- Perform other jobrelated duties as requested
Link Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors protected by law.
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