Cloud FinOps engineer

Job Role: Cloud FinOps engineer

Location: Hybrid, Plano, Texas.

Duration: 6 Months Contract

Responsibilities:

• This individual will be responsible for building dashboards in tableau or power-bi. They will work to use analytical skills to analyze data from accounting, automating processes with the team. Communicate with internal customers (other product groups locally)
• Provide visibility into cloud cost drivers to the Engineering, Finance, and Executive teams giving them enough information to make appropriate trade-offs between costs and business needs
• Automate cost reporting, alerting and visualization for various cloud cost metrics
• Identify and alert on cloud cost anomalies in a timely fashion
• Think independently to solve difficult data problems
• Collate, analyze, and prioritize cloud optimization recommendations and calculate potential savings
• Provide expert knowledge of cloud cost optimization strategies (e.g. rightsizing, power scheduling, etc.)
• Collaborate with cross-functional product and finance teams within Toyota Connected to understand business needs and for cost optimization to develop key metrics and reporting
• Ensuring optimization recommendations go through the appropriate governance process and get actioned
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to implement cost optimization recommendations and best practices
• Utilize data to tell compelling stories by visualizing cloud usage, driving cloud cost optimization practices within product engineering teams
• Operate in a highly iterative Agile development environment
• Stay up to date with industry trends and regulations related to FinOps and Cloud Cost Optimization

Required Skills:

• 1-4 years of experience with native and 3rd party public cloud cost management & advisory tools (AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Trusted Advisor, Google Cloud Platform Billing, Google Cloud Platform Recommender, Azure Cost Management & Billing, Azure Advisor, Azure Pricing Calculator, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of the Amazon ecosystem is a plus
• Experience with data analysis and data visualization tools (AWS QuickSight, DataStudio, BigQuery, PowerBI, Tableau, etc.)
• Experience with SQL Queries and Python, Go, or similar scripting language to create automations
• Strong understanding of financial systems and processes in a cloud-based environment
• Demonstrates competency with cloud-based technologies such as AWS, Google Cloud, and/or Azure
• Hands on experience utilizing public cloud APIs, Dashboards, and automation
• Expertise in cloud optimizations, including reservations, savings plans, right-sizing, lifecycle management and rearchitecture
• Experience in how to organize and analyze data, apply formulas, and get different slices of data, such as price per product/department
• Ability to convey finance terms to engineering teams and vice versa
• Experience with cloud-based financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting tools
• Ability to learn and apply modern technologies, programming practices, patterns, and methods
• Solutions-oriented with an ability to keep an open mind while finding agreeable solutions
• Organized and detail-oriented
• Experience working in an Agile environment using frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban,or similar
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks/assignments
• Ability to develop healthy working relationships and collaborate with customers, peers, and leaders
• Exhibits integrity and high standards in work quality

Added Bonus if you have:

• FinOps Certified Practitioner
• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Finance, Accounting, or related fie