Cloud Architect
Company: Apex Systems
Location: Houston
Posted on: August 7, 2022
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Job Description:
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Sr. Cloud FinOps Architect
The Sr. Cloud FinOps Architect is responsible for developing,
maintaining, and supporting the cost management practices of public
cloud services. This role will lead, develop, and implement the
processes and capabilities required that ensure costs optimization.
The Sr. Cloud FinOps Architect is expected to possess excellent
interpersonal, communication and listening skills necessary to
effectively collaborate with key stakeholders across the
organization.
PRINCIPAL 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 self-service 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 right size 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 job-related duties as requested
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years developing and operating infrastructure, public cloud
environments, finance or IT infrastructure / platform's role or
related experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business or a related
field, or equivalent experience
PREFERRED:
- Previous experience working with vendors and performing contract
analysis
- Strong understanding of technical software engineering
concepts
- Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP cloud environments
preferred
- 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
CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
- Gaming Registration card and/or license in relevant
jurisdictions.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Proficient knowledge of AWS, Azure and GCP dashboards
- Knowledge of financial reporting and product roadmap
processes
- Ability to learn various computer systems quickly
- Able to make decisions and work independently
- Must be able to manage numerous projects simultaneously at
various stages of development
- Establish and maintain an effective working relationship with
leadership and peers
- Must have strong interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively
with business partners
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to articulate
complex technical topics to a non-technical audience (including
senior leadership)
- Experience working with AWS, Azure, GCP or other cloud
platforms
- Experience with Windows and/or Linux Server Administration
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