FinOps Analyst Senior

"I can succeed as a Senior FinOps Analyst at Capital Group."

As a Senior FinOps Analyst you'll utilize superior analytical and quantitative skills to perform departmental cloud demand forecasting, cost optimization, capacity planning, cloud utilization analysis, spend modelling, and cost savings strategy development. By partnering with our engineering and software development teams, you will recommend cost optimized alternatives for existing solutions in the cloud and design and create reports that produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, CMDB (Configuration Management Data Base), and other asset inventories.

You will also implement and manage solutions to complex licensing and pricing options, applying hardware engineering, software design theories, cloud and software pricing models, and financial discipline to drive recommendations on cost optimized design.

You will have the opportunity to make cost optimization recommendations that drive down cost. You will partner with business leaders to influence our FinOps service strategy and provide leadership to others through innovation, critical thinking, collaboration, and operational excellence.

"I am the person Capital Group is looking for."

• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

• You have FinOps experience working with or for major public cloud providers, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, cloud spend management, possess strong financial skills and understanding of corporate accounting processes

• You are a FinOps certified practitioner and have one or more relevant certifications from a major public cloud provider such as AWS Cloud Practitioner or AWS Solutions Architect

• You have a strong technical background to manage relevant tools and reporting in the FinOps space such as: Apptio Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer, and PowerBi or similar reporting tools

• You're thoughtful in your approach to FinOps best practices. You drive and incorporate best practices throughout areas of responsibility

• Your agile mindset and passion for designing services that enables technology owners to optimize spend

• You have financial discipline, a strong business acumen, technical expertise, leadership skills and proven experience providing knowledge transfer

• You are able to study and analyze structured and unstructured data to communicate trends, metrics and actionable recommendations in verbal briefs, dashboards and reports to a wide ranging business audience.

• You have Experience with at least one Cloud Provider (i.e. AWS, Azure)

• You have experience with automation and deployment tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)

• You are familiar with CI/CD processes and concepts

• You have knowledge and experience with at least one Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool

• You have strong operational/tactical execution capabilities

• You have advanced coding capabilities with a modern programming language (e.g. Python)

In addition to a highly competitive base salary, per plan guidelines, restrictions and vesting requirements, you also will be eligible for an individual annual performance bonus, plus Capital's annual profitability bonus plus a retirement plan where Capital contributes 15% of your eligible earnings.

You can learn more about our compensation and benefits here.

* Temporary positions in Canada and the United States are excluded from the above mentioned compensation and benefit plans.

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