Key Objectives:

• FinOps Leadership: Drive internal FinOps capabilities and culture, fostering a cost-conscious engineering environment.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Democratize cost and usage data to inform engineering decisions, promoting transparency and accountability.
• Cloud Efficiency: Strategically drive infrastructure efficiency improvements, developing dashboards to analyze costs and unit economics.
• Metrics & Reporting: Develop critical success metrics and reports to track spending and usage trends, enabling better decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver elegant solutions that improve FinOps capabilities and foster a FinOps engineering culture.
• Create dashboards and analytics to track cloud spend, identifying opportunities for optimization and cost savings.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to develop product architecture that considers cost drivers and efficiency gains.
• Develop financial and usage dashboards, working with finance teams on budget forecasting and tagging.
• Establish policies, controls, and best practices to govern cloud spending across the organization.

Additional Tasks:

• Develop solutions and frameworks for cost-effective testing, deployment, and monitoring of services.
• Work with engineering teams to identify opportunities for infrastructure efficiency improvements.
• Monitor cloud consumption at the account level, detecting anomalies and unplanned spikes.
• Build technical skills and relationships within a team of engineers and SREs.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Learn, teach, and collaborate cross-functionally to promote shared understanding of FinOps principles and best practices.