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Finops Consultant - London, United Kingdom - Infoplus Technologies

Infoplus Technologies

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Key Accountabilities:

Run the regular Cross Platform FinOps Working Group in order to promote cross cloud platform consistency and best practice as regards the deployment of cost and carbon optimised services
Identify structural sources of wastage, develop plans and obtain buy in and sponsorship for optimisation
Define, drive, track and report on identified structural cloud optimisation tactics and associated targets, with an objective to reducing cost
Define the strategy for platforms to deploy FinOps fit products
Produce and maintain guidance and criteria for the deployment of "FinOps Ready" cloud services for stakeholder workloads
Produce optimisation recommendation reports and present findings the at working groups and governance forums
Develop strategies and artefacts to enhance the transparency of shared cloud costs to the value streams and business
Collate, analyse and prioritise cloud optimisation recommendations and calculate potential savings and benefits
Coordinate with platform engineers to perform optimisation analysis and planning on the major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alicloud, Clients Internal Cloud)
Work with value streams, platforms and the business, where appropriate, on architectural approaches to ensuring optimised consumption of cloud services
Articulate the benefits of the embedding of cost optimisation approaches and related initiatives to stakeholders and governance forums
Develop support tools and teaching aids to help value streams, platforms and the business, where appropriate, to understand their cloud spend patterns and areas for potential optimisation
Provide inputs into optimisation execution, benefits tracking and business case creation
Provide inputs into senior governance forums SBRs, ManCo, CEC, OpCo etc

Knowledge:

Excellent understanding of the major cloud providers' product offerings and existing relationship with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alicloud)
Excellent understanding and practical experience of the major cloud provider's consumption and pricing options, cost principles and cost drivers
Good understanding and practical experience of Reserved Instances, Committed Use Discounts (CUDs), Savings Plans and any other optimisation proposals by all cloud providers
Understanding of best practices in order to maintain and lead levels of governance and control
Knowledge of Cloud Financial Operations concepts and best practices (preferably Certified FinOps Practitioner)

Essential Skills and Experience:

Hands on experience with Cloudability or similar tool
Strong analytical background with the ability to proactively create, interrogate, interpret and draw conclusion/clear next steps from a data set
Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills with the ability to produce meaningful and accurate insights
Ability to present and articulate analytics work effectively
Strong attention to detail with regards to data quality and data management
Proactive and self-motivated
Strong ability and desire to problem solve
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence others and drive a coordinated approach
Strong cross-group collaboration and communication skills
Experience working in agile environment