The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced cloud engineer with exposure to FinOps & Cost Saving practices. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in cloud practices, FinOps principles, and cloud optimization tools. Additionally, they will collaborate closely with development teams leveraging CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and modern DevOps practices to deliver cost-effective, scalable solutions.
Our cloud estate is 70% on GCP and the rest is on AWS, AZURE.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Collaborate with development teams utilizing CI/CD pipelines and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and help them deploy cost effective solution
- Deployment & integration of tools like IBM Turbonomic and Cloudability to monitor and optimize cloud expenditures.
- Implement tagging, resource allocation, and governance best practices across cloud platforms.
- Conduct periodic audits of cloud resources to identify and eliminate inefficiencies.
- Stay up-to-date on pricing models, new services, and best practices for AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Build automated deployment pipelines & IAC
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Hands-on experience on GCP cloud platform
- Knowledge of FinOps practices would be advantageous.
- Expertise in managing cloud costs for GCP, AWS and Azure environments.
- Hands-on experience with tools like IBM Turbonomic and Cloudability would be advantageous.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerized applications, and DevOps workflows.
- Certification in GCP cloud platform is preferred.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with scripting and automation (Ansible, Terraform) for managing cloud resources.
- Knowledge of cloud governance frameworks and ITIL processes.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Personal Profile
Essential:
- Understands business context and is driven to see analytics drive action and create value
- Understand the importance of integrity in our work and commitment to transparency and truth in analytics
- A resilient and enthusiastic who responds constructively to new ideas and input
- Can explain complex problems and solutions to senior leaders and technical teams
- An effective team player, actively develops and supports team members
- A passionate continuous learner with curious mind.
Desirable:
- An individual with the ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style
- Helps drive a culture of continuous improvement by identifying team weaknesses and potential solutions
An individual with the capability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with medium term planning
Keyskills: cloudability GCP CI/CD Apptio Google cloud