Our Organization
HashiCorp helps solve development operations and security challenges in infrastructure so organizations can focus on businesscritical tasks. We build products to give organizations a consistent way to manage their move to cloudbased IT infrastructures for running their applications.
Our Team
The HashiCorp FinOps Engineering team is responsible for driving and improving HashiCorps internal FinOps capabilities and culture. Our focus is on empowering costconscious decision making by enabling HashiCorp engineers to understand the cost efficiency of their systems through the democratization and attribution of cost and usage data. We seek to measure cultural progress by identifying a set of KPIs and foster continuous improvement through training crossfunctional collaboration and gamification. This team will involve a mixture of software engineering and cloud infrastructure engineering experience with a focus on both building tooling and cloud optimization expertise. The team will build strong cross functional partnerships across finance product and engineering to deliver meaningful outcomes.
About this Role
This engineering role is on a nascent growing engineering team. The team is responsible for products that touch many areas of engineering organizations at HashiCorp so applicants will need to excel at collaboration have productfocused mindsets and be comfortable iterating in an agile manner towards solutions.
In this role you can expect to:
Key Objectives:
- FinOps Leadership: Drive internal FinOps capabilities and culture fostering a costconscious engineering environment.
- DataDriven 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 decisionmaking.
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 costeffective 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.
CrossFunctional Collaboration:
- Learn teach and collaborate crossfunctionally to promote shared understanding of FinOps principles and best practices.
You may be a good fit for our team if:
- 9 years of experience in professional backend software development in cloud environments with proficiency in major cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and their associated services pricing models and management tools.
- Proficiency in GolangPython or any other programming language is necessary.
- FinOps Experience: Proven track record of working with Cost Management Solutions such as AWS CUDOS CloudZero etc. and developing effective FinOps practices to optimize cloud spend.
- Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau Qlik PowerBI etc) is highly desirable
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Certification and FinOps Foundation Certified Practitioner are a plus.
- Strong experience with Terraform Kubernetes GitHub and configuration management tools such as Ansible is preferred
- Team player with effective interpersonal skills. Manage relationships with key partners across different functions. Able to collaborate with remote teams effectively.
- Worked with SaaS or another type of managed software offerings #LIHybrid
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Required Experience:
Senior IC