Sr Cloud and FinOps Engineer Level 3

Sr. Cloud and FinOps Engineer Level 3
Location: Dallas

The Role

Hitachi Vantara provides secure hyperscale public cloud migrations and infrastructure management services. As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and a recognized leader in Gartners Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud MSPs we deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that meet complex federal requirements.

We are seeking strong Senior Cloud Engineers with experience in AWS architecture operations and cloud financial management (FinOps). Candidates must have prior federal experience a strong understanding of compliance and governance and the ability to lead in both technical implementation and cloud cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of secure and scalable AWS cloud environments for federal clients.
• Partner with FinOps teams to implement cost management practices including reporting budgeting and forecasting.
• Perform in-depth analysis of AWS usage and cost data to identify trends anomalies and cost optimization opportunities.
• Ensure tagging budgeting and reporting policies are enforced in line with FinOps and federal compliance standards.
• Support automation of cloud financial operations using tools like Athena CUR and Cost Explorer APIs.
• Collaborate with procurement finance and engineering teams to align usage with business and budget objectives.
• Senior support engineer for customers as well as the more junior members of the team
• Work with the customer and lead architect on designing and implementing Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments including compute storage database networking security etc. in the CSP ecosystem
• Deploy/Manage CSP environments including VPN solutions between regions and subnets
• Manage CSP Image architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
• Leading junior team members through deployment and implementation of systems infrastructure projects and overseeing the Cloud environments based on customer requirements
• Validation to ensure that the environment meets all security and compliance controls
• Leveraging written and verbal communication skills to work directly with customers and translate business needs into technical requirements for implementation
• Creating knowledge articles and run books for solutions developed
• Mentoring junior members of the team

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience working in 24x7 Operations and Managed Service model supporting external customers.
• Long working knowledge and experience of AWS (Azure and GCP optional) Services and Offerings such as Infrastructure Networking Messaging Application Services Migration Services Cost Management Platform
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (GitLAB GitHub Jenkins)
• Prior experience provisioning and spinning up Kubernetes Clusters and managing Kubernetes installations
• Hands on Terraform experience
• Possession of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in Federal or State government environments
• Understanding of Security and Vulnerability management and related tools (OKTA Tenable TrendMicro XSoar CyberARK)
• In depth knowledge of UNIX/Linux and Windows Environment

• End to End configuration & trouble shooting of the web and application servers (Nginx Apache Tomcat IIS)

• Good written and verbal English communication

• Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers memcached master/slave architectures)
• Experience supporting a managed services infrastructure (Public cloud)
• Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Dynatrace preferred DataDog Nagios Cacti CloudWatch Gnaglia etc.
• Experience with Docker Kubernetes Mesos NoSQL databases (DynamoDB Cassandra MongoDB etc)
• Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer Terraform Vagrant etc.
• Expertise in AWS core services (EC2 S3 RDS Lambda VPC IAM CloudWatch etc.
• Experience with AWS Organizations Control Tower and multi-account governance
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation)
• Experience designing secure scalable AWS environments in federal settings (FedRAMP NIST 800-53
• Proficient in Kubernetes deployment on AWS (EKS preferred)
• Experience with AWS billing tools: Cost Explorer Budgets Trusted Advisor Cost & Usage Reports (CUR)
• Strong understanding of AWS pricing models (On-Demand Savings Plans RIs)
• Hands-on experience with FinOps automation and reporting (e.g. Athena QuickSight Python-based tooling)
• Familiarity with the FinOps Framework (inform optimize operate)
• Proven track record working in U.S. federal cloud environments
• Deep knowledge of FedRAMP compliance cloud audit readiness and related security controls
• Experience coordinating with federal stakeholders and understanding of procurement/cost allocation models

Optional / Preferred Skills

• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FCP)
• AWS Professional Certification (Solutions Architect SysOps Admin etc.
• Familiarity with multi-cloud FinOps tools (CloudHealth Apptio Cloudability)
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Background in finance procurement or chargeback/showback processes

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