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Team: Infrastructure and Enablement - SRE Ops
Salary banding: 60000 - 84000
Experience: Mid to Expert (Lead Equivalent)
Working pattern: Full-Time
Reporting to: Director of Cloud
Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
This role in 3 words: Optimise Automate Influence
Top 3 qualities for this role: Analytical Collaborative Proactive
Where youll work:
Depending on the needs of your business area we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week and to go to OVO Connection events in-person.
Youll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices Bristol Glasgow or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop is designed to inspire people help them connect and bring big ideas to life.
Everyone belongs at OVO
At OVO we are on a mission to solve one of humanitys biggest challenges the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. Thats why we need diverse people from all abilities gender identities ethnicities ages sexual orientations life experiences and backgrounds to join us.
Teamworking for the planet
Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So naturally the team youll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Heres how:
The Infrastructure & Enablement team is crucial to OVOs success directly impacting its mission to achieve Carbon Zero by providing cloud-native platforms resilient infrastructure and efficient engineering solutions. As the FinOps Lead youll be a key member of this team reporting to the Director of Infrastructure and Enablement. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure we are driving value for money and innovation within our cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with the engineering community to embed cost-conscious practices and your efforts will directly contribute to the financial health of the business and our journey towards greater efficiency.
This role in a nutshell:
The FinOps Lead is a crucial role within the Infrastructure & Enablement team focused on driving financial efficiency across our multi-cloud environment. Youll blend technical expertise with financial acumen to optimise cloud spending automate cost-saving solutions and cultivate a culture of cost-consciousness within our engineering teams. A key part of this will be ensuring the correct and efficient use of cloud technologies which directly contributes to our carbon reduction goals by minimising wasted resources and energy consumption.
Your key outcomes will be:
Financial Management & Optimisation:
Lead the analysis and management of our cloud spend across GCP AWS and Azure.
Develop and implement strategies to optimise cloud costs including identifying waste rightsizing resources and leveraging discount programs like GCPs committed use discounts (CUDs) and AWS Savings Plans.
Collaborate with finance and senior leadership to create accurate and data-driven cost forecasts and budgets for all cloud services.
Financial usage forecasting for long term commitments.
Operational & Programmatic Solutions:
Work hands-on to create and maintain automated dashboards and reporting tools that provide real-time visibility into engineering costs for both technical and financial stakeholders.
Partner with our SRE and development teams to embed cost optimisation principles and best practices directly into our development lifecycle and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) pipelines.
Champion programmatic solutions to common FinOps challenges such as implementing automated shutdown scripts for non-production environments or creating self-service tools for developers to monitor their own costs.
Budget Tracking and anomaly detection.
Education & Culture:
Act as an evangelist for FinOps educating engineers product managers and other stakeholders on the financial impact of their technical decisions.
Help define and document best practices for resource tagging management and governance to improve cost visibility and accountability.
Vendor & Stakeholder Management:
Maintain regular engagement with our cloud provider account teams (GCP AWS Azure) to stay informed on new services pricing models and optimisation opportunities.
Work closely with procurement and legal teams on contract management renewals and consolidation for our cloud services.
Youll be a successful FinOps Lead at OVO if you
Youre a Proactive Problem-Solver: Youre highly analytical and enjoy digging into data to identify and solve complex cost and efficiency problems before they become major issues.
Youre a Collaborative Communicator: You can effectively bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams influencing a culture of cost-consciousness across the organisation.
Youre a Hands-On Builder: You arent just an analyst; you have a technical background and Cloud experience with a passion for creating programmatic automated solutions to drive efficiency and carbon reduction.
Lets talk about whats in it for you
Well pay you between 60000 and 84000 depending on your specific skills and experience.
We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us and you flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.
Youll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.
We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVOand theres flex pay. Well give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits including our green benefits which weve put at the heart of our offering add to your pension or even take it as cash.
Heres a taster of whats on offer:
For starters youll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level critical illness cover life assurance health assessments and more
For your wellbeing
With gym membership travel insurance workplace ISA will writing services dental insurance and more
For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying discount dining home & tech loans and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations
For your home
Get up to 400 towards any OVO Energy plan plus great discounts on solar smart thermostats and EV chargers
For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.
For your Belonging
To find better ways to support our people we need to listen to each others experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people for our people - so when you join OVO you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. Its up to you.
Oh and one last thing...
Wed be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe its just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what were looking for but not every single thing go ahead and hit apply. Wed still love to hear from you!
If you have any additional requirements theres a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.
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