Senior Cloud Finops Analyst
Senior Cloud Finops Analyst
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Job Description
The Team Cloud Enablement
What we do:
The Cloud Enablement team provides a stable secure and optimised cloud platform for all SEEKers. We enable engineering teams to leverage cloud technology through services and prescriptive guidance that promote agile autonomous delivery and support business transformation.
Our work is delivered across three specialist squads: FinOps Engineering and Database Support.
Why this matters to SEEK:
We are seeking a highly experienced and senior-level Senior FinOps Analyst to join our team. The Senior FinOps Analyst will play a crucial leadership role in optimising our cloud infrastructure costs ensuring efficient resource utilization and driving cost-effective strategies across our cloud environments. You will partner with a wide variety of stakeholders to promote and develop a culture of cost accountability and awareness at SEEK while leading FinOps maturity initiatives and mentoring team members. This role will provide financial modelling budgeting & forecasting consumption analysis including KPIs show back analytics and capacity with a focus on establishing and elevating FinOps practices across the organization.
- Improve efficiencies Solve common problems once for the benefit of all.
- Create value Enable developers and engineers to focus on high-impact innovative work rather than infrastructure deployment.
- Manage risk & security Operate within the guardrails of Always Safe Always On.
- Optimise costs Ensure cloud resources are used efficiently with transparent reporting and accountability.
Key Accountabilities
Data & Insights
- Analyse report and extract insights from large datasets across cloud billing usage tools CMDB and asset inventories.
- Develop predictive analytics and KPI dashboards for cost forecasting and trend monitoring.
- Monitor consumption to detect investigate and address anomalies.
Cost Optimisation & Strategy
- Continuously improve cloud cost optimisation strategies (rightsizing eliminating waste cost-saving measures).
- Lead and evolve the FinOps product roadmap and maturity assessments.
- Manage unit economics modelling and ROI analysis for cloud investments.
Collaboration & Governance
- Partner with engineering operations and finance to align usage with business goals and budgets.
- Participate in cloud architecture reviews to ensure solutions are cost-effective.
- Support budgeting forecasting and reporting processes for cloud spend.
Leadership & Influence
- Mentor FinOps analysts and grow team capability.
- Act as a subject matter expert and escalation point for complex challenges.
- Lead training workshops and the FinOps community of practice to drive a culture of cost-conscious engineering.
- Present to executive leadership to influence strategic cloud investment decisions.
Qualifications :
What Youll Bring
- Proven experience in cloud cost management and FinOps methodologies.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with large datasets billing tools and financial models.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud platforms (preferably AWS and/or GCP) including pricing models discounting mechanisms and governance practices.
- Experience implementing rightsizing cost optimisation and operational efficiency strategies.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong collaboration skills with the ability to partner across engineering finance and operations.
- Ability to present complex cost risk and optimisation concepts to executive-level audiences.
- Experience mentoring team members and fostering best-practice adoption.
- Awareness of emerging cloud technologies and cost management trends.
Additional Information :
Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:
- Annual Performance Bonus Plan
- Support of flexible working including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
- Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
At SEEK we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences especially as they relate to gender sexual identity culture faith disability and life stages. If you have the skills curiosity and an adaptable mindset but dont meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement please still get in touch with us.
Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond please advise us and we will be happy to assist.
For this role only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Remote
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