FinOps SME

Role: FinOps SME
Location: Calgary AB
Contract

Must have:

1. The FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) .
2. FinOps Certified Professional.
3. Cloud cost optimization.

About the Role

This senior-level role is ideal for someone passionate about cloud financial management cost optimization and solutioning. Were looking for a hands-on leader who is actively engaged in the FinOps community and ready to drive strategic impact.

Role Highlights:

• Define and execute cloud financial strategy
• Establish governance frameworks and FinOps best practices
• Lead a high-performing FinOps team
• Collaborate with finance engineering and product teams

What Were Looking For:

• Proven FinOps experience
• Automation and Solution Architect FinOps Experience
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Active involvement in the FinOps Community or similar industry groups

FinOps SME for Public Cloud

Responsibilities of FinOps Practitioner:

• Conduct training and on boarding sessions on FinOps for various stakeholders
• Help the customer with on boarding process and adoption of the FinOps platform
• Identify and communicate dependencies on various stakeholders
• Plan and collate the Cloud FinOps requirements with the Customer
• Assessment of existing reports and data around cloud spend
• Assessment of Past bills and invoices/purchases
• Assessment of current utilizations on Cloud services
• Conduct periodic performance reviews with various stakeholders to optimize cloud consumption
• Deliver sample chargeback and show back reports from the FinOps Tool
• Flag any suspicious cost spikes help in setting anomaly and budget alerts for BU Teams
• Set scheduling rules optimization rules etc. as per the Customer requirements
• Showback/Chargeback and Business unit custom integration recommendation
• Work with the customer to help define Public Cloud Policies related to FinOps
• Track recommendations and initiatives
• Quick wins identification Roadmap & Platform Recommendation with Business Case
• Cost Allocation (Tagging Hierarchy Metadata and Shared Cost)
• Experience with cloud cost management tools (Cloudability CloudHealth etc.).
• Strong experience of cloud computing platforms (AWS Azure )
• Implementing Environment Hygiene & Best Practices
• Tracking Cloud Consumption & Spend Forecasting
• Performing Budget Management and Anomaly detection
• Utilizing Cloud Policy & Governance /Third Party Tool/Custom Dashboard
• Proactively monitor cloud usage patterns and identify anomalies enabling quick action to prevent cost experience in capacity planning or cloud operations preferably in a large-scale SaaS environment
• Excellent quantitative analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in data analysis and modeling methodologies for capacity forecasting
• Strong experience of cloud computing platforms (AWS/Azure SaaS vendors) and Cloud Native technologies (Kubernetes Prometheus OpenCost etc)