AWS FinOps Architect with FinOps Certifications | Atlanta/GA - 3 Days/ week (HYBRID) | Fulltime

Job title: AWS FinOps Architect with FinOps Certifications

Location: Atlanta/GA - 3 Days/ week Onsite (HYBRID)

Salary: $190K/year + Benefits (Fulltime)

Minimum Experience: 15+ years

Job Description:

• Sound knowledge on AWS platform and configurations with proficiency on establishing FinOps Analysis, Approaches, Qualification, and Classification criteria including remediation approaches
• Work with client FinOps and CFO teams to leverage FinOps data & processes to facilitate Budgeting & Forecasting
• Budgeting Baselining Spend Expectations - projects, applications + Alerts for projected Budget threshold breaches
• Forecasting Identifying projected deltas including growth and program driven (Work with CloudOps / ITOps teams)
• Reviews of Reservations (supplemented by IT Operations data)
• Adjustments to Baselines & Savings Plans
• Product and Service switches to optimize sourcing and Savings/Discount plans
• Work with IT Operation and Cloud Operations teams to identify the type activities/interventions that could address actions identified by above controls
• Work with stakeholders (engineering, application, business, audit, sourcing, budgeting & forecasting, and operations teams) to establish appropriate OCM (Operational Change Management) avenues to promote FinOps culture in their planning and actions
• Governance and Review forums
• Architecture and Roadmaps (incl. Patterns/Template/Blueprints)
• Automation and Standard Operating Processes
• Establish and evolve Tagging Standards to ensure appropriate tracking and usage/spend baselines can be established to support / differentiate
• existing Public Cloud workloads
• Future Migrated Public Cloud workloads
• changes to existing public cloud workloads due to new releases, approved changes, and organic growth
• Establish (with client FinOps team) detailed data streams for near real-time (and real time) costs and consumption for engineering, application, and business teams.
• spend and usage/allocations (from billing data)
• breakdown by accounts, by applications, by line of business (business functions) discounts and credits cross leverage Observability/Instrumentation (e.g., OTel) to enhance information that could be provided that influence spending/consumption patterns
• Create Dashboards and Visualizations to support contextual Reporting for:
• Governance
• Cost Management (Including Baseline Cost Tracking)
• IT Operations
• Program Management
• Establish and evolve relevant controls to be integrated into provisioning and operational processes
• Detective controls - identify and report errors and irregularities e.g., Incomplete tagging, unallocated assets, underutilized assets, deviations from WAF/Roadmap standards
• Corrective controls - correct errors or irregularities that have been detected e.g., correct tagging
• Preventive controls - taken before a threat to reduce the chance of it happening and the impact it has e.g., ensure provisioning can't proceed without complete data/parameters
• Deterrent controls Method or control to discourage a potential bad actor e.g., highlight and dissuade configuration/provisioning outside defined pipelines or change activities