AWS FinOps Architect

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

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)
Automations 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:
o Governance
Cost Management (Including Baseline Cost Tracking)
o IT Operations
o 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