What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud FinOps Engineer position at Galent?
Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer
Dallas, TX
Contract
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and own systems and capabilities needed for cloud financial management across globally distributed businesses and teams
- Define mission and vision for the Cloud Financials team, lead design and architecture discussions, advocate for best practices, participate in code reviews, and contribute to scaling the team
- Implement a unified view of costs related to direct consumption and shared costs across multiple public cloud providers and PaaS/SaaS vendors for visibility and accurate chargeback
- Implement a cost optimization business process framework targeting both rate and usage-based optimization
- Engineer an automated payment and recovery process for cloud cost actualization
- Develop budgeting and forecast modules along with cost controls to be used firm-wide
- Participate in projects to automate and scale reporting on key capacity metrics, supply chain performance, and growth drivers
Qualifications:
- 10-15 yrs expertise developing software and proficiency in Java. Python is a plus.
- Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms) and problem-solving skills
- Systematic problem-solving approach with excellent communication skills and a sense of ownership
- Expertise with Service Oriented Architectures, API-first approach, and cloud-based service offerings, preferably on AWS.
- Experience working with relational/NoSQL databases
- Experience with developing and operating on the cloud
- Experience working with AWS, GCP. Azure is a plus.
- Experience working with large scale ETL solutions, and data processing and querying solutions e.g., Apache Spark
- Experience with DevOps, modern SDLC practices and tools
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field
- Familiarity with predictive analytic models like time-series, outlier, and forecast models
- Knowledge of Public Cloud offerings, consumption models, and billing concepts
- Prior experience in Cloud Cost Management with knowledge in tools such as Cloudability, Spot.io, Densify, reserved.ai, etc.
