What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS FinOps Architect position at Hirekeyz?
Job Details
Role: AWS FinOps Architect
Location: Atlanta,GA or Minneapolis,MN
Job Type: Contract/Full Time/ W2
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)
- 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:
- 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
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