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Sohail Equbal
ZOR - 3617 - Cloud-FinOps Analyst-Canada
[Toronto, ON, M5A 3P..,  Ontario,  Canada | Posted - 08/02/2024

Role: Cloud-FinOps Analyst

Location: Remote/Canada

Duration: 6+ Months

Job Description:

Must Have: 

Business Systems Analyst background Rate CAD 75 per hour - ( familiar with reporting, presentations, collaboration with other teams, and admin/operational activities).

FinOps certified practitioners with cloud background.

Responsibilities:

  • As a Cloud FinOps Analyst, you will:

  • Work in an exciting, growing, and vital team that is at the center of the action for enterprise roadmap initiatives.

  • Help to deliver secure, scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient cloud solutions in a multi-cloud environment – primarily within Azure, but also in Mulesoft, SAP Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Platform, and a growing list of cloud service providers and cloud hosted solutions.

  • Continuously monitor and optimize cloud service consumption

  • Report on cloud consumption on a periodic basis for Opex spend and Capital program investment attribution.

  • Perform period-over-period analysis on consumption monitoring trends, track and validate cost optimization efforts, and identify opportunities for savings.

  • Work closely with IT Finance on capital registers, Opex budgeting and forecasting.

  • Work with cross-functional teams providing services in the cloud (Azure) to define forecasts and budgets for opex growth and project/program planning.

  • Monitor and report on the burndown against pre-payment reservations (e.g. Azure Databricks). Work closely with consumers and Strategic Sourcing to forecast when those pre-payments will be consumed and assist in the negotiation of subsequent pre-payments and reservations.

  • Support cross-functional teams consuming cloud services to understand issues in spend and opportunities for savings and best practices around consumption of cloud services.

  • Work with the Enterprise Project Management Office (PMO) on project charter estimates for cloud services.

  • Work with the Business Partnership department on financial estimates and estimating frameworks for new business portfolio management (PPMO) initiatives.

  • Maintain relationships with the cloud service providers to gain support and insights and for opportunities for cost optimization.

  • Support IT leadership on enterprise agreement and commit to consume planning.

  • Monitor and report on burndown of commit to consume programs with cloud service providers.

  • Plan, forecasts, manage, and track the inventory of cloud service reservations.

  • Assist in the planning for, evaluation and implementation of cloud consumption management tools and solutions.

  • Setup, maintain, and manage automated alerting for product budgets within Azure.

  • Work with Cloud and DevOps COEs to ensure financial attribution tagging policies are strictly enforced.

  • Perform ad-hoc Cloud consumption analysis as required.

Job Requirements:

  • What Your Resume Will Include And Demonstrate To Us

  • Any related Azure certification will be a significant differentiator.

  • Experience with other public clouds e.g. Google Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud Platform/Foundry.

  • Experience with Salesforce, SAP, SAP-CDC, OSP.

  • E-Commerce and Retail experience.