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Cloud Cost Analyst / FinOps Analyst
Location
Worldwide
Posted
74 days ago
Salary
$98.0K - $132.3K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Cloud Cost Analyst / FinOps Analyst
General Dynamics Information Technology
Role Description Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Cloud Cost Analyst / FinOps Analyst supporting The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. As a Cloud Cost Analyst / FinOps Analyst you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Your responsibilities will include: - Optimizing Cloud spend, including purchasing Reserved Instances and Savings Plans. - Serving as the billing expert available for training customers on understanding Cloud usage and patterns. - Championing and advocating for the use of automated tools. - Providing financial operations training and driving user experience improvements. - Promoting the adoption of processes and FinOps education. This role is fully remote! How a Cloud Cost Analyst / FinOps Analyst will Make an Impact: - Collaborate with architects and clients to establish cloud economics tools and platforms based on Federal and Industry Cloud FinOps best practices. - Develop agency and program-specific framework for FinOps principles, personas (roles), domains (areas of focus), and roadmap for Cloud FinOps to provide financial recommendations for cloud usage. - Create and present financial models and reports. - Continuously monitor cost of services and perform Total Cost of Ownership studies. - Lead technical and financial analysis to help Business and Product Owners determine the impact of cloud hosting by identifying cost savings design options and usage trends that impact projected spending. - Maintain current knowledge of relevant AWS optimization techniques, best practices, policies, and procedures to share in meetings with NIAID leadership, product teams, and infrastructure engineers. - Help develop the billing and analytics engines of the centralized decision-making portal. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of related experience. - 5+ years of experience with Cloud Systems (AWS). - 3+ years of Cloud Financial/Economics experience. - 5+ years of experience working with senior business and product owners to develop business cases, perform value and TCO analysis, and identify and implement cost optimization techniques for cloud infrastructure and applications. - Experience in developing and presenting reports that quantify the cost benefits of different design options for running applications in cloud. - Experience using AWS native optimization tools, such as AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, and/or Amazon QuickSight. - Must be able to obtain NIH Public Trust. Requirements - Strong organizational skills. - Good interpersonal skills. - Must be able to effectively communicate and convey cloud technologies and solutions to customer personnel. - Knowledge of FinOps general practices. - FinOps certification (any) is a plus. - Experience in building and operating financial control and analysis systems such as cloud cost analysis and chargeback models. - Experience working with stakeholders and development teams. Benefits - Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts. - Dental plan options. - Vision plan. - 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. - Full flex work weeks where possible. - Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave. - 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness. - 10 paid holidays per year. - Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. - Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.
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