FinOps Lead Role

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The Cloud FinOps Lead plays a crucial role in managing and optimizing cloud financials within an organization. This role involves developing strategies and systems for effective cloud cost management, particularly in Azure environments, ensuring financial transparency, and maximizing efficiency in cloud spending.

Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed case studies on client cloud budget overages and cost issues to derive actionable insights. 
• Highlight FinOps issues, cost drivers, variance, centralized or amortized support.
• Develop cloud spending visibility, benchmarks, and optimization strategies to enhance business value. 
• Communicate FinOps plans effectively to operators and stakeholders. 
• Give visibility for allocation creating shared accountability, scorecards, and benchmarks.
• Support audits, and compliance requirements, particularly in cloud financial management.
• FinOps builds justification, assesses maturity, and introduces the stage of FinOps.
• Work alongside the CCOE architects to inform the FinOps organization development plan.
• OKRs objectives, outcomes, reducing spend, rate optimization, RI strategy, process automation, onboarding.
• Help with building a Tagging strategy and implementing it.
• Financially inclusive for cost allocation and future cost optimization, critical splits of team, service, BU/CC, production/non-prod.
• Implement automation and AI tools to streamline FinOps processes, ensuring operational success and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Proven experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, or a similar field, with specific expertise in Azure cloud services. 
• Strong understanding of Azure cloud services and infrastructure. 
• Proficiency in Azure Cost Management and Billing, Azure Advisor, and Azure Monitor. 
• Familiarity with other FinOps tools like CloudHealth by VMware, Apptio Cloudability, and Flexera. 
• Experience with automation technologies, including AI, for financial operations, specifically in Azure using tools like Azure Automation and Azure Logic Apps.
• Certification in FinOps or cloud management is highly desirable, particularly Azure-related certifications.
• Fluent English and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work as part of an international, distributed team and resolve potential issues and challenges that come with remote work.

About Adeva

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