AWS Fin Ops SME - Job description
• Collaborate with architects and clients to establish cloud economics tools and platforms based on Federal and Industry Cloud(specifically AWS) FinOps best practices.
• Develop agency and program specific framework for FinOps principals, personas (roles), domains (areas of focus) and roadmap for Cloud(specifically AWS) FinOps to provide financial recommendations for cloud usage.
• Collaborate with staff on cloud(specifically AWS) improvements. Create and present financial models and reports.
• Continuously monitor cost of services and perform Total Cost of Ownership studies.
• Manage central financial control centre to promote cost transparency.
• Identify and categorize services by sub-accounts.
• Help develop the billing and analytics engines of the centralized decision-making portal.
• Meet with individual customers to review and optimize their specific cloud instance spend as directed by the Government.

Required Qualifications: WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
• Education: Bachelor degree
• Required Experience: 10+ years of experience with IT systems to include

5+ years of experience with cloud systems;
3+ years of cloud financial/economics experience;
3+ years of project experience in a multi-cloud environment / AWS

• Required Skills And Abilities:
• Knowledge of specific FinOps tools such as KION, Apptio, CloudChkr and cloud native cost optimization tools
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills and demonstrated experience working with stakeholders and development teams.
• Strong communication skills, oral and written, to convey cloud technologies and solutions to customer personnel.
• Experience with relational databases, data extraction, and data analysis tools.

• Understanding of industry best practices related to Cloud resource tagging and tagging enforcement through automation.