Principal Cloud Finops Analyst

Join our team as a Principal Cloud FinOps Analyst, where you will play a crucial role in providing visibility into cloud costs and margins, enabling data-driven decisions to optimize cloud spend. You will build spend visibility dashboards, develop cloud spend forecast models, define spend alarms, and track unit economics of the product portfolio. This is a remote position with numerous career advancement opportunities, a collaborative and innovative culture, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

• Construire des tableaux de bord de visibilité des dépenses, en partenariat avec les équipes d'ingénierie et de produit pour définir la taxonomie de balisage.
• Développer des modèles de prévision des dépenses cloud qui intègrent les prévisions de ventes et les initiatives de feuille de route des produits.
• Définir des alarmes de dépenses basées sur les budgets et les prévisions, et conduire les enquêtes sur les incidents de dépenses.
• Strong communication skills. Ability to present spend findings to both Engineering and Finance leaders. Ability to translate and map between infrastructure details and business value
• Able to independently investigate anomalies, identify cost drivers, and answer questions on spend
• Experience in a FinOps role at a B2B SaaS company with a multi-tenant architecture. Familiarity with the challenge of attributing shared infrastructure costs to specific customers or product features
• Ability to analyze and explore large, complex billing datasets
• Spreadsheet skills. Ability to build forecasting models in Excel/Google Sheets
• Significant experience as a FinOps cloud spend analyst on a major cloud provider. Deep familiarity with cost and usage data and SQL based billing analysis, preferably on AWS
• Strong exploratory data analysis skills in SQL
• Must have built cost reporting and dashboards for spend visibility. Experience in BI tooling such as AWS QuickSight, GCP Data Studio, Tableau, Looker, or similar
• Able to independently spend anomaly investigations, document findings, and make well defined clear recommendations
• Familiarity with AWS/GCP/Azure savings mechanisms — Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, etc
• Experience working with Engineering on tagging and labelling and driving cost visibility into development processes
• Experienced in analysis of a cloud vendor’s billing data in SQL
• FinOps Foundation certification (FOCP or practitioner level) or equivalent demonstrated knowledge of FinOps frameworks and lifecycle