AWS FinOps Architect
- Atlanta, GA
- Contract
- Full-time
The client provides information technology (IT) services, including business outsourcing, infrastructure technology, and application services. The application service offered by the company includes application development, maintenance, and support. The markets served by the company are financial services and insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, government, transportation, communications, and consumer and retail industries.Rate Range: $105-$110/HrJob Description:
- AWS FinOps Architect with FinOps Certifications
- Minimum Experience : 15+ years
- Sound knowledge on AWS platform and configurations with proficiency on establishing FinOps Analysis, Approaches, Qualification, and Classification criteria including remediation approaches
- Work with client FinOps and CFO teams to leverage FinOps data & processes to facilitate Budgeting & Forecasting
- Budgeting - Baselining Spend Expectations - projects, applications + Alerts for projected Budget threshold breaches
- Forecasting - Identifying projected deltas including growth and program driven (Work with CloudOps / ITOps teams)
- Reviews of Reservations (supplemented by IT Operations data)
- Adjustments to Baselines & Savings Plans
- Product and Service switches to optimize sourcing and Savings/Discount plans
- Work with IT Operation and Cloud Operations teams to identify the type activities/interventions that could address actions identified by above controls
- Work with stakeholders (engineering, application, business, audit, sourcing, budgeting & forecasting, and operations teams) to establish appropriate OCM (Operational Change Management) avenues to promote FinOps culture in their planning and actions
- Governance and Review forums
- Architecture and Roadmaps (incl. Patterns/Template/Blueprints)
- Automations and Standard Operating Processes
- Establish and evolve Tagging Standards to ensure appropriate tracking and usage/spend baselines can be established to support / differentiate
- existing Public Cloud workloads
- future migrated Public Cloud workloads
- changes to existing public cloud workloads due to new releases, approved changes, and organic growth
- Establish (with client FinOps team) detailed data streams for near real-time (and real time) costs and consumption for engineering, application, and business teams.
- spend and usage/allocations (from billing data)
- breakdown by accounts, by applications, by line of business (business functions) discounts and credits cross leverage Observability/Instrumentation (e.g., OTel) to enhance information that could be provided that influence spending/consumption patterns
- Governance
- Cost Management (Including Baseline Cost Tracking)
- IT Operations
- Program Management
- Establish and evolve relevant controls to be integrated into provisioning and operational processes
- Detective controls - identify and report errors and irregularities - e.g., Incomplete tagging, unallocated assets, underutilized assets, deviations from WAF/Roadmap standards
- Corrective controls - correct errors or irregularities that have been detected - e.g., correct tagging
- Preventive controls - taken before a threat to reduce the chance of it happening and the impact it has - e.g., ensure provisioning can't proceed without complete data/parameters
- Deterrent controls - Method or control to discourage a potential bad actor - e.g., highlight and dissuade configuration/provisioning outside defined pipelines or change activities
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