Cox Enterprises

Cloud FinOps Practitioner

Cox Enterprises

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: RaleighNorth CarolinaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $134,900 - $224,900 per year

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Analyze cloud usage and spending across enterprise environments
  • Identify opportunities for cost reduction, rightsizing, and architectural efficiency
  • Implement strategies including: Reserved instances / savings plans, Commitment-based discounts, Storage lifecycle optimization, Compute rightsizing, Idle resource remediation
  • Establish cost allocation models for business units and product teams
  • Design and implement FinOps operating models aligned with industry standards from the FinOps Foundation
  • Define governance frameworks for cloud cost accountability
  • Build collaboration models across Finance, Engineering, and Product teams
  • Establish chargeback/showback mechanisms
  • Build and implement dashboards and reporting frameworks for cloud spend
  • Develop KPIs and financial metrics including: Cost per customer, Cost per transaction, Unit economics, Cloud gross margin
  • Enable forecasting and budgeting for cloud consumption
  • Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise clients
  • Conduct cloud cost maturity assessments
  • Lead executive-level reviews and FinOps strategy workshops
  • Provide best practices for scaling cloud financial management

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience in in cloud financial management, FinOps, cloud architecture, or cloud consulting or other relevant experience, OR a Master’s degree and 4 years, OR a Ph.D. and 1 year, OR 10 years of related experience in lieu of a degree
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise cloud platforms such as: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
  • Experience analyzing cloud billing data and usage metrics
  • Strong understanding of: cloud pricing models, cost optimization strategies, SaaS infrastructure economics
  • Ability to communicate technical financial concepts to executive stakeholders.
  • Certification from the FinOps Foundation such as FinOps Certified Practitioner
  • Cloud platform certifications such as: AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals, Google Cloud Digital Leader
  • Experience with FinOps and cloud cost tools such as: Cloudability, CloudHealth, CloudBolt
  • Background in enterprise consulting or managed services.
Benefits
  • The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations
  • seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
  • up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
  • Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave
  • health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • retirement planning (401(k))
  • paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud financial managementFinOpscloud architecturecloud consultingcloud pricing modelscost optimization strategiesanalyzing cloud billing datadeveloping KPIsforecastingbudgeting
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationleadershipadvisoryanalytical thinkingstrategic planningproblem-solvingstakeholder managementorganizational skillsexecutive-level presentation
Certifications
FinOps Certified PractitionerAWS Cloud PractitionerAzure FundamentalsGoogle Cloud Digital Leader