
Cloud FinOps Practitioner
Cox Enterprises
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Raleigh • North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $134,900 - $224,900 per year
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