Nordcloud, an IBM Company

FinOps Specialist

Nordcloud, an IBM Company

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇵🇱 Poland

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureBigQueryCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQL

About the role

  • Provide strategic guidance and advanced analysis to optimize cloud costs and improve financial accountability
  • Assess processes using the FinOps Foundation Framework, spot gaps and provide recommendations
  • Qualify and quantify cost optimization recommendations for AWS, Azure or Google with value, plan and risk assessments
  • Conduct data analysis (Excel, PowerQuery, BI) and visualize results for customers
  • Build tailored monthly reporting and insights to influence customer ecosystem, track savings and allocate costs
  • Establish productive partnerships with hyperscalers to execute projects successfully
  • Collaborate with pre-sales and sales to improve cost communication with clients and promote best practices
  • Drive automation initiatives to streamline processes and improve efficiency

Requirements

  • Demonstrable proficiency in Azure or AWS or Google Cloud (understand why and how they are used on a high-level)
  • Familiarity with native and external cloud cost management tools for Azure, AWS or Google
  • Practical experience with spreadsheets (e.g., Excel), BI and in-depth data analysis (e.g., Excel PowerQuery)
  • In-depth comprehension of cloud services pricing and payment models, including Use and Rate Optimisation techniques
  • Experience with Power BI or other analytical tools
  • Strong communication skills; fluent English
  • Ability to build influential reports/decks to influence customers and stakeholders
  • Initiative mindset; proactive learning and decision-making
  • Collaboration skills to work with pre-sales, sales and hyperscaler partners
  • Right to work in Poland (must have legal authorization)
  • Plus: SQL and/or Python proficiency for extracting and processing data (S3, Athena, BigQuery, Blob Storage, etc.)
  • Plus: Knowledge of FinOps tooling such as Cloudability, Flexera, CloudHealth or similar