About Hapag-Lloyd
With a fleet of 287 modern container ships and a Vessel Capacity 2.2 million TEU, as well as a Container Capacity 3.2 million TEU including one of the world’s largest and most modern reefer container fleets, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. In the Liner Shipping segment, the Company has around 13.500 employees and 400 offices in 139 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 11.9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 114 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports across the world. In the Terminal & Infrastructure segment, Hapag-Lloyd has stakes in 20 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India, and North Africa. The roughly 2.600 employees assigned to the Terminal & Infrastructure segment deal with terminal-related activities and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations.

AWS FinOps Analyst

Position Summary

This is a global role and oversees end-to-end cloud estate at Hapag-Lloyd from cost perspective.  The role represents a great opportunity to join an organisation of significant scale that is transforming to a platform operating model and looking to modernise its traditional application landscape and needs a strong analyst to help on that journey.

An experienced leader with a proven track record of cloud usage data analytics, operational excellence, and FinOps functions for large organisations and driving cost efficiency will find this role appealing. 

Job Description

Cloud Cost Management & Optimization:

•       Collaborate across teams to manage cloud budgets, track spending, and identify cost savings.

•       Monitor AWS and Azure cloud usage, investigate anomalies, and work with the stakeholders to optimize resource utilization.

•       Design reports and KPIs to track cloud spend and budget performance.

•       Develop and implement cost optimization strategies (reserved instances, savings plans, etc.).

•       Automate and improve FinOps processes for efficiency.

Cloud Cost Analysis & Reporting:

•       Analyse cloud spend data to derive insights for strategic decisions.

•       Correlates monthly reporting on cloud costs across all cloud service providers to provide enterprise-wide summary and consumption vs. budget analyis.

•       Participate in business case development, cost modelling, and TCO calculations.

•       Crete cloud cost optimization frameworks and governance mechanisms.

•       Partner with service providers to understand and collect cloud spend data.

•       Generate reports on cloud consumption and identify cost optimization opportunities.

Cloud Governance & Collaboration:

•       Establish strong cost management practices for AWS and Azure.

•       Define and track cost performance KPIs.

•       Implement cost optimization governance strategies.

•       Collaborate with IT, Finance, and other teams to drive cost optimization.

•       Help define and implement tagging standards for resources.

•       Build strong relationships with internal and external partners.

•       Coordinates across the global organisation and with suppliers as required to build the visibility of the cost saving initiatives planned, ongoing or required.

 

Responsibily breakdown

•       Collaborate with stakeholders to manage cloud budgets, track spending, and identify cost-saving opportunities.

•       Coordinate periodic reviews across the organization and with suppliers to establish global visibility of planned, ongoing, and required cloud cost-saving initiatives.

•       Establish strong cost management practices for AWS and Azure, define and track cloud cost performance KPIs, and implement cost optimization governance strategies.

•       Monitor cloud usage, investigate anomalies, and work with stakeholders to optimize resource utilization for cost efficiency.

•       Design reports and KPIs to track cloud spend and performance, analyze cloud spend data to derive insights for strategic decisions.

•       Develop and implement cost optimization strategies like reserved instances, savings plans, etc.

•       Automate and improve Cloud FinOps processes for efficiency.

•       Participate in business case development, cost modeling, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculations for cloud resources.

•       Collaborate with IT, Finance, and other teams to drive cost optimization. Partner with service providers to understand and collect cloud spend data. Build strong relationships with internal and external partners.

•       Help define and implement tagging standards for cloud resources for better cost allocation and tracking.

 

Skills

•       Require 7-9 years of technology experience.

•       At least 3-4 years of experience in AWS Cloud Operations with large multinational organisations.

•       Thorough understanding of billing on cloud platforms (incl. impact of usage patterns on TCO).

•       AWS certification strongly preferred.

•       Experience in Shipping or Logistics would be an advantage.

•       Deep understanding of AWS, platforms and configurations and familiarity with workload usage/consumption patterns on cloud. 

•       Strong sense of ownership and accountability.

•       Strong drive for results

•       Competent IT analyst in multiple dimensions.

•       Experience with capacity forecasting, cloud cost optimization techniques, financial reporting, and workflow management.

•       Expert in FinOps and data analytics

•       Familiarity with monitoring and reporting tools/APIs. 

•       Thorough understanding of finance operations.

•       Relentless focus on service quality and cost

•       Proactive cost reduction, automation and improvements in process efficiency

Contact person

Sunaimalar Arunjunaiselvam HR Talent Acquisition Manager