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.
- Create 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.
Responsibility 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