ESR Healthcare
Hiring Cloud FinOps Analyst AWS SQL Python Sterling Silver Spring, MD ref
ESR Healthcare, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, 20900
Hiring Cloud FinOps AnalystLocation: Silver Spring, MD
Skills:
AWS Cloud services, Cost Explorer, AWS billing semantics, FinOps, SQL, Python, Raw Data, Power BI
Experience Level:
Associate
Experience Required:
5 Years
Education Level:
Bachelor’s degree
Job Function:
Information Technology
Industry:
Entertainment
Pay Rate:
View hourly pay rate
Total Positions:
1
Relocation Assistance:
No
Visa:
Only US citizens and Green Card holders
Job Summary:The Cloud FinOps Analyst reports into the Cloud Cost Management (Cloud FinOps) team within Discovery’s GT&O group. The team is responsible for overseeing the global and multi-cloud footprint for Discovery Inc with a critical mission focused on promoting, governing, and implementing economical consumption. The Cloud FinOps Analyst will work with a wide range of stakeholders to promote a culture of cost accountability and awareness for Discovery’s cloud consumption. Key areas the role will support include financial modeling, budgeting and forecasting, consumption analysis and KPIs, showback and analytics, and capacity management.
Responsibilities:
Support the cloud monthly budget and forecast process in managing consumption, showback, and savings in collaboration with accounting, finance, and technical owners.
Support stakeholders in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap and budgeted forecast.
Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable.
Collaborate with Cost Optimization Engineers to track resource utilization in order to define and execute relevant cloud commitment plans and to define strategies to re-purpose freed up capacity.
Design, develop, and maintain reports and KPIs that provide detailed usage statistics of resources across the multi-cloud landscape.
Evaluate and investigate data patterns to derive insightful knowledge that can inform strategic and operational decisions.
Participate in business case development, cost modeling, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and trade-off exercises.
Participate in automating, integrating, and maturing the Cloud FinOps team’s processes and data.
Qualifications:
Basic knowledge of AWS Cloud services, Cost Explorer, and AWS billing semantics (CUR report, AWS Invoice process, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, etc.).
Knowledge of core Finance principles and basic understanding of the corporate accounting process (forecast, invoicing, chargeback, accruals, etc.).
Experience in developing cost trade-off studies, cost models, and business cases.
Ability to navigate, cleanse, and integrate raw data to develop dynamic dashboards using data analytics tools such as Power BI, Google Big Query, GSuite products, etc.
Aptitude to learn and understand new concepts and technologies to become an expert in the field.
Deep analytical, critical thinking, and quantitative skills.
Strong organizational and project management skills.
Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Team player and self-driven with a transformation mindset. Able to work across functionally diverse teams.
Ability to operate successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization.
+2 years of relevant work experience in a large multi-million cloud environment.
Preferred Skills:
Possess a FinOps certification, or ability to attain within 6 months.
Possess an AWS Practitioner certification or ability to attain within 12 months.
Knowledge of GCP and Azure cloud services and billing semantics.
Knowledge in SQL queries, Amazon Aurora, and PostgreSQL.
Experience in navigating and managing cloud CMDB.
Past experience working for a large Media company or familiarity with the Media value chain.
Experience working closely with external IT vendors.
BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Finance or equivalent; MS preferred.
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Skills:
AWS Cloud services, Cost Explorer, AWS billing semantics, FinOps, SQL, Python, Raw Data, Power BI
Experience Level:
Associate
Experience Required:
5 Years
Education Level:
Bachelor’s degree
Job Function:
Information Technology
Industry:
Entertainment
Pay Rate:
View hourly pay rate
Total Positions:
1
Relocation Assistance:
No
Visa:
Only US citizens and Green Card holders
Job Summary:The Cloud FinOps Analyst reports into the Cloud Cost Management (Cloud FinOps) team within Discovery’s GT&O group. The team is responsible for overseeing the global and multi-cloud footprint for Discovery Inc with a critical mission focused on promoting, governing, and implementing economical consumption. The Cloud FinOps Analyst will work with a wide range of stakeholders to promote a culture of cost accountability and awareness for Discovery’s cloud consumption. Key areas the role will support include financial modeling, budgeting and forecasting, consumption analysis and KPIs, showback and analytics, and capacity management.
Responsibilities:
Support the cloud monthly budget and forecast process in managing consumption, showback, and savings in collaboration with accounting, finance, and technical owners.
Support stakeholders in understanding their cloud spend based on their business roadmap and budgeted forecast.
Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable.
Collaborate with Cost Optimization Engineers to track resource utilization in order to define and execute relevant cloud commitment plans and to define strategies to re-purpose freed up capacity.
Design, develop, and maintain reports and KPIs that provide detailed usage statistics of resources across the multi-cloud landscape.
Evaluate and investigate data patterns to derive insightful knowledge that can inform strategic and operational decisions.
Participate in business case development, cost modeling, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and trade-off exercises.
Participate in automating, integrating, and maturing the Cloud FinOps team’s processes and data.
Qualifications:
Basic knowledge of AWS Cloud services, Cost Explorer, and AWS billing semantics (CUR report, AWS Invoice process, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, etc.).
Knowledge of core Finance principles and basic understanding of the corporate accounting process (forecast, invoicing, chargeback, accruals, etc.).
Experience in developing cost trade-off studies, cost models, and business cases.
Ability to navigate, cleanse, and integrate raw data to develop dynamic dashboards using data analytics tools such as Power BI, Google Big Query, GSuite products, etc.
Aptitude to learn and understand new concepts and technologies to become an expert in the field.
Deep analytical, critical thinking, and quantitative skills.
Strong organizational and project management skills.
Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Team player and self-driven with a transformation mindset. Able to work across functionally diverse teams.
Ability to operate successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization.
+2 years of relevant work experience in a large multi-million cloud environment.
Preferred Skills:
Possess a FinOps certification, or ability to attain within 6 months.
Possess an AWS Practitioner certification or ability to attain within 12 months.
Knowledge of GCP and Azure cloud services and billing semantics.
Knowledge in SQL queries, Amazon Aurora, and PostgreSQL.
Experience in navigating and managing cloud CMDB.
Past experience working for a large Media company or familiarity with the Media value chain.
Experience working closely with external IT vendors.
BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Finance or equivalent; MS preferred.
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