Roles and Responsibilities

• Identify optimization opportunities to maximize ROI on cloud resources and work towards making our cloud infrastructure cost-efficient
• Provide advice on architecture and resource optimization, waste management, capacity management, KPI development and maintenance, tagging, and alert enhancements.
• Develop, modify, and maintain cloud costs and utilization reports, dashboards, and cost usage alerting and forecasting.
• Monitor and identify increases in Cloud costs and other usage anomalies and be able to investigate the source of these increases.
• Recommend savings opportunities related to cloud commitment purchases (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Committed/Sustained use) and track utilization of these commitments.
• Partake in creating, maturing, automating, and governing Cost Optimization policies and best practices.

Qualifications/Skills

• 8+ years experience working as a cloud engineer, developer, or architect.
• Experience in core cloud services architecture and cost mechanics (Compute, containers, database, serverless, storage..etc).
• Advanced understanding of AWS cloud platform, Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage report, and services.
• Knowledge of GCP cloud platform, console, and services.
• Experience in DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, and IaC, and expertise with Linux and Windows stacks.
• Experience in cost management tactics such as enterprise-wide discount programs and commitment plans (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Sustained Use/Committed Use Discounts,..)
• Ability to connect various services using related product APIs.

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