(Senior) Cloud FinOps Engineer - AWS d/f/m
Location(s):
Swindon, Wiltshire, GB, SN5 6PB Essen, NW, DE, 45141
RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
To start as soon as possible, full time / part time, permanent
Functional area: IT / Digital
Remuneration: tariff/non-tariff
Department Insights
Join our AWS Platform team as a Senior FinOps Analyst/Engineer. You will be part of a dynamic team that maintains and develops the AWS platform for RWE. We take pride in our work, motivated to help our customers and each other. We value innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
The role
As a Cloud FinOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in driving financial efficiency and transparency across our AWS platform, directly contributing to our company's growth and sustainability. You will help build out the RWE Supply & Trading (RWEST) FinOps practice on the foundations already in place, focusing on rate and workload optimization, dashboarding, and documentation. We aim to elevate the FinOps culture within the organization, creating KPIs to enable benchmarking and assisting teams with budgeting and forecasting.
Your responsibilities
FinOps Culture and Education
- Building and maintaining the FinOps culture in RWEST
- Creating educational material to help RWEST understand and maximize FinOps
- Defining FinOps best practices
Financial Monitoring and Reporting
- Implementing financial monitoring to detect anomalies
- Creating reports as required by both App and finance teams
Collaboration and Support
- Building relationships with both the App and finance teams to help them understand cloud spend
- Promoting transparency, openness, and knowledge sharing within the team
- Providing support to other team members and troubleshooting day-to-day issues
Your powerful skills
- Strong understanding of the FinOps framework and its capabilities
- Proven track record of cost savings - preferably with AWS
- Experience with purchasing Reserved Instances and Saving Plans - AWS
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with finance, operations, and application teams
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to analyse cloud usage data and identify cost optimization opportunities, including budgeting and forecasting
- Knowledge of pricing mechanisms and cost models for cloud services
- Proactively staying updated with industry trends and innovations
Advantageous, but Not Required
- FinOps certification
- Membership in the FinOps Foundation
- AWS CUDOS dashboards and or AWS QuickSight
- Experience with IaC (Terraform)
- Experience with Git, managing code check-in, code reviews, and maintaining a standardized repository structure
- Experience creating and managing cloud-native CI/CD pipelines
- Academic degree in mathematics, computer science, natural science, or a comparable field
- Proficiency in spoken and written German
Benefits you can rely on
- Modern company culture with flat hierarchies and strong team spirit
- Diverse team with opportunities for continuous learning and development
- Innovative environment in a dynamic, growing energy market
- High potential DevOps team with strong management support
- Agile setup working on impactful projects
- Excellent compensation and benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, and performance bonuses
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