Cloud Finops Consultant - Danta Technologies

We are seeking a Cloud FinOps Consultant in Frisco, TX. The position is available for local candidates who are expected to work onsite. However, if a candidate is not willing to work onsite, remote options can be considered, though the client prefers onsite candidates.

Summary:
The client is looking for a Cloud FinOps resource who can act as a bridge between business, engineering, and finance teams to enable data-driven decisions for optimizing cloud usage and maximizing business value. This role is centered on establishing a FinOps culture, providing cloud cost management best practices, and helping teams understand and use cloud resources efficiently.

The ideal candidate should have deep technical knowledge of Azure (primary) and AWS (secondary) and should focus on activities like rightsizing, workload management, anomaly detection, and maintaining a tagging strategy. Additionally, the role involves creating benchmarks, developing cloud budgets, and ensuring transparency in cloud costs.

Job Description:

Assist FinOps practitioner bridge business, engineering and finance teams, enabling evidence-based decisions in near-real time to help optimize cloud use and increase business value. Focus on establishing a FinOps culture and enabling stakeholder teams by demonstrating a working knowledge of the Principles and Capabilities of the FinOps Framework, a prescriptive model of actions and best practices. Deep technical expertise in Azure primarily and AWS secondly.

Helping Engineering teams adopting FinOps use cost and resource use as a metric similarly to other performance metrics. Consider the efficient design and use of resources as they architect, design, and build IT systems in the cloud. Responsible for their cloud use, and perform activities like selecting appropriate resource locations, rightsizing (the process of resizing cloud resources to better match the workload requirements), workload management (only running resources when they are needed), removing unused resources, and monitoring for spending anomalies.

Objectives:

1. Cultural change flag bearer
2. Create cloud cost management best practices
3. Create benchmarks for teams to use
4. Create visibility and transparency to cloud cost
5. Create or inform cloud budgets and forecasts
6. Help create and maintain FinOps Strategies

Capabilities:

1. Maintain tagging strategy
2. Anomaly Management
3. Architecting for Cloud
4. Benchmarking
5. Budgeting & allocations
6. Cloud Policy and Governance
7. Cloud Sustainability
8. Data ingestion
9. FinOps Assessment
10. Workload Optimization
11. Rate Optimization
12. Reporting Analytics and Unit Economics
13. Understanding of Licensing and SaaS
14. Forecasting & Planning and estimation

Notes:- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits: Danta offers a compensation package to all W2 employees that are competitive in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, the option to elect healthcare insurance (Dental, Medical, Vision), Major holidays and Paid sick leave as per state law.

The rate/ Salary range is dependent on numerous factors including Qualification, Experience and Location.