FinOps Cost Opt Practitioner - HCA Healthcare

Description

Introduction

Are you looking for a work environment where diversity and inclusion thrive? Submit your application for our FinOps Cost Opt Practitioner opening with HCA Healthcare today and find out what it truly means to be a part of the HCA Healthcare team.

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

We are seeking a FinOps Cost Opt Practitioner for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Position Summary

We are looking for the right candidate that has intensive experience working on cost analysis and optimization in large Cloud environments, with passion for data analysis, and is a team leader who can collaborate with others across the Enterprise. This role will help in identifying cost optimization opportunities by reviewing usage patterns, billing data, and cloud service utilization and also be responsible for developing and implementing cost optimization strategies to reduce the cost of cloud services while maintaining service quality and performance.

Major Responsibilities:

• Provide cost comparison, cost optimization and justification metrics for new cloud deployments and cloud migrations

• Lead teams through a time-sensitive project by structuring an optimization savings plan and manage the process through to completion

• Partner with internal Cloud Operations team as well as teams outside of Cloud (Data Engineering & Innovation, Enterprise Technology & Architecture, Enterprise Information Management) to guide strategy and decision-making

• Develop and generate periodic utilization reports to provide visibility into performance, capacity, and availability

• Review metrics to identify the optimal size and configurations of the cloud computing resources

• Communicate underutilized resources to the lines of business to keep them accountable so they eliminate waste and/or right-size their environment

• Execute and drive optimization saving results that total 3% of all Cloud spend

• Work with Finance and Business teams to align cloud spend with budgetary constraints

• Collaborate with Engineering and Architecture teams to develop cost-aware architecture blueprints for cloud applications that can be leveraged across the Enterprise

• Foster the adoption of cloud cost optimization activities and collaboration across the Organization

• Train and/or mentor other team members, and peers as appropriate

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders and ITG teams

• Excellent problem-solving skills by working independently and through leading outcomes for cross-functional teams

• Willingness and ability to adapt to rapid business and organizational change

• Proven analytical skills and experience with cost optimization

• Deep understanding of cloud costs and the various alternatives available

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering or Computer Science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification required

• 3+ years of experience in Information Technology required

• 3+ years of experience in Cloud technologies including IaaS/PaaS/SaaS deployments on Public Cloud (Azure/GCP) required

• 3+ years of experience in BI tooling, SQL queries, and organizing data in toolsets required

• 3+ years of experience in developing and implementing FinOps/Cloud Cost Optimization strategies for Azure and GCP services required

• 3+ years of experience in cloud-native and third-party cost optimization tools required

Licenses, Certifications, & Training:

•  GCP, Azure and/or AWS Cloud Engineer certification(s) preferred

•  FinOps or Total Business Management certification(s) preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors Required:

• Service and Quality Excellence: Ability to demonstrate an uncompromising commitment to delivering exceptional care to create an unmatched value proposition for our patients.

• Honor our Mission and Values: Ability to build trust and act with authenticity to cultivate a culture of integrity, inclusion, and mutual respect.

• Effective Decision Making: Ability to make timely, informed decisions that are in the best interest of our patients, employees, providers, community and HCA.

• Attain and Leverage Strategic Relationships: Ability to develop and strengthen collaborative relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to advance the care of our patients and the growth of HCA.

• Lead and Develop Others: Ability to lead others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives; provide meaningful coaching and mentoring to increase the capabilities of individuals and teams and drive employee engagement.

• Communicate with Impact: Ability to deliver information in a clear, concise, and compelling manner to effectively engage others and achieve desired results.

• Achieve Success through Change: Ability to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation, remove barriers and resistance, and enable desired behaviors.

• Drive Execution and Financial Results: Ability to commit to the success and financial wellbeing of HCA by challenging others to excel and hold themselves and others accountable for achieving results.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Across HCA Healthcare’s more than 2,000 sites of care, our nurses and colleagues have a positive impact on patients, communities and healthcare.
Together, we uplift and elevate our purpose to give people a healthier tomorrow."- Jane Englebright, PhD, RN CENP, FAAN
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our FinOps Cost Opt Practitioner opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.