Analyst - Cloud Cost Optimization

Description & Requirements

The Cloud Cost Optimization Analyst ensures cloud activities are undertaken in a fiscally responsible manner, partnering with stakeholders and engineering teams to maximize savings and optimize cloud environments.

We're looking for a data-driven analyst to join our team and become the advocate of responsible cloud spending.

This person will play a critical role in optimizing our multi-cloud environment, root out wasteful spending, track optimizations to completion, and ensure sustained cost reductions.

This role also entails delivering cost analysis/usage reports to key personnel, ensuring budget compliance and transparency.

A combination of the ability to understand numbers, analyze data and communicate optimally is critical for success in this role.
Per contract requirements, staff working on this project must be a US Citizen
This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Analyze, recommend, implement, and refine discount strategies for maximum savings.

- Analyze complex, multi-cloud cost and performance datasets to facilitate cost and rate optimization.

- Identify optimization opportunities and reduce waste, tracking opportunities to resolution.

- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and their teams to support them with FinOps tools, processes, and data.

- Partner with cloud architects and engineers to identify, define, and implement cost optimization opportunities at the project and platform level.

- Provide cost/analysis/usage reports to key personnel on a set cadence.

- Conduct training and awareness programs for teams to enhance cloud cost consciousness and encourage responsible cloud usage.

- Create accurate forecasting of cloud spend.

- Stay updated with the latest cloud cost management best practices, industry trends, and compliance requirements and drive a culture of cost accountability.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Analyze, recommend, implement, and refine discount strategies for maximum savings.

- Analyze complex, multi-cloud cost and performance datasets to facilitate cost and rate optimization.

- Identify optimization opportunities and reduce waste, tracking opportunities to resolution.

- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and their teams to support them with FinOps tools, processes, and data.

- Partner with cloud architects and engineers to identify, define, and implement cost optimization opportunities at the project and platform level.

- Provide cost/analysis/usage reports to key personnel on a set cadence.

- Conduct training and awareness programs for teams to enhance cloud cost consciousness and encourage responsible cloud usage.

- Create accurate forecasting of cloud spend.

- Stay updated with the latest cloud cost management best practices, industry trends, and compliance requirements.

- Drive a culture of cost accountability.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's Deg...