DevOps FinOps

As FinOps, you are responsible for:

• Drive the Cloud FinOps function within the BU EUC team
• Maintain a good understanding of the cloud provider pricing models and implements guidelines, processes, and governance to manage cloud costs and identify and achieve cost reduction where appropriate
• Strategize and implement timely, transparent & accurate cloud consumption costing information
• Lead the forecasting effort closely working with the DevOps for monthly cloud consumption
• Contribute to the cloud consumption budgeting for the DevOps
• Lead the decision making efforts for cost optimization
• Implement the cost alert framework for any threshold spikes in liaison with the DevOps, drive regular monitoring
• Leverage cost optimization opportunities
• Embed business performance analysis and support decision through financial analysis and recommendations, resulting from cloud consumption reporting
  • Concrete example : on a (at least) monthly basis, review the cost, recommendations, opportunities, using embedded (Azure Cost Analysis, AWS Cost Explorer, ) or global (Power BI) tools to reduce or optimize the cost.
• Manage spend and benefits tracking
• Mobilize and implement guardrails to optimize cost performance and enforce these within the organization (/ team)
• Forecast and plan cloud costing based on cloud consumption reports and make recommendations

As DevOps, you will be responsible for:

• Support the owner of EUC from a technical point of view.
• Responsible for the infrastructure part.
• He has the short- and long-term views on their evolution in terms of quality, automation, costs, safety and technology
• Define and set up IT environments in an automated way according to the needs
• Contribute to the definition, the implementation, and the maintenance of the EUC solutions infra in his technical domain considering quality, costs, and security
• Cooperates with architects to keep Building Permits accurate and up to date in SPARX
• Define, build, and support the daily operations as well as the maintenance activities of the various platforms related to the products of the supported domains
• Participate actively in the exchange of ideas within the DevOps community
• Create and maintain documentation of the EUC infrastructure of the supported domain
• Proactively and actively ensure a secure, available, and performing environment
• Set up and supervise monitoring and backup systems according to the platforms used (DR)
• Define, maintain, and explain the processes in his technical field; continually research and implement improvements
• Participate in technical POCs and be consulted for his/her expertise
• Understand, apply, and spread security rules (DevSecOps)
• Exercise the role of Ops engineer and be able to also take on other roles (DevSecFin*Ops)
• Ensure continuity and cohesion in the installations and maintenance of the environments and applications of the BU EUC team
• Be autonomous the point of contact in case of incident resolution escalation, problem management, release upgrades

Skills required

• Very good skills in Cloud Azure, DevOps, FinOps and SecOps
• Minimum 6 years of experience
• Expert in DevOps & Finops for Coaching new DevOps on specific technlogies (R.P., ESG, )
• English + one national language (FR or NL)