(Senior) Cloud FinOps Engineer - AWS d/f/m

RWE; Swindon; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company located in Swindon is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst/Engineer to enhance financial efficiency within their AWS platform. This role involves optimizing costs, creating educational materials, and ensuring financial transparency. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in FinOps and AWS, complemented by excellent analytical and communication skills. Competitive compensation and a modern work environment are offered.

Benefits

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Performance bonuses

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with purchasing Reserved Instances and Savings Plans in AWS.
• Proactively staying updated with industry trends and innovations.
• Knowledge of pricing mechanisms for cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Drive financial efficiency and transparency across the AWS platform.
• Create reports for App and finance teams.
• Build and maintain the FinOps culture in RWEST.

Skills

Strong understanding of the FinOps framework

Proven track record of cost savings with AWS

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Education

Academic degree in mathematics, computer science, natural science

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Git

Job description

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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

Optimization & Analytics

• Rate and workload optimization
• RI and SP recommendations and purchases
• Analysis of usage costs to identify trends and potential savings
• Identifying and combining data sources to enhance findings and recommendations

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

rwe.com/career
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RWE Supply & Trading is the interface between RWE and the energy markets around the world. Approximately 2000 employees from over 70 different countries trade electricity, gas, commodities and CO2 emission allowances. The trading entity also ensures the commercial optimisation of RWE's power plant dispatch and markets electricity from RWE.

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