Senior Finops / Cloud Optimisation Analyst

Softcat; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Softcat is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to lead cloud cost optimisation across AWS, Azure and GCP for enterprise clients. You will form trusted advisor relationships, set long-term goals, and drive FinOps adoption using leading tooling.

You will also mentor junior staff, report on cost visibility, and work to maximise the value customers obtain from the cloud in a hybrid, customer-facing environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive FinOps knowledge and practices across multi-cloud environments.
• FinOps Practitioner Certification required; Engineer certification desired.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure and GCP cost management.
• Proven ability to optimise cloud spend and communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Experience with CloudHealth, Cloudability, Flexera or equivalent tooling.
• Ability to build relationships with enterprise customers and mentor juniors.

Responsibilities

• Form trusted advisor relationships with enterprise scale clients.
• Act as a FinOps SME within Softcat.
• Set long-term goals with customers and drive FinOps adoption.
• Utilise cloud management tooling to leverage FinOps data.
• Provide detailed reporting on cost visibility and optimisation.
• Provide break/fix support for cloud management solutions via ServiceNow.
• Continuously improve FinOps processes and practices.
• Develop and drive the service forward with efficiency opportunities.
• Run 1-to-1s with team members and mentor junior staff.

Skills

FinOps knowledge

FinOps Certification

AWS

Azure

GCP

Cost optimisation

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Learning ownership

Tools

CloudHealth

Cloudability

Flexera

Native cloud tools

Job description

Join our Asset Intelligence team

The Asset Intelligence team provides a range of proactive services to assist clients with managing their estate and software procurement.

Success. The Softcat Way.

Softcat is a £1billion+ technology solutions business and trusted partner to names like Apple, Microsoft and Adobe. Offering a growing portfolio of services including software licensing, cyber security and IT infrastructure, we give our technical teams the tools and support to make exciting things happen. This is where to achieve more for your career.

You will work with customers to manage their cloud spend using the FinOps framework. You will work with several customers and will support them through regular reviews. Your goal is to help customers get the most value from The Cloud, improve and enhance the FinOps offering at Softcat, and to mentor and train the next generation of FinOps Analysts.

As Senior FinOps Analyst, you'll be responsible for:

• · Forming trusted advisor relationships with enterprise scale clients.
• · Acting as a SME for FinOps within Softcat.
• · Setting long-term goals with customers, developing strategies to achieve them, and leading initiatives to drive FinOps adoption across the organization.
• · Utilising industry-leading cloud management tooling and native tooling to proactively leverage FinOps data.
• · Providing detailed reporting around cost visibility and optimisation, ensuring that insights reach the right stakeholders on the client side.
• · Providing break/fix support around industry-leading cloud management solutions and leveraging the ticketing system (ServiceNow).
• · Continuously improving FinOps processes and practices, including identifying areas for improvement, implementing best practices, and staying current with industry trends and development
• · Developing and driving the service forward, proactively identifying efficiency opportunities within the team.
• · Running 1 to 1s with members of the team.
• · Mentoring junior staff.

We'd love you to have

• ·Extensive FinOps knowledge
• ·FinOps Practitioner Certification is required (FinOps Certified Engineer desired)
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP. Certified in: AZ900, AWS Certified Practitioner, AZ104 (desired), AWS – Certified Solutions Architect (desired)
• · Extensive experience around multi cloud cost optimisation.
• · Experience with cloud cost management tooling (CloudHealth, Cloudability, Flexera, and native tools).
• · Ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders within an enterprise customer.
• · Proactively use your own skillset and that of the team to solve problems and challenges whilst supporting more junior members of the team in the same way.
• · Ownership of your learning and development.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent

Work in a way that works for you

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Join us

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/

Looking ahead to future opportunities here at Softcat!

We're growing throughout the year and regularly have oppportunities within our FinOps team. Although we don't have a specific role available right now, we'd love to hear from talent individuals who may be a great fit for future positions.

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.