Senior FinOps / Cloud Optimisation Analyst

Softcat plc; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

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Job summary

Softcat plc is building its Asset Intelligence team to help clients optimise cloud spend using FinOps principles. You will act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers, lead FinOps initiatives, and use leading cloud management tools to drive cost visibility and savings.

The role includes mentoring juniors and shaping long-term cloud cost strategies across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). We offer flexible working patterns, hybrid/remote options, and a comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• FinOps Practitioner Certification is required.
• Extensive experience with multi-cloud cost optimization.
• Experience with cloud cost management tooling (CloudHealth, Cloudability, Flexera, and native tools).
• Ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders within an enterprise customer.
• Mentor and support junior team members and drive continuous learning.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

FinOps Practitioner Certification

Multi-cloud cost optimization

Cloud cost management tooling

Relationship building

Mentoring team

Learning ownership

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Join ourAsset 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP. Certified in: AZ900,AWS Certified Practitioner, AZ104 (desired), AWS – Certified Solutions Architect (desired)

We'd love you to have

• FinOps Practitioner Certification is required (FinOps Certified Engineer 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.

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:

• 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.

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. Anyinformation 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/

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 authenticallyyouas possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.

Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Marlow, Newcastle, South Coast

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefits include:

Pension

Share incentive plan

Life Assurance

Holiday

Trips

Vouchers

Partner/family Benefits

Maternity, Paternity and Adoption support

Pension

Share incentive plan

Life Assurance

Holiday

Trips

Vouchers

Partner/family Benefits

Maternity, Paternity and Adoption support

Pension

Share incentive plan

Life Assurance

Holiday

Trips

Vouchers

Partner/family Benefits

Maternity, Paternity and Adoption support