Lead Specialist Cloud FinOps

Pearson; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth Opportunities for AWS, Azure cross-training

Support for FinOps Foundation certification

Job summary

Pearson is hiring a Lead Specialist Cloud FinOps based in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will join the Cloud FinOps team and be responsible for cloud cost transparency and optimization. Your work will involve producing reports, analyzing cloud hosting costs, and collaborating with global teams.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in IT and a degree in a related field. Skills in Python, PowerBI, and cloud platforms like Azure or AWS are essential for this position. Growth opportunities include cross-training on various cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or master's degree in computer science, management information systems, data analytics or similar.
• 7+ years of experience in IT (Business Analytics, Project Management or Technology Finance).

Responsibilities

• Produce reports for multi-cloud platforms that can be shared with Management and Senior Leaders.
• Work with cross-functional teams globally, assimilating requirements and driving results.
• Support the FinOps team with setting goals/KPIs and modeling.
• Partner with Cloud Governance to map data process flows.
• Analyze and forecast cloud hosting costs.
• Provide cost optimization recommendations.
• Create and maintain month-end and quarter-end reports.
• Use Agile methodology for planning and execution.
• Use tools and technology for data-driven decisions.
• Collect requirements for targeted automation projects.

Job description

Job Title: Lead Specialist Cloud FinOps

Work Location: Bangalore, India (Hybrid)

Working Shift: USA (6:30 PM IST to 3:30 AM IST)

As a Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer for Pearson, you will join Pearson's Cloud FinOps team, working as part of a global Centre of Excellence focused on cloud cost transparency and optimisation across a multi-cloud estate. You will be responsible for collecting and analyzing data to provide Cloud financial insights critical to our success as a business.

Responsibilities

• Produce reports for multi-cloud platforms that can be shared with and actioned by Management and Senior Leaders.
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams globally, assimilating requirements, driving results in the form of data insights and building strategic partnerships.
• Support the FinOps team with setting goals/KPIs, retrieving data and modeling
• Partner with our Cloud Governance team to map data process flows, allowing FinOps to gather a single source of data.
• Analyze and forecast cloud hosting costs.
• Provide cost optimization recommendations.
• Create and maintain month-end and quarter-end reports.
• Use Agile methodology for planning and execution.
• Use tools and technology to make data driven decisions.
• Collecting requirements for targeted automation projects; exploring potential solutions based on fit, up-skilling need, team skillsets, cost, and current and long-term strategies

Required Skills

• Python Data Analytics Skills
• PowerBI Development
• Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• Cloud billing and cost management tools
• FinOps commitment plan strategies such as enterprise-wide discount programs and commitment plans (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Sustained Use/Committed Use Discounts)
• Agentic AI Experience
• Advanced Excel
• Financial principles and business analytics.
• Cross-functional and global team collaboration
• Self-starter who can also work independently and with a team to deliver superior customer service
• Understanding of applications development environment, database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints.
• Ability to analyze and produce meaningful insights from large datasets
• Strong analytical background with an aptitude for understanding technology
• Nice to have skills
• Experience with 3rd party cloud cost optimization tools like Cloudability
• Understanding of database and big data management capabilities and constraints like RDBMS, NoSQL, Datalake, etc.
• Experience managing or developing automation with object-oriented programming languages like Java or Python and understanding of appropriate use
• Experience with the AWS Cloud platform and leveraging appropriate AWS services (e.g. S3, Lambda) as part of development of automated solutions.
• Experience leveraging REST API for extracting and/or posting data
• Understanding of building and deploying Agentic solutions
• Azure, GCP or AWS Certifications

Qualifications

• Education (or equivalent work experience): Undergraduate or master's degree in computer science, management information systems, data analytics or similar
• +7 years of experience in IT (Business Analytics, Project Management or Technology Finance)

Growth Opportunities exist for cross-training on AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms, and support for FinOps Foundation certification.

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