Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer (Remote)

Pearson; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to drive FinOps-driven cloud cost analysis across multi-cloud environments. You will develop reports, forecast costs, and partner with governance and analytics teams to optimize spending.

Join a global team delivering data-powered insights for cloud cost management, using Agile practices and advanced Excel to model budgets and drive strategic decisions. This remote-friendly role offers a competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Self-starter who can also work with a team to deliver superior customer service.
• Knowledge of financial principles and business analytics.
• Ability to work with multiple internal teams to provide the best experience for our customers
• 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
• Experience with advanced Excel functions required
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, IBMCloud, etc.

Responsibilities

• Produce insightful reports for multi-cloud platforms that can be shared with and actioned by Management.
• 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 heavily with our Cloud Governance team to map data process flows, allowing FinOps to gather a single source of data source.
• 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

Skills

Self-starter

Teamwork

Finance principles

Business analytics

Cross-functional teams

Data insights

Advanced Excel

Cloud platforms

Education

B.S./M.S. in CS/MIS/Analytics

+5 years IT experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

IBM Cloud

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to drive FinOps-driven cloud cost analysis across multi-cloud environments. You will develop reports, forecast costs, and partner with governance and analytics teams to optimize spending.

Join a global team delivering data-powered insights for cloud cost management, using Agile practices and advanced Excel to model budgets and drive strategic decisions. This remote-friendly role offers a competitive salary and benefits.