Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer (Remote)

Pearson; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to drive cloud cost analytics and FinOps initiatives across multi-cloud environments. You will collaborate with global teams to design data-driven insights, forecast hosting costs, and optimize spend through automation and governance in a dynamic infrastructure setting.

Responsibilities include building month-end/quarter-end reports, defining KPIs, and using Agile practices to deliver impactful cost-saving solutions.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or master's degree in computer science, management information systems, data analytics.
• +5 years of experience in IT (Business Analytics, Project Management, IT Finance)

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

Financial principles

Business analytics

Advanced Excel

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

IBM Cloud

Cross-functional teamwork

Data storytelling

Education

CS / MIS / Data Analytics degree

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to drive cloud cost analytics and FinOps initiatives across multi-cloud environments. You will collaborate with global teams to design data-driven insights, forecast hosting costs, and optimize spend through automation and governance in a dynamic infrastructure setting.

Responsibilities include building month-end/quarter-end reports, defining KPIs, and using Agile practices to deliver impactful cost-saving solutions.