Cloud Engineer - FinOps

at  Vattenfall

Company Description
Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.
Job Description

WHO ARE YOU?

We are looking for a specialist who is willing to develop to T-shaped cloud specialist and has a background financial optimisation for cloud services.

Next to this you bring:

• An academic Degree in IT, engineering, science or mathematics
• Interested in new technologies and a fast learner
• Experience in a large international environment
• Deep understanding with cloud costs and the various alternatives
• Experience in FinOps projects in larger enterprises
• Very good understanding of billing on cloud platforms (incl. impact of usage patterns on TCO)
• Good understanding of licences models
• Be able to work under pressure
• Ability to translate complicated technical matters into simple understandable language
• Proficient English communications skills (other local Vattenfall languages are a plus)
• This job requires some international travel
• You need to be able to work independently in an international team that meets more virtually than physically

Additional Information

In the role as Cloud Engineer - FinOps you will be working in a team that is very close to business but also to Agile IT and Core IT. To succeed in this role, it is important that you have the ability to bridge the gap between our development, operation and financial teams.
You are not only an expert technician but you also have social competence and understands the need of the business. You always challenge yourself and others how to improve and develop and are open for suggestions from others but can also give your own.
As our Cloud Engineer - FinOps your major responsibility is driven to optimize cloud cost.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

• Scripting
• Writing scripts in Powershell, Json with a finops focus
• Automation and orchestration
• Creating and maintaining automation based on scripts using e.g. REST
• Increase usage of schedule shutdown to save cost
• Financial analyses
• Analyse and adjust the usage of reservations
• Analyse and consult the right-sizing of Azure resources
• Active contact with azure usage about correct sizing and license usage
• Finding license optimization and drive implementation together with software centre
• Improving charge out process and increase cost allocation accuracy
• Monitor the development of cost savings and efficacy increasing features provided by Microsoft and possible 3rd party
• Project support to optimize cost during design phase