Role Description:
About Us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

• Hands on experience in optimizing spend across Public Cloud (predominantly AWS, but additional GCP experience is valuable)
• Experience and working knowledge of native cloud cost management tooling and/or third-party cloud management or optimization platforms (e.g. AWS Cost explorer, Cloudhealth, Apptio/Cloudability, etc.)
• Strong communication skills, demonstrated by delivering clear, well-structured, and relevant information tailored to the target audience.
• Prior experience / exposure to working in technical operations teams, and/or DevOps, Cloud Operations teams.
• Nice to have: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner / FinOps Certified Cloud Practitioner certification

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

The FinOps cloud Analsyt at Booking.com will be responsible for analyzing and managing our cloud expenditures, identifying cost-saving opportunities, collaborating with engineering leads to implement optimizations, supporting day to day operational tasks related to our internal customer and delivering comprehensive reports to FinOps leadership.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Regularly analyze our cloud infrastructure spending and identify cost drivers and proactively report on anomalies which are going to impact the cost.
• Collaboration with engineering teams to implement cost optimizations recommendations.
• Work closely with FinOps product managers to deliver cloud budgets & reports, presenting them to finance and engineering leaders for approval.
• Support our internal customers to get effective cloud forecasting through customized pricing calculators and identifying cost anomalies and mitigating the risk through cost optimization opportunities.
• Supporting FinOps documentation in a standard format which can be leveraged by the product team.
• Resolving & logging queries raised by teams through our internal communication channels.