Kuehne+Nagel is driving a holistic approach to Business Value Optimization and Realization by leveraging public and private cloud services.Cloud Financial Management (CFM) constitutes one key axis in our global cloud value framework. It includes FinOps and DevFinOps activities to support our product development teams and stakeholder management.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

• Demonstrable technical knowledge of all AWS services including cost explorer, quicksight dashboard creation, operation and query, AWS budgets is must. Google Cloud or MS Azure is good to have.
• Good understanding of cloud concepts such as compute services, elasticity, tagging, billing, pricing models, discount options, and cost reporting tools.
• Knowledge of core financial concepts in cloud computing such as cost showback, cost attribution, forecasting, and amortization.
• Ability to process and analyze large amounts of financial data using standard tools and query languages.
• MS Excel skills for integration and pick-up of existing financial reporting data and processes.
• Communication and presentation skills for sharing of insights and relay into decision making.
• Experience in writing Policy-as-Code and integration into delivery pipelines and in operational monitoring / controls.
• Sound understanding of software architecture patterns and implementation techniques for cost-effective solutions.
• Experience in consulting and in onboarding / coaching of devops teams into CFM activities.

YOUR ROLE

You will join as a member of our newly formed Cloud Value Engineering team (CVE) in our IT hub in Porto. The team is part of our global CCoE / Cloud Business Office function, KN Cloud Office.From Porto, you will contribute to our distributed team across European IT hubs in Hamburg (Germany) and Tallinn (Estonia), as well as digital product development, operational services, and stakeholder management.Please note: The details below refer to the aggregated responsibilities and skills of the CVE team in the CFM domain. These are distributed among individual team members according to personal profile and experience. As a common characteristic, CVE team members are driving towards embedding individual aspects of CFM, such as infrastructure-related cost, into product-level TCO optimization and business value drivers for leverage in product innovation, application modernization, and application operation. In this way, the CVE team design extends traditional IT Controlling functions in terms of holistic scope and proactive financial / cost optimization.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyze cloud service spend at cross-application and at individual application scopes leveraging common CFM methods and tooling (such as resource tagging, CFM dashboards and automated cost advisors provided by AWS, GCP and MS Azure).
• Collaborate closely with KN finance team, KN infrastructure team and AWS account team to refine methods and tooling and to integrate data flow with KN financial management.
• Identifiy cost optimization potentials and create complementing input for decision makers at corresponding scope.
• Contribute in building the CFM team as a trusted advisor among KN stakeholders by demonstrating engineering principles and mindset (such as comprehensibility of outcomes, data analysis and feedback metrics, consistency in model building, effective problem solving / optimization, effective communication with product owners, with tech leads and with KN finance stakeholders).
• Monitor cloud spend day to day and prepare weekly & monthly reports for review of Cloud spend.
• Provide expert knowledge of cloud cost optimization strategies (e.g. rightsizing, waste management) and track the progress and success of Cost Optimization activities.
• Advise and support operational teams in implementation of CFM guardrails and controls.
• Advise and support product development teams in execution of FinOps / DevFinOps activities and in cost-optimization of solution designs in product development and operation (in close collaboration with cloud architecture team).
• Contribute in assembling the big picture of cloud value engineering from CFM perspective and in developing consistent model and advanced strategies from it.