Cloud FinOps Engineer

at  Vattenfall

Company Description
Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 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

DO YOU FIND SATISFACTION IN UNDERSTANDING HOW YOUR TECHNICAL EXPERTISE ENABLES OUR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS AND BY THAT BE ABLE TO POWER CLIMATE SMARTER LIVING?

We are seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer to join our team and lead cloud financial services to our wide customers including FinOps Frameworks, best practices, cost optimization sessions, tools usage and more. If you are passionate about cloud, excel in analytics, we’d love to hear from you.
As a Cloud FinOps Engineer, you will be responsible for driving cloud cost optimization initiatives, providing strategic insights, and collaborating with customers to achieve significant cost savings while maintaining top-notch cloud performance. Your role will encompass a deep understanding of cloud architecture aspects related to cost optimization and the ability to articulate findings in assess and recommendation documents.

In the role as Cloud FinOps Engineer 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 FinOps engineer your major responsibility is driven to optimize cloud cost.

Besides your tasks and Resbonsibilities will be:

• Lead cloud cost optimization sessions by analysing existing cloud infrastructure and identifying opportunities for cost reduction
• Collaborate with customers to understand their specific cloud cost challenges, requirements, and goals. Provide tailored solutions to address their unique needs
• Utilize your strong analytical skills to review cloud consumption data, identify inefficiencies, and recommend optimization strategies.
• Create and maintain cloud cost models and pricing scenarios to support optimization efforts
• Produce high-quality, formal documents and reports to present findings, recommendations, and cost optimization plans to customers
• Implement and maintain cloud cost monitoring tools and dashboards to track and report on cost savings. Knowledge of Databricks is a pre, this is the backend of our billing report
• Understand cloud architecture aspects that influence cost, such as resource provisioning, scaling, and resource utilization
• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging cloud technologies to ensure our cost optimization strategies align with the latest trends