Sr. Cloud FinOps Analyst

at  Sun Life

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You’ll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you’ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for a hands-on technical project manager and FinOps enthusiastic who can meet us at the crossroads of business practicality and technical data savvy. You will help clients harness the value of their data and implement best practices for FinOps/cloud optimization by collaborating closely with applications & engineering teams. You will work in a fast environment with technology with various internal teams to drive large-scale cloud adoption and will be an integral part of Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCOE).
In this dynamic role you will support cloud cost management and governance across the enterprise by building and maintaining business intelligence dashboards, integrating cloud FinOps technology solutions via APIs, building data pipelines, partnering with engineering teams cost-optimized solutions, and databases for reporting and analysis purposes across cloud vendor(s) to enable cloud consumption tracking & cost conscious culture, maximize cloud discounts, allocate cloud spending, forecasting, budgeting, and migration business case development.

WHAT WILL YOU DO:

• Analyze cloud data to identify cost optimization and usage opportunities and create optimization recommendations; review those recommendations with clients
• Monitor and report on cloud usage against budget and forecast, explore trends in cloud spend
• Create reports, dashboards and alerts to track spending and usage trends and the potential impact of cost optimizations
• Closely partner with Engineering teams to understand Cloud business processes and cost drivers
• Enabling better financial decision-making through promoting and demonstrating cloud financial information through Power Query, PowerBI / QuickSight / Tableau reports and Apptio Cloudability
• Where needed, assist in implementing, maintaining and governing the FinOps service
• Work with the technical teams (both internal and client) to ensure proper tagging and allocation of cloud resources for accurate cost tracking and reporting (both initially and ongoing)
• Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
• Develop data pipelines, visualizations, metrics, and enterprise dashboards via automated solutions to centralize import information for Cloud consumption within FinOps and application/development teams.
• Collaborate with IT organization on IT Total Cost of Ownership, financial metrics, and cost transparency initiatives.
• Analyze, recommend & implement process improvement opportunities that enhance the efficiency of the IT Finance processes while also increasing the informative value of the content provided to IT Senior Management.
• Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data for IT business leaders.
• Own analysis and recommendations based on Cloud consumption and cost data directly from CSP sources ( Cloud ), as well as Cloud data from internally developed DBs/Tools
• Monitor cloud resources efficiency across accounts, report violations, develop recommendations, and collaborate with teams to implement improvements
• Participate in deep analysis relating cloud capacity commitment purchases to optimize spend and reduce on demand usage where possible
• Develop and create cost and usage reports with cost reduction and performance improvement recommendations such as Reserved instance, Spot, or commitment-based purchases.
• Aid the IT Finance team for monthly Cloud Consumption reporting
• Provide Cost Center Owners actionable recommendations on cloud spend to optimize their cloud spend
• Ensure tagging compliance are improved & data feeds to automated dashboards are always available

YOUR CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive engagement with Workload Owners, execute on optimization and efficiency work efforts to achieve annual goals and target KPIs
• Support analysis and execution for financial engineering, support rightsizing compute & database resources optimizations, implementing resource scheduling, developing and implementing Automation and Orchestration solutions
• Collaborate and lead discussions with architects and engineers relating better resource setup, configuration, and usage
• Perform specialized studies and analysis to determine impact of resources downscale/changes for more economical consumption
• Participate and provide technical subject matter expertise as needed in maturing cloud infrastructure governance practices that impact cost tracking such as tagging standardization, automation, security governance, and optimal resource setup during account provisioning
• Provide technical expertise in laying design groundwork for special projects to pull cost and usage data from vendors for reporting and tracking purposes (via API queries/Python)
• Enable a cost conscience culture via data and insights, Work with IT, Procurement, Finance, and Engineering executive stakeholders to develop requirements and success criteria aligned with the company objectives and goals.