AWS FinOps Architect (W2 Contract)

AWS FinOps Architect with FinOps Certifications Atlanta, GA, 3 Days/ week Onsite (HYBRID)
Minimum Experience: 15+ years

Sound knowledge on AWS platform and configurations with proficiency on establishing FinOps Analysis, Approaches, Qualification, and Classification criteria including remediation approaches

Work with client FinOps and CFO teams to leverage FinOps data & processes to facilitate Budgeting & Forecasting

Budgeting Baselining Spend Expectations - projects, applications + Alerts for projected Budget threshold breaches

Forecasting Identifying projected deltas including growth and program driven (Work with CloudOps / ITOps teams)

Reviews of Reservations (supplemented by IT Operations data)

Adjustments to Baselines & Savings Plans

Product and Service switches to optimize sourcing and Savings/Discount plans

• Work with IT Operation and Cloud Operations teams to identify the type activities/interventions that could address actions identified by above controls
• Work with stakeholders (engineering, application, business, audit, sourcing, budgeting & forecasting, and operations teams) to establish appropriate OCM (Operational Change Management) avenues to promote FinOps culture in their planning and actions
• Governance and Review forums
• Architecture and Roadmaps (incl. Patterns/Template/Blueprints)
• Automations and Standard Operating Processes
• Establish and evolve Tagging Standards to ensure appropriate tracking and usage/spend baselines can be established to support / differentiate
• existing Public Cloud workloads
• future migrated Public Cloud workloads
• changes to existing public cloud workloads due to new releases, approved changes, and organic growth
• Establish (with client FinOps team) detailed data streams for near real-time (and real time) costs and consumption for engineering, application, and business teams.
• spend and usage/allocations (from billing data)
• breakdown by accounts, by applications, by line of business (business functions) discounts and credits cross leverage Observability/Instrumentation (e.g., OTel) to enhance information that could be provided that influence spending/consumption patterns

Create Dashboards and Visualizations to support contextual Reporting for:

• Governance
  Cost Management (Including Baseline Cost Tracking)
  IT Operations
  Program Management
  Establish and evolve relevant controls to be integrated into provisioning and operational processes
• Detective controls - identify and report errors and irregularities e.g., Incomplete tagging, unallocated assets, underutilized assets, deviations from WAF/Roadmap standards
• Corrective controls - correct errors or irregularities that have been detected e.g., correct tagging
• Preventive controls - taken before a threat to reduce the chance of it happening and the impact it has e.g., ensure provisioning can t proceed without complete data/parameters
• Deterrent controls Method or control to discourage a potential bad actor e.g., highlight and dissuade configuration/provisioning outside defined pipelines or change activities