FinOps Practitioner at Old Mutual

Job Description

As a part of our Core Technology Platform team, the individual will be responsible for monitoring and reporting on the cost of running our cloud infrastructure and service platforms. Old Mutual Limited does make use of a central tenet account hierarchy. All operational aspects will be performed to best practice policies and methodologies to ensure the performance and quality standards are met. The individual will work closely with application and core support teams, to lead by diving into usage patterns and forecasts. The individual will assist teams to align their budget expectations with their actuals. Based on this data intelligence gathering process, the individual is a key component of revenue decisions and key in defining engineering future cloud strategies. The individual will mentor, guide and facilitate the implementation of ITFM and FinOps framework within the company and be part of the TBM modelling team.

Investigate and understand the basis for every line item in the cloud infrastructure invoices and usage data.

• Finding anomalies in usage patterns and giving quick feedback to course correct.
• Following Inform, Optimize and Operate methodology by ensuring resource utilization versus estimates are realistic and achievable.
• Creating business intelligence reporting to inform the broader organization and empower support teams to facilitate the companies’ cost optimizations and to minimize companywide IT cloud resource waste.
• Creating AI and ML capabilities, to assist in automating and less human interventions for managing of Cloud spend. By using cloud native technologies and applications as first option.
• Producing real-time data to predict usage patterns, to use in making decisions for optimizing and being able to tell the data stories in the reporting to all levels of management and support.
• Create and maintaining internal documentation on FinOps and cost optimization processes
• Create mapping and upload files into Cost analytics toolsets to assist support team in building out their TCO’s, using the agreed TBM data model.

Minimum Qualifications/Experience (required For The Job)

Must be a member of the FinOps Community.

• Must have either AWS Cloud Certified Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals Certification or equivalent.
• FinOps Practitioner certification, or equivalent, is preferred
• Keep up to date on the latest cloud products and trends related to costs.
• Some working experience with cost structure of AWS products and services.
• Familiarity with other cloud service provides is beneficial.
• Some working experience with BI, warehousing and/or cost tracking tools such as Tableau, Microsoft Power Platform, AWS-Athena, AWS-QuickSight.
• Literacy in Json is beneficial.
• Must have knowledge of Cloud concepts such as SAAS, FAAS, Native product and software offerings.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and cloud management tools
• Tertiary education or experience in a finance related discipline is recommended including budgeting and expense management

Competencies Required

Data-driven and attention to detail and big picture

• Action Oriented
• Measuring capabilities (Process and Finance)
• Data storyboarding (monitoring and measuring)
• Continuous Improvement Management
• Automation
• Problem Finding and Solving

Closing Date

• 30 September 2022