Google Cloud FinOps Specialist

3 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom BT Group Full time

What you’ll be doing

Manage critical relationships with stakeholders like engineers, Finance business partners, FinOps champions, Cloud CoE FinOps squad and Google.  Keeping up to-date with latest, more performant, and cost-effective services launched by Google, analyse its applicability to BT and promote its usage amongst engineers. Promote FinOps mind-set pan-BT to all the cloud-using engineering teams agnostic of the Cloud provider (i.e., Google, AWS, Azure)  Constantly monitor BT-level GCP spend and work with engineers to implement optimisation opportunities and purchase the right rates optimisation products.  Build and maintain reports including dashboards suitable for key stakeholders of public cloud. Build plans, budgets, forecasts and variance analysis on public cloud consumption.  Link activity into financial processes and cycles for example providing variance analysis to budgets during month-end reporting.  Ensure chargeback and showback processes are fully operational. Establish guardrails / policies to detect and remove usage waste.  Continuously improve front door and in-life processes, ensuring the right data is captured to drive all aspects of cost transparency, optimisation, and financial accountability.  Work with Finance teams to ensure correct accounting is applied according to IFRS and Group Accounting Policy, for example capitalising test / dev activity or booking accruals during financial close. 

Skills and Experience

Required

Experience with developing scripts using languages like Python, SQL, and Terraform to implement automated cost optimization control & attribution policies.  Experience building and managing Cloud Cost analysis & visualizations using tools like Looker, Qlik, MS Excel, Tableau or any other similar tool. Good with data queries, generating actionable, concise, and presentable data visualizations.  Proficient in Git, Cloud Shell and Big Query. Understanding of GCP Cloud fundamentals in FinOps to manage Cloud Budget, Forecast, Spend monitoring, purchasing various Commitments, deriving Cloud Cost Optimization across the Organization.

Desired

Have hands-on experience querying data via SQL. Good with ETL pipeline setup and development.  Experience in managing and deployment of GCP services such as Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL, Compute Engine, Vertex AI, Cloud Spanner,GKE, GCS, DataFlow and Composer, pub/sub, BigQuery, VPC and Subnets provisioning both manual provisioning in GCP Console and using Terraform. Certification in FinOps Foundation practitioner is desired.  Certification in Google fundamentals or higher would be highly preferred. 

Benefits

25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) 10% on target bonus Life Assurance Pension scheme Direct share scheme Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc. 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM Only plans & airtime element off a Flex Pay plan

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

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