Senior Cloud Financial Operations Engineer

Cloud FinOps Engineer III

Job Title: Cloud FinOps Engineer III

As a Cloud FinOps Engineer for Pearson, you will be helping to collect and analyze data to provide Cloud financial insights critical to our success as a business as it relates to an Infrastructure and Operations organization. 

Responsibilities include, but not limited to: 

• Produce insightful reports for multi-cloud platforms that can be shared with and actioned by Management. 
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams globally, assimilating requirements, driving results in the form of data insights and building strategic partnerships. 
• Support the FinOps team with setting goals/KPIs, retrieving data and modeling 
• Partner heavily with our Cloud Governance team to map data process flows, allowing FinOps to gather a single source of data source. 
• Analyze and forecast cloud hosting costs. 
• Provide cost optimization recommendations. 
• Create and maintain month-end and quarter-end reports. 
• Use Agile methodology for planning and execution. 
• Use tools and technology to make data driven decisions. 
• Collecting requirements for targeted automation projects; exploring potential solutions based on fit, up-skilling need, team skillsets, cost, and current and long-term strategies 

 

What Skills You Need 

• Self-starter who can also work remotely with a team to deliver superior customer service 
• Knowledge of financial principles and business analytics. 
• Ability to work with multiple internal teams to provide the best experience for our customers 
• Understanding of applications development environment, database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints. 
• Ability to analyze and produce meaningful insights from large datasets 
• Strong analytical background with an aptitude for understanding technology 
• Experience with advanced Excel functions required 
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, etc. 
• Willingness to work 6:30 PM IST to 3:30AM IST 

 

What Makes You Stand Out 

• Experience with Cloud billing and cost management tools and processes 
• Experience in cost management tactics such as enterprise-wide discount programs and commitment plans (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Sustained Use/Committed Use Discounts) 
• Experience with 3rd party cloud cost optimization tools (Cloudability) 
• Understanding of database and big data management capabilities and constraints (RDBMS, NoSQL, Datalake, etc) 
• Experience managing or developing automation with object-oriented programming languages (Java, Python) and understanding of appropriate use 
• Experience with the AWS Cloud platform and leveraging appropriate AWS services (e.g. S3, Lambda) as part of development of automated solutions. 
• Experience leveraging REST API for extracting and/or posting data 
• Understanding of building and deploying Agentic AI  

 

Qualifications 

Education (or equivalent work experience) 

• Undergraduate or master's degree in computer science, management information systems, data analytics 

+5 years of experience in IT (Business Analytics, Project Management, IT Finance) 

Experience Level

Senior Level