Role: Cloud FinOps SME
Location: San Jose, CA or Lehi, UT (Hybrid - 2 to 3 days a week onsite is must)
Job Type: Contract
The Hiring Manager clearly stated the role is FinOps-heavy, not a technical engineering role.
Platforms:
Primary
- Databricks (must have)
- Azure cloud environment
Secondary
- AWS exposure
- Power BI optimization and monitoring
Must Have:
- Strong FinOps / cloud cost management experience
- Databricks platform experience
- Ability to manage cloud cost optimization and governance
- Excellent communication skills (role interacts with many departments and directors)
- Candidate must be comfortable discussing financial topics and communicating with multiple stakeholders.
- Technical engineering background
- Experience optimizing Power BI
- Ability to create backlog, epics, and stories for improvement initiatives.
Agile / Scrum Expectation
~Not a dedicated Scrum Master role.
Candidate can:
~Help create backlog of cost optimization initiatives
~Define epics/stories
~Prioritize improvements with the manager.
candidates who are primarily on below (please avoid):
Data Engineers
DevOps Engineers
Cloud Architects without FinOps experience
Finance analysts without cloud platform experience