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Senior AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Engineer

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Amazon Web Services, AWS Cost Explorer, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Containerization, Python, AWS Budgets, AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic Infrastructure, Smartsheet

We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Engineer to join our team.

As an AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Engineer, you will increase visibility into cloud spending by developing a data-driven approach to alerting, reporting, and optimizing cloud costs.

The right candidate will have hands-on experience in DevOps or SRE possess deep experience working on cost analysis and optimization in large AWS environments, with passion for data analysis, and is a team player who can collaborate with others across the organization.

Responsibilities
  • Work with the different software development and engineering teams to identify optimization opportunities to maximize ROI on cloud resources and work towards making cloud infrastructure cost-efficient
  • Work to fully understand the client’s product and the way it is architected and deployed in the cloud, and the associated costs for each portion of the environment
  • Partnering with architects and engineers to advise on architecture and resource optimization, waste management, capacity management, KPI development
  • Monitor and identify increases in Cloud costs and other usage anomalies and be able to investigate the source of these increases
  • Tracking utilization of cloud reservation/savings plans and working with teams to re-purpose freed up capacity
  • Evaluating and investigating data patterns and anomalies to derive insightful knowledge that can inform strategic and operational decisions
  • Determine areas of efficiency and develop plans for optimization
  • Recommend savings opportunities related to cloud commitment purchases 
  • Develop, modify and maintain cloud costs and utilization reports, dashboards, and cost usage alerting and forecasting
  • Implement dashboards and automated reporting for cost and cost compliance
  • Partake in creating, maturing, automating and governing Cost Optimization policies and best practice
  • Partner with engineering teams to ensure cost improvements are working
  • Reporting of KPIs and recommended savings opportunities
Requirements
  • 3+ years of relevant work experience
  • Understanding AWS cloud infrastructure, cost reporting, and cost optimization at scale in AWS
  • Proficiency with AWS EKS Experience, Containerization
  • Experience creating cost optimization dashboards, models and reports for engineering teams that utilize cloud services
  • Expertise with tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Report, AWS Budgets, CloudHealth
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team on multiple concurrent projects
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
  • B2+ English level 
Nice to have
  • Experience with AWS Budgets, AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic Infrastructure, Smartsheet