Back to SearchWe 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
Benefits
- International projects with top brands
- Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
- Healthcare benefits
- Employee financial programs
- Paid time off and sick leave
- Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
- Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
- Global career opportunities
- Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
- EPAM Employee Groups
- Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn