Cloud Engineer

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Key resource for building out FinOps reporting, dashboards, budgets, anomaly alerting, showback and chargeback models for multiple clients
• Analyzing cloud usage and finding all cost optimization opportunities
• Helping to develop cloud policies and best practices for cost management
• Attending and assisting with FinOps workshops for our enterprise clients
• Meeting with clients to determine tagging strategies and policies for their cloud environment(s)

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant Engineering & Consulting experience
• 3+ years of relevant Cloud delivery experience
• 1+ year supporting FinOps activities within a cloud environment
• Consulting experience with large-scale cloud environments
• Capable of communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and in written form
• Knowledge of cloud system engineering principles and considerations
• Experience understanding cloud architecture, including web, application, VDI and database components
• General scripting knowledge using PowerShell or Python required
• Process automation using cloud native tools is a plus