Role: FinOps Consultant

Location: UK (Remote)

Duration: 3 months (Rolling Contract)

Day Rate: £650 - £700 (Outside IR35)

Key Essential Skills:

• 5+ years Consultancy experience.
• FinOps Certification
• 2+ years Cloud Cost Optimisation experience.
• Proven track record in overseeing Financial Budgeting processes for Cloud Services.
• Extensive experience and knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure and terminology.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud technologies (AWS and Azure) - Essential
• Hands on experience with public cloud billing with reporting analysis tools.
• Solid understanding of IBM Apptio cloudability (Preferred) or Flexera
• Proficient in Microsoft productivity tools (Office 365 - especially MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams).
• Excellent presentation, communication and relationship-building skills.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).

Desirable Skills:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Azure Solution Architect
• Experience in Kubernetes containerisation.
• Good knowledge of IT Service Management (ITSM) ServiceNow.
• Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and IT Asset Management (ITAM) experience.
• Understanding of IT Operations based on ITIL Framework.
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and capacity planning.

Overview:

• You'll be working with a dynamic consultancy who are providing cutting edge solutions to help their clients optimise and reduce their Cloud spend.
• This is an opportunity to work with Thebes Technology in the role of a FinOps Consultant. The focus is to improve efficiency and performance across product lines by utilising available data and trending information. This exciting opportunity that requires a thorough understanding of Cloud Technologies and Services, Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban), and IT Operations as defined by the ITIL Framework.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Provide cloud cost expertise, advice, governance, and controls (showback/chargeback models/budgets and forecasting/tag strategy and compliance)
• Fulfil Consulting Engagements as lead on the OPEX budgets and OPEX spend.
• Central part of a leading Cloud Optimisation team using AWS and Azure providing timely insight, financial control and improving the unit economics of cloud.
• Deliver Data reporting, Unit economics cloud financial management roadmap.
• Identifying continuous improvement opportunities
• Collaborate with vendor partners whilst actively developing and maintaining strategic IT cost outs and maintaining relationships.
• Identifying additional opportunities withn intelligent MI delivery life cycle
• Board level, ensuring all financial information is available to make informed commercial decisions on future plans/projects.
• Oversee Financial Budgeting processes for Cloud Services.
• Proposed chargeback model direct to business, piloting leading application as POC receiving signoff by the business, providing greater transparency to business areas on the cloud bill and their proportional charge.

Outline Thebes Technology:

Thebes Technology is a boutique consulting firm that specialises in Cloud Cost Optimisation and FinOps across the entirety of the cloud journey.

Using our unique Framework, we eliminate between 15 - 30%, of waste from organisations' technology spend to enable them to invest in innovation.

We are different from other organisations - we go beyond cost savings. We consider the business, technology, governance and finance dimensions of your technology spend to make the right trade-offs to achieve direct value to your business strategy and enable competitive advantage. Further, we educate and enable your teams to be certified in FinOps and empower your teams to make the changes stick so value is retained in the long-term.