Cloud FinOps Architect

About Us

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

As a Cloud FinOps Architect you are responsible for collecting and analyzing financial information related to the organization’s cloud expenses. You would report on cost trends and track anomalies in usage to a granular level and help in allocating cost components to business units and product lines. You would be able to review the cost data to improve the accuracy of budgets and forecasts for different products and help in creating financial models for engineering project and Go-To-Market decisions. You will work as part of a team to implement and maintain FinOps practices and methodologies, with a focus on analyzing cloud usage and spending data to identify areas for cost optimization.

The ideal candidate would have a strong understanding of FinOps data collection pipelines and AWS ecosystem.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with FinOps and Engineering to track and monitor cost optimization initiatives, ensuring key initiative assumptions are accurate, and applicable infrastructure efficiencies are incorporated into the forecast.
• Monitor ongoing cloud expenses and identify cost-saving opportunities, such as unused or underutilized resources in AWS for all cloud hosted products.
• Analyze cloud data to identify cost optimization and usage opportunities and create specific recommendations; review those recommendations with engineering and business stakeholders.
• Monitor and report on cloud usage against budget and forecast, explore trends in cloud spend with a focus on root cause of cloud resource cost increase on daily/weekly/monthly trend
• Create reports, dashboards and alerts to track spending and usage trends and the potential impact of cost optimizations. Present regular updates to senior leadership.
• Closely partner with Engineering teams to understand Cloud business processes and cost drivers.
• Where needed, assist in implementing, maintaining and governing the FinOps with a focus on data pipelines optimization and accuracy.
• Work with the technical teams to ensure proper tagging and allocation of cloud resources for accurate cost tracking and reporting). Build and optimize tagging framework, rollout to the full cloud stack and ensure compliance of tagging requirements

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years in managing Cloud environments, budgets, forecasts and implementing financial controls.
• Experience with FinOps including cloud cost and financial model forecasting and cloud cost optimization strategies.
• Understanding software development in a DevOps culture and ability to plan and deliver on FinOps short- and long-term roadmap.
• Deep understanding of AWS capabilities with focus on building, troubleshooting and optimizing AWS services.
• Experience with AWS billing, cost management tools, and best practices
• Experience working with relational/NoSQL databases.
• Proficient with data structuring languages including CSV, JSON, and XML. Parquet also desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in large data collection, analysis, and presentation
• Ability to query, analyze and summarize data efficiently and accurately.
• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations to leaders.
• Comprehension of common business financial practices ex: COGS, CapEx, OpEx
• Understanding of ML tools like SageMaker, PyTorch, etc
• Ability to mentor and lead junior FinOps engineers

In the United States, the base salary for this role ranges from $183,000 to $305,000. In addition to base salary, we offer additional compensation including bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits package. A candidate’s specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job-related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

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What's Great About Sophos?

· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. Please refer to the location details in our job postings for further information.

· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit

· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy

· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities

· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint

· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp

· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge 

· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know. 

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