Principal Cloud FinOps Engineer

Smarsh is the leader in communications compliance, archiving, and analytics. We provide compliance across the broadest set of communications channels with insights on what's being captured. Smarsh customers manage over 500 million daily conversations across 80 channels and growing. Customers include the top 10 U.S., top 8 European, top 5 Canadian, and top 3 Asian banks. The Smarsh advantage is customers stay ahead of compliance and uncover patterns and relationships hidden within their data.

At Smash, we've been helping our customers manage new forms of communication since 1998. We work closely with regulators including the SEC, FINRA, IIROC, and the PRA and FCA, and with our customers, to ensure that they understand the capabilities of today's technology and that our platform meets their most stringent requirements. Our products include Connected Capture, Connected Archive, Web Archive & Business Solutions.

About the role

As a FinOps Engineer, you will be responsible for managing and optimizing our cloud spend. You will be reporting to Head of FinOps and work closely with VP of Technology Strategy, engineering leaders in the organisation. You will be responsible for reporting cloud cost consumption and bring financial transparency across our cloud services. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, hands-on experience with AWS cloud platforms, and a solid understanding of FinOps principles.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with various engineering, products and finance teams
• Strong understanding of FinOps governance, tooling and cost reporting including unit cost calculations.
• Close collaboration with different external public cloud providers to manage hosting costs.
• Establish principes on cost visibility reports and dashboards using cloud native and third-party tools.
• Implement and monitor cost anomaly in complex architecture in a large-scale deployment.
• Work with financial teams on production-related budgets and forecasts.
• Create financial models to calculate TCO of new products/projects.
• Partner with the development, support and DevOps and Info Sec teams to encourage financial responsibility.
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in cloud cost optimization and FinOps methodologies.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience as a Cloud FinOps Engineer
• A cloud engineer with a strong knowledge of public Cloud Operating Model, Observability, Cloud infrastructure, Networking Architecture, Containers and Microservices
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification preferred.
• FinOps Certified Engineer or Practitioner Desirable.

Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world's leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.