Remote FinOps consultant

Position: Cloud Finops consultant
Location: Frisco TX (Remote will also work)
Rate: $50/hr. on W2 OR $60/hr c2c
Assist FinOps practitioner bridge business, engineering and finance teams, enabling evidence-based decisions in near-real time to help optimize cloud use and increase business value. Focus on establishing a FinOps culture and enabling stakeholder teams by demonstrating a working knowledge of the Principles and Capabilities of the FinOps Framework, a prescriptive model of actions and best practices. Deep technical expertise in Clienture primarily and AWS secondly.
Helping Engineering teams adopting FinOps use cost and resource use as a metric similarly to other performance metrics. Consider the efficient design and use of resources as they Clienthitect, design, and build IT systems in the cloud. Responsible for their cloud use, and perform activities like selecting appropriate resource locations, rightsizing (the process of resizing cloud resources to better match the workload requirements), workload management (only running resources when they are needed), removing unused resources, and monitoring for spending anomalies.
Objectives:

1. Cultural change flag bearer
2. Create cloud cost management best practices
3. Create benchmarks for teams to use
4. Create visibility and transparency to cloud cost
5. Create or inform cloud budgets and forecasts
6. Help create and maintain FinOps Strategies

Capabilities:

1. Maintain tagging strategy
2. Anomaly Management
3. Clienthitecting for Cloud
4. Benchmarking
5. Budgeting & allocations
6. Cloud Policy and Governance
7. Cloud Sustainability
8. Data ingestion
9. FinOps Assessment
10. Workload Optimization
11. Rate Optimization
12. Reporting Analytics and Unit Economics
13. Understanding of Licensing and SaaS
14. Forecasting & Planning and estimation