Lead Specialist Cloud FinOps
Pearson VUE
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Job Title: Lead Specialist Cloud FinOps
Work Location: Bangalore, India (Hybrid),
Working Shift: USA (6:30 PM IST to 3:30AM IST)
As a Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer for Pearson, you will join Pearson's Cloud FinOps team, working as part of a global Centre of Excellence focused on cloud cost transparency and optimisation across a multi-cloud estate. You will be responsible for collecting and analyzing data to provide Cloud financial insights critical to our success as a business.
Required Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
Produce reports for multi-cloud platforms that can be shared with and actioned by Management and Senior Leaders.
Work effectively with cross-functional teams globally, assimilating requirements, driving results in the form of data insights and building strategic partnerships.
Support the FinOps team with setting goals/KPIs, retrieving data and modeling
Partner with our Cloud Governance team to map data process flows, allowing FinOps to gather a single source of data.
Analyze and forecast cloud hosting costs.
Provide cost optimization recommendations.
Create and maintain month-end and quarter-end reports.
Use Agile methodology for planning and execution.
Use tools and technology to make data driven decisions.
Collecting requirements for targeted automation projects; exploring potential solutions based on fit, up-skilling need, team skillsets, cost, and current and long-term strategies
Required Skills
Python Data Analytics Skills
PowerBI Development
Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS or GCP)
Cloud billing and cost management tools
FinOps commitment plan strategies such as enterprise-wide discount programs and commitment plans (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Sustained Use/Committed Use Discounts)
Agentic AI Experience
Advanced Excel
Financial principles and business analytics.
Cross-functional and global team collaboration
Self-starter who can also work independently and with a team to deliver superior customer service
Understanding of applications development environment, database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints.
Ability to analyze and produce meaningful insights from large datasets
Strong analytical background with an aptitude for understanding technology
Nice to have skills
Experience with 3rd party cloud cost optimization tools like Cloudability
Understanding of database and big data management capabilities and constraints like RDBMS, NoSQL, Datalake, etc.
Experience managing or developing automation with object-oriented programming languages like Java or Python and understanding of appropriate use
Experience with the AWS Cloud platform and leveraging appropriate AWS services (e.g. S3, Lambda) as part of development of automated solutions.
Experience leveraging REST API for extracting and/or posting data
Understanding of building and deploying Agentic solutions
Azure, GCP or AWS Certifications
Qualifications
Education (or equivalent work experience)
Undergraduate or master's degree in computer science, management information systems, data analytics or similar
+7 years of experience in IT (Business Analytics, Project Management or Technology Finance)
Growth Opportunities exist for cross-training on AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms, and support for FinOps Foundation certification.
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About Pearson VUE
Pearson VUE is a leading provider of computer-based testing services, delivering certification and licensure exams for professionals across various industries.