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Cloud/FinOps Architect - Phoenix Arizona
Company: Disability Solutions Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Posted On: 05/19/2024
Job Title:Cloud/FinOps ArchitectLocation:Block 23What you'll do:This Cloud Architect will be a go to person for Cloud platform, spend optimization expertise and an integral part of Enterprise Architecture organization within Western Alliance bank. The bank is on a Digital Transformation journey and is migrating workloads from on-prem data centers to Azure Cloud platform in addition to deploying solutions utilizing Cloud native services and technologies. As a Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for working with cross functional teams and coming up with design, development, and deployment strategies for highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions in the cloud platform. As a FinOps Architect, you will craft and execute cloud cost optimization strategies, analyze cloud spend, identify potential cost savings, define follow-up activities, and increase productivity. This role requires the candidate to demonstrate strong strategic & critical thinking skills as well as have an ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with multiple delivery teams, business partners, and IT leadership.What we are looking for: Responsibilities: - Design and deploy highly available, secure, and scalable hybrid cloud solutions utilizing Cloud native and on-prem services under industry best practices realm and with "Cloud First" mentality.
- Design effective monitoring, logging, and auditing of production systems to satisfy IT governance and risk mandated compliance policies.
- Applies methodology and governance, as directed, to minimize business and technical risks and adhere to quality assurance while contributing to design and/or delivery of solutions (e.g. Well-Architected Framework, Enterprise Scale Landing Zone, Cloud Adoption Framework).
- Create conceptual, logical, and physical architecture artifacts for cloud-based solutions.
- Develop Cloud based Engineering and Technology standards for Enterprise Architecture - Engineering and Technology standards catalogs.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams within the IT organization - Business, Product, Network, Security, Development, DevOps, and Operations team.
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Application teams, Operations team, Finance team to maintain cloud spend and environment stability through data analysis, consulting, accurate documentation, and creative problem-solving lens.
- Analyze, optimize, and implement cost optimization actions over different cloud services by creating value added financial and usage dashboards to drive tangible cost saving results.
- Work with the financial teams on budget, forecast, tagging and related FinOps centric KPI's and SLA analytics and reporting requirements.
- Work closely with our finance and legal departments to negotiate cost terms and contracts with Cloud vendors.
- Lead a small team of FinOps inhouse or managed service professionals.
- Drive decision making. Identify alternatives, pros, and cons, and make recommendations.
- Analyzes new and emerging trends in Cloud Architecture to ensure standards remain current and relevant.
- Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures, or culture) and financial impact of solution designs.
- Establish relationships with strategic public and hybrid cloud vendors to acquire knowledge develop partnerships and collaborate on potential architectural solutions and technology acquisitions.
- Communicates architectural solutions to IT senior leaders and other critical stakeholders throughout the architecture planning and design process.Qualifications:Required:
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