Cloud Service Provider Costing Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create detailed Microsoft Azure cost assessments, financial models, and total cost of ownership evaluations for enterprise workload migration, modernization, and hosting choices.

• Analyze and contrast the financial impacts of on-premises infrastructure, Azure VMware Solution, Azure-native IaaS and PaaS, and alternative commercial cloud platforms.

• Review Azure pricing structures, Microsoft licensing options, consumption-based fees, reservations, savings plans, data transfer expenses, and commercial purchasing agreements.

• Evaluate infrastructure configurations, resource utilization, application needs, and workload characteristics to set cost baselines and predict future cloud spending.

• Investigate cloud provider pricing, purchasing alternatives, discounts, licensing considerations, and contractual elements.

• Work alongside cloud engineers, solution architects, and technical stakeholders on architecture, infrastructure sizing, migration, and modernization choices.

• Formulate cloud cost optimization strategies that encompass resource sizing, consumption trends, licensing, reservations, savings plans, and service selection.

• Utilize Azure Pricing Calculator, Azure Cost Management, Azure Migrate, Microsoft Excel, and other related tools to create estimates, analyze expenses, validate assumptions, and maintain cloud cost models.

• Generate financial comparisons, forecasts, and business cases that document assumptions, cost drivers, trade-offs, risks, and anticipated outcomes.

• Deliver cloud cost analyses and recommendations to technical, business, and executive stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of SIX (6+) years of experience in cloud financial management, IT infrastructure costing, cloud pricing analysis, or related financial technical disciplines.

• A university degree or FOUR (4) years of experience in lieu of formal education.

• Proven hands-on experience in independently developing comprehensive Microsoft Azure pricing estimates, cloud financial models, and TCO analyses for enterprise infrastructure and application workloads.

• Strong practical understanding of Azure consumption pricing, Microsoft licensing, reservations, savings plans, data transfer fees, and commercial cloud purchasing models.

• Capability to convert infrastructure configurations, resource utilization, workload requirements, and architectural designs into detailed cloud consumption predictions and cost estimates.

• Experience in assessing and contrasting the financial implications of cloud migration, modernization, and hosting options, including Azure IaaS, PaaS, and VMware-based environments.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) purchasing agreements, negotiated pricing, and cloud licensing considerations.

• Working knowledge of Azure infrastructure architecture, including compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services.

• Experience with Azure Pricing Calculator, Azure Cost Management, Azure Migrate, or similar cloud financial management and estimation tools.

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, with the ability to independently develop, validate, document, and maintain intricate cloud cost models.

• Proficiency in developing financial analyses, documenting assumptions, and communicating cost comparisons, financial trade-offs, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

• Capability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

• FinOps Certified Practitioner certification, Microsoft Azure certifications, or comparable cloud financial management qualifications are preferred but not required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance.

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays.

• Parental Leave.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan.

• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance.

• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance.

• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits.

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability.

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities.

• Employee Referral Program.

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach.

• Care.com annual membership.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.).

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.

• Flexible benefits package.