AHEAD

AHEAD

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help...

IT Services
1K-5K
$43M raised

Description

  • Lead the design, implementation, and quality of complex, enterprise-grade FinOps solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Serve as the primary technical escalation point and principal engineer for complex client and financial analysis scenarios.
  • Define methodologies for cloud cost analysis, optimization, allocation, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and savings realization.
  • Own FinOps data models, dashboards, governance standards, reusable assets, roadmaps, and delivery quality frameworks.
  • Develop and drive the practice’s AI and automation roadmap, including anomaly detection, rightsizing, commitment optimization, forecasting, and workflow automation.
  • Advise senior client stakeholders on FinOps operating models, governance, maturity, unit economics, and strategic cloud cost management.
  • Lead commitment and rate strategies, including reserved capacity, savings plans, enterprise agreements, and utilization tracking.
  • Build client relationships, support service reviews and pre-sales activities, and identify growth opportunities for FinOps and adjacent services.
  • Coordinate distributed technical resources, mentor engineers, review deliverables, and improve practice maturity without direct personnel-management responsibility.
  • Provide escalation, on-call, incident, reporting, and approved after-hours support as required by client commitments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, finance, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of information technology experience, including 5+ years focused on FinOps, cloud cost management, cloud governance, or related cloud engineering.
  • 5+ years in customer-facing, consulting, stakeholder-facing, or service delivery roles presenting to technical, financial, and executive audiences.
  • 2+ years administering FinOps or cloud management platforms such as Harness CCM, Cloudability, CloudHealth, CloudZero, or similar tools.
  • Expertise in at least one major public cloud provider—AWS, Azure, or GCP—with working depth in a second; strong AWS or Azure experience preferred.
  • Experience designing or operating large-scale, multi-account, multi-subscription, or enterprise cloud environments.
  • Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language, such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
  • Relevant FinOps and cloud certifications, such as FinOps Certified Practitioner or Professional, AWS Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud certifications.
  • Strong understanding of cloud billing, allocation, optimization, forecasting, unit economics, governance, and financial modeling.
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States and able to complete AHEAD and client-required background screening.
  • Preferred experience includes managed services or consulting, FinOps practice development, Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks, machine learning, Kubernetes cost allocation, policy-as-code, Power BI/Tableau, and ServiceNow/Jira.
  • Remote U.S. work with up to 15% domestic travel and occasional after-hours or weekend support.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Paid company holidays and paid time off.
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave.
  • Certification sponsorship and professional development opportunities.
  • Remote work environment.

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