Pricing and Cost Cloud Optimization Specialist
Company: GAMA-1 Technologies
Location: Silver Spring
Posted on: May 26, 2023
Job Description:
The remote Senior Cloud Pricing and Cost Optimization Specialist
is responsible for both: monitoring and auditing cloud resources to
improve the operational efficiency of NOAA's NCCF cloud
infrastructure and ensure margins for hosting business as well as
leveraging knowledge of those infrastructure costs to develop
custom pricing models.
This role will have both strategic and operational responsibility.
This position is responsible for estimating product development
costs and forecasting growth, while also considering third party
support licensing agreements, labor costs, and financial statement
impact. You will interact regularly with the leadership,
Engineering, Finance and Sales team to take actions to reduce cloud
spending and increase margins.
Responsibilities:
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- Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure capacity and demand
forecasts - including day to day monitoring and tracking of cloud
capacity & resource management for all services
- Develop and maintain custom pricing models - including day to
day monitoring and tracking of revenue for all services
- Create Cloud cost optimization framework and Governance
mechanism using native and 3rd party tools
- Coordinate with Cloud Ops managers to log incoming cloud
service demand and provide recommendation for commitments
- Review and validate incoming requests for new cloud services
and/or infra components and ensure capacity availability
- Cloud infrastructure operational reporting (on performance,
usage, compliance, etc.)
- Responsible for day to day cloud performance tracking and
reporting - including creating reports for new services & manage
exceptions to usage and billing, as needed
- Analyze the cloud infrastructure and provide financial updates
and optimization recommendations
To set you up for success in this role from day one, GAMA-1
requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:
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- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Finance, Accounting, Computer
Science, or Computer Engineering
- Five years of Information Technology (IT) experience in a
private or public cloud environment
- Experience with AWS cost explorer (mandatory), Azure Cost
Management (preferred), billing analysis and various cost
optimization techniques
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification (or
equivalent knowledge), AWS Business Professional certification or
equivalent knowledge, AWS Cloud Practitioner certification
- Working knowledge on cloud chargeback reporting, show back,
reserved instances, spend control, etc.
- Must be able to obtain a government security clearanceABOUT
GAMA-1GAMA-1 is a rapidly growing technology business that is based
in Greenbelt, Maryland. GAMA-1 Technologies provides strategic
information assurance, information security, and business
enterprise and networking solutions to the Federal Government. Our
success is based on the utilization of industry and agency
standards, establishment of standardized processes, and IT Services
expertise. At GAMA-1, we believe employees should grow, achieve,
and develop just as the company grows, achieves, and develops.
GAMA-1 is committed to providing our employees with opportunities
for career advancement throughout their employment. For more
information, visit www.gama1tech.comGAMA-1 is an Equal Opportunity
Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration
for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or
protected veteran status.Powered by JazzHR
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