Senior FinOps Consultant

Company Description

Telefónica Tech (part of the Telefónica Group) is a leading NextGen Tech solutions provider with a highly diversified team of over 6,000 exceptionally skilled employees and +60 nationalities.

We serve more than 5.5m customers everyday in over 175 countries, with a global ecosystem of market-leading partners. Global strategic hubs: Spain, Brazil, the UK, Germany.

The Telefónica Tech UK&I hub has an end- to-end portfolio of market leading services and develops integrated technology solutions to accelerate digital transformation through: Cloud, Data & AI (Adatis), Enterprise Applications (Incremental), Workplace Services and Cyber Security & Networking.

Values: Open, Trusted and Bold

Trusted Partners:

• Microsoft: Top 3 Service Providers, Azure Expert Status, Fastrack & Inner Circle Partner
• HPE: Platinum Partner – FY23 UK&I Solution Provider of the Year
• Fortinet: Elite VIP Program – one of only 2 in the UK
• Palo Alto & Crowdstrike: part of our NextDefense Cyber Security Portfolio

Job Description

Senior FinOps Consultant 

As a Senior FinOps Consultant you will help to drive cost optimisation and efficiency in cloud environments. This is a hands-on and customer facing role helping organisations design and implement FinOps capabilities to continuously optimise spend and deliver maximum value from their public cloud investment. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Collate, analyse, prioritise cloud cost optimisation recommendations and calculate potential savings and benefits using FinOps tools 
• Implement rate and usage optimisations within public cloud environments (Azure, AWS and GCP) 
• Create high quality customer facing collateral explaining cloud cost optimisation and FinOps and present them to customers, both technical and non-technical 
• Design and implement FinOps maturity roadmaps for customers to accelerate their FinOps capabilities from scratch or optimise existing approach 
• Design and deliver training and enablement sessions to raise their understanding of cloud finance and economics 
• Collaborate with pre-sales, professional services and managed services to design and implement cost optimisations recommendations and best practices.

Skills / Experience 

• Hands on experience implementing FinOps to optimise cloud costs, with deep understanding of levers available to optimise cloud costs 
• Strong understanding of the FinOps Framework, capabilities, lifecycle and domains 
• Hands on experience with native and 3rd party public cloud cost management tools 
• Comfortable public speaking and presenting to a wide range of audiences 
• Ability to work independently with strong attention to detail and accuracy 
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships 
• Highly strong numerical and finance skills to investigate data and spot trends and anomalies 

Qualifications

Qualifications 

• Certifications such as FinOps Practitioner or FinOps Professional 
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals 
• Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification 

Key words:

FinOps - FinOps Consultant - Cloud - Cost Optimisation - AWS - Azure - Google - GCP

Additional Information

We don’t believe hiring is a tick box exercise, so if you feel that you don’t match the job description 100%, but would still be a great fit for role, please get in touch.

We don’t believe hiring is a tick box exercise, so if you feel that you don’t match the job description 100%, but would still be a great fit for role, please get in touch.