Job description

Critical Competencies - Excellence: Exceeds expectations by consistently demonstrating accountability, discipline, high performance, and a proven track record of exceptional results. - Customer-driven: Prioritizes customer needs and satisfaction through collaborative and proactive problem-solving, and an unwavering commitment to customer success. - Expertise: Possesses a deep understanding of FinOps and the ability to meet customers where they are in their journey and help them accelerate their success. - Agility: The ability to adapt and respond to competing customer requests while working in a supportive and team-oriented manner. In addition, the ability to think outside the box and bring new innovative approaches to our practice. - Compassion: Cultivates a positive and supportive environment to effectively work together towards a common goal, fostering trust within Rackspace and with external stakeholders. Ultimately, we are one team and bring a positive, people-first attitude every day. Key Responsibilities - Manage and deliver fast-paced, high-impact engagements with enterprise companies, resulting in further adoption of FinOps best practices and increased cloud maturity for our customers. - Build relationships with client-side and internal stakeholders across various business groups to drive successful engagements. - Deliver recommendations on topics ranging from cloud financial management, budgets, showback and chargeback, organizational management, policy and governance, and other topics related to FinOps. - The potential to serve as a multi-cloud subject-matter expert, helping clients plan and execute efficient adoption and integration of cloud technologies and platforms across all three hyperscalers, AWS, Azure, and GCP. - Enable clients to understand and use their cloud data across technical and non-technical business units. - The ability to support large contractual negotiations, such as the AWS Private Pricing Program. - Excellent data analysis skills and strong comfort in data presentation using tools such as Excel, PowerBI, Alteryx, SQL and other data analysis techniques. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to reach a wide range of senior technology leaders both within our organization and with our customers. Knowledge - Foundational knowledge of AWS, Azure or GCP, preferably AWS. - Deep understanding of public cloud FinOps best practices. FinOps certifications preferred. - Understanding of other core public cloud functionality, such as AWS organizational structure, IAM roles and policies, Private Pricing Programs, as well as an understanding of how a cloud resale business operates. - Strong data analysis skills and the ability to translate data into insights in a simple and elegant way. - Background in business, finance or engineering preferred. Skills - Cloud Consulting - Communication - Customer Service - Data Analysis - Relationship Management - Presentation Building - Process Improvement - Technical Engagement Management - Business Strategy - Cloud Strategy Education/Experience - High School Diploma or regional equivalent required. - Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in field related to role. At the manager’s discretion, additional relevant experience may substitute degree requirement. - 3 - 5 years of experience in Public Cloud FinOps, Cloud Consulting or Cloud Strategy required Certifications - Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect) preferred. - Bonus points for Cloud Management Platform experience (e.g., CloudHealth, Flexera, Apptio, etc.) - Bonus points for FinOps foundation certifications (e.g., FinOps Certified Practitioner, FOCUS Analyst, etc.) Physical Demands - General office environment. - Moderate levels of stress may occur at times. - May require long periods sitting and viewing a computer monitor. - No special physical demands required.

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