About the company
Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build and use open, permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3.
Job Summary
WHAT YOU WILL DO
šInfrastructure Cost Management: Analyze and optimize infrastructure spend across AWS, GCP, and OCI environments, ensuring effective cost controls across platforms. Drive cost savings through mechanisms such as savings plans, resource right-sizing, workload scheduling, and other platform-specific levers. Collaborate with engineering and finance teams to align usage with business priorities and hold teams accountable for efficient spending. šCloud Cost Strategy: Your role will be pivotal in controlling one of the companyās most significant operational expenses. By identifying high-impact cost optimizations and enforcing standards for cost-efficient design across the organization, you will directly contribute to the company's financial health, playing a crucial role in our overall success. šBusiness Alignment and Accountability: As a key liaison between the technical and financial aspects of the company, you will partner with finance and department leads to align infrastructure usage with budget expectations. You will translate technical cloud cost data into clear, actionable business terms and drive accountability for spend at the service and team level. Your role will ensure infrastructure investments are connected to business outcomes, not just reported after the fact. šDrive Cost Efficiency: Identify and recommend strategies to maximize the value of cloud spending, including defining optimal savings plans, leading negotiations with suppliers, and recommending resource optimization approaches. šFinancial Modeling: Forecast cloud spend by service and team, monitor budget variance in real time, and proactively flag deviation risks. Support monthly budgeting and cost projection cycles in partnership with Finance. šCollaboration: As a FinOps engineer, you will work closely with engineering teams, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and infrastructure project managers. Your role will be to integrate cost awareness into business workflows, fostering a collaborative environment where everyone's efforts contribute to the company's success and where your input is valued and integral to our operations.
WHAT YOU WILL BRING
šBS in Computer Science, Finance, Business, or related field. š5+ years of experience as a FinOps engineer for cloud services, preferably in a senior or lead role. šStrong experience managing and optimizing costs in AWS and GCP. šFamiliarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or other cloud environments is preferred, particularly in multi-cloud or hybrid setups. šExperience with cloud cost optimization, including savings plans and instance right-sizing. šExcellent knowledge of FinOps best practices and frameworks. šUnderstanding of financial principles and budgeting practices. šStrong analytical and problem-solving skills are a must, with experience in cloud infrastructure management. Your ability to analyze complex data and solve intricate problems will be crucial in this role. We look forward to seeing how you can apply your expertise to our cloud operations. šExperience with data analytics tools: Tableau, Google Looker
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