Cloud FinOps Architect, Sophos
$183-305k
+ Bonus
Cybersecurity-as-a-Service
Open for applications
Cybersecurity-as-a-Service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$183-305k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To develop powerful and intuitive products and services that provide the world's most effective cybersecurity for organizations of any size.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate would have a strong understanding of FinOps data collection pipelines and AWS ecosystem
- 5+ years in managing Cloud environments, budgets, forecasts and implementing financial controls
- Experience with FinOps including cloud cost and financial model forecasting and cloud cost optimization strategies
- Understanding software development in a DevOps culture and ability to plan and deliver on FinOps short- and long-term roadmap
- Deep understanding of AWS capabilities with focus on building, troubleshooting and optimizing AWS services
- Experience with AWS billing, cost management tools, and best practices
- Experience working with relational/NoSQL databases
- Proficient with data structuring languages including CSV, JSON, and XML. Parquet also desirable
- Demonstrated experience in large data collection, analysis, and presentation
- Ability to query, analyze and summarize data efficiently and accurately
- Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations to leaders
- Comprehension of common business financial practices ex: COGS, CapEx, OpEx
- Understanding of ML tools like SageMaker, PyTorch, etc
- Ability to mentor and lead junior FinOps engineers
What the job involves
- As a Cloud FinOps Architect you are responsible for collecting and analyzing financial information related to the organization’s cloud expenses
- You would report on cost trends and track anomalies in usage to a granular level and help in allocating cost components to business units and product lines
- You would be able to review the cost data to improve the accuracy of budgets and forecasts for different products and help in creating financial models for engineering project and Go-To-Market decisions
- You will work as part of a team to implement and maintain FinOps practices and methodologies, with a focus on analyzing cloud usage and spending data to identify areas for cost optimization
- Collaborate with FinOps and Engineering to track and monitor cost optimization initiatives, ensuring key initiative assumptions are accurate, and applicable infrastructure efficiencies are incorporated into the forecast
- Monitor ongoing cloud expenses and identify cost-saving opportunities, such as unused or underutilized resources in AWS for all cloud hosted products
- Analyze cloud data to identify cost optimization and usage opportunities and create specific recommendations; review those recommendations with engineering and business stakeholders
- Monitor and report on cloud usage against budget and forecast, explore trends in cloud spend with a focus on root cause of cloud resource cost increase on daily/weekly/monthly trend
- Create reports, dashboards and alerts to track spending and usage trends and the potential impact of cost optimizations. Present regular updates to senior leadership
- Closely partner with Engineering teams to understand Cloud business processes and cost drivers
- Where needed, assist in implementing, maintaining and governing the FinOps with a focus on data pipelines optimization and accuracy
- Work with the technical teams to ensure proper tagging and allocation of cloud resources for accurate cost tracking and reporting). Build and optimize tagging framework, rollout to the full cloud stack and ensure compliance of tagging requirements
Our take
Due to the fast-evolving nature of cybercrime, companies can struggle to keep their security up-to-date and resilient. Sophos provides managed cybersecurity services to identify and resolve cyberthreats within all sizes of organisations, combining cutting edge cybersecurity tech with expert support teams.
Leveraging AI and machine learning, Sophos' system automates the detection and blocking of over 99% of threats, meaning its analysts only have to hunt down and stop the most sophisticated attackers. As well as its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) product - which, serving over 15,000 customers, is the most-used on the market - the company also delivers Incident Response Services for those experiencing an active threat.
Sophos is not a new player in the cybersecurity space, but has demonstrated its dedication to innovation with continued product launches, updates, and acquisitions such as that of BAE spinout SOC.OS that have kept its tech at the front of the market. Alongside many of its peers, the effects of the economic climate have caused Sophos to cut staff as it focusses on achieving “the optimal balance of growth and profitability", but this recent hiccup does not take away from its position as a market leader continuously leading adaption in the space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
36% female employees
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2020
$2.6m
SEED
Total funding: $2.6m
Company benefits
- Remote-first working model & hybrid options
- We encourage teams to get together in person periodically to help facilitate teamwork
- Flexible start and end times for many roles
- Leadership development program
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Global internal coaching program (Coach Match)
- Periodic Sophos wellness days off for all Sophos to help employees relax and recharge
- Global wellbeing program, which offers a range of wellbeing resources, including Sophos Wellbeing Webinars, Stress Management Toolkits, and Developing Resilience Courses
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for confidential advice and counseling on a wide range of work and personal issues
- Free annual subscription to the Calm app
- Paid parental leave, caregiver leave & bereavement/compassion leave available
- We host some unforgettable social experiences for our global teams including our music festival SOPH-Fest, go-karting, Sophmudder, and incredible holiday parties!
- Our annual global fitness challenge, SOPH-Fit, sees thousands of employees taking part in our virtual global race around the world
- Each quarter, we celebrate our exceptional global team by running the Sophos Values Awards, which recognizes and rewards employees who embody the Sophos values and who we are as a company
- Health care benefits available worldwide
Company values
- Simplicity: We strive to embrace design, automation, and re-engineering across our products and business operations. We aim to create instinctive next-gen products that provide IT professionals with exactly what they need to do their jobs efficiently and effectively.
- Empowerment: We support and enable people to do great work. We trust people to take ownership, to take smart risks, and to deliver results. We encourage people to take action, to seek knowledge, and to question actions inconsistent with our mission, values, or principles.
- Passion: We care intensely about our success and our impact. We maintain high standards and continuously strive to improve. We inspire others.
- Innovation: We stay at the forefront and advance the boundaries of what is possible. If we fail, we do it quickly, learn, share the lessons learned, and move forward. We always seek better approaches to what we do.
- Authenticity: We are genuine, transparent, and honest. We admit our mistakes and strive to remain self-aware. We say what we think, even if it might be difficult.
Company HQ
Abingdon, UK
Articles
Leadership
Kris Hagerman
(CEO, not founder)Former CEO of Corel Corporation, who previously served as Group President of Data Center Management at Symantec. Was also Executive VP and GM of Storage and Server Management at Veritas Software, as well as CEO and Founder of both Bigbook and Affinia.
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