FinOps Cloud AWS Consultant

Project overview

Context

For a major French group, we are looking for a FinOps Consultant to strengthen the transverse FinOps team and manage cost control across three areas:

You will support the Lead FinOps and work daily with product teams, architects, finance, and management control.

Your Missions

Profile Sought

Experience: 4 to 8 years of experience, including at least 2 to 3 years in FinOps.

Required Certifications:

Appreciated Certifications:

Key Skills:

Soft Skills:

Technical Environment

AWS, GCP, S3NS, Generative AI, Microsoft Power Platform, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint

Work Environment

Work Environment of the PositionOrganizational Context

Daily Stakeholders

Technologies

Tools

Expected Native FinOps Tools

Work Rhythm and Deliverables

FrequencyActivitiesDailyAnalysis of 100% of budget overrun and anomaly alertsWeeklyDocumentation of gainsMonthlyAnalysis of SP/RI, account estimations, approx. 2 account audits and 2 restitution meetingsQuarterlyFinOps evaluation and Jira tickets, 100% KPI and Confluence documentationSemi-annuallyFinOps requirements per persona in Confluence, review of acculturation materialsAnnually (May-June)Budget forecasting cycle: reports and Excel file end of May, PowerPoint presentation mid-June, model improvement document end of JuneTwice a yearFinOps acculturation webinarsQ1 2027Test report “AI for FinOps”

Conditions

• public cloud (AWS, GCP, and S3NS)
• generative AI services (Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Mistral)
• internal services
• Deploy the FinOps Foundation framework (and Tokenomics) and contribute to building the FinOps activity
• Monitor consumption and build public cloud budget forecasts
• Analyze daily alerts for budget overruns and anomalies
• Identify Savings Plans and Reserved Instances opportunities and track gains
• Conduct product account audits (approximately 2 per month) and track action plans in Jira
• Assist architects and product owners in cost estimation from the design phase
• Maintain and evolve KPIs and dashboards in Power BI
• Lead FinOps acculturation webinars
• Test AI agents to automate certain FinOps processes
• FinOps Practitioner
• FOCUS Analyst
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer
• AI for FinOps (Tokenomics)
• Very good command of AWS FinOps tools: Cost Explorer, Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, Compute Optimizer, Pricing Calculator, CUDOS
• Good command of the GCP ecosystem: FinOps Hub, BigQuery, Looker Studio
• Proficiency in Power BI and Power Automate
• Good knowledge of AWS and GCP services
• Interest and initial experience in agentic generative AI
• Interpersonal skills with various stakeholders (product, architects, finance)
• Pedagogical skills and enjoyment of facilitation
• Rigor and autonomy in delivering fixed-deadline deliverables
• Synthesis skills and ability to formalize
• Team: Transverse FinOps team for cloud across departments.
• Role: The consultant supports the Lead FinOps on specific missions
• Areas Covered:
• Generative AI (GenAI) services
• Product teams and product owners
• Architects
• Finance and management control team
• PMO and management
• Lead FinOps
• Other stakeholders, particularly on GenAI
• FinOps Community
• AWS, GCP, S3NS
• Generative AI: Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Mistral
• Microsoft Power Platform
• Jira
• Confluence
• SharePoint
• Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Automate)
• AI Agents (as available)
• AWS: Cost Explorer, Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection / Management, Compute Optimizer, Pricing Calculator, CUDOS
• GCP: FinOps Hub, BigQuery, Looker Studio
• Location: Bordeaux (1st choice), Lyon (2nd), Paris (3rd)
• On-site presence required

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 1 an renouvelable
• Location: Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, FR
• Languages: French