[s3ns] Finops Engineer GCP (H/F)

Finops Consultant

S3NS is born from the industrial partnership between Thales, a global leader in cyber security, and Google Cloud, a world leader in cloud solutions. We aim to offer the best of both worlds to all organizations concerned with protecting their sensitive data (public institutions, IOV, OSE…). That is a solution equivalent to Google Cloud Platform (including both IaaS and PaaS services of GCP) and respecting the requirements of the SecNumCloud label.

A first offer, 'Local Controls with S3NS', has been available since February 2023 to allow our clients to benefit from an initial level of transparency and additional controls, and to accelerate the trajectory towards the trusted cloud.

Your missions revolve around the three fundamental pillars of FinOps — Information, Optimization, and Industrialization — complemented by the deployment of a maturity benchmark to drive continuous improvement plans.

Your scope includes controlling internal expenses as well as the financial support and accompaniment of client accounts.

1. Visibility and Cost Allocation (Inform)

• Implement rigorous tagging and labeling strategies to ensure 100% visibility on expenses.
• Create and maintain monitoring dashboards (Looker) for different Business Units.
• Analyze cost variations and identify consumption anomalies in real time.

2. Cost Optimization (Optimize)

• Identify underutilized or 'orphan' resources (unused instances, unattached storage volumes).
• Recommend advanced purchasing strategies: Reserved Instances (RI), Savings Plans, and the use of Spot Instances.
• Collaborate with architects to optimize resource sizing (Rightsizing).

3. Governance and Culture (Operate)

• Lead steering committees between Finance and Tech.
• Define key performance indicators (KPI) such as Unit Economic Cost (e.g., cloud cost per transaction or per user).
• Establish budgets and alerting systems to empower application owners.

Your Profile:

You hold a Bac+5 degree from an Engineering or Computer Science school, with a strong affinity for financial management (or vice versa). You have at least 5 years of experience in a similar position.

You are proficient in the practices around querying and manipulating raw billing data from GCP via BigQuery and SQL. You have already operated data in a web environment of data visualization and manipulation modules (NodeJS/React).

Finops certifications are a plus.