Rackspace Technology is hiring a
Cloud Business Consultant

Summary

Join our Cloud Optimizer team as a FinOps Consultant (Cloud Business Consultant) to help customers efficiently orchestrate their cloud resources. You will be working with data and presenting conclusions clearly, engaging with customers, understanding their needs, and helping them accomplish their goals.

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience supporting technology products or services in some capacity
• Must be able to “talk tech” credibly with engineers and developers
• Customer relationship management with some experience directly managing key stakeholder relationships
• Data analysis and the ability to turn data into insights
• Ability to work with our data visualization portal and easily grasp day-to-day tasks such as trend analysis and anomaly detection
• Must be a pro-level user of Excel and be comfortable creating summaries and visuals (pivot tables and charts) to support ad-hoc report delivery
• Familiarity with any advanced data analysis tools is a plus but not required; for example: Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, SQL, etc. We use Alteryx extensively
• Excellent communication skills, both client-facing and internal
• Proven ability to lead meetings with C-level executives
• Ability to prepare clear and concise documentation (MS Word, PowerPoint)

Responsibilities

• You will be assigned to 10-15 enterprise cloud customers
• Prepare in-depth analyses using big data and present to high-level stakeholders at our largest clients
• Prepare supporting documentation and reports for those reviews
• Work with other Rackspace teams (professional services and managed services) to support the delivery of cloud management projects and support best practices
• Provide financial analysis of client cloud spend including trend reporting, identification of opportunities for cloud optimization, and outlining recommendations and proposals for optimization projects
• Demonstrate expertise in knowledge of the AWS platform, guiding each client in their utilization of AWS services
• Provide onboarding services to new Rackspace Cloud Optimizer customers
• Support the sales team in new business activities, as needed
• Work on assigned key initiatives, including new service offerings, profitability analysis, tool assessments, marketing initiatives, etc

Benefits

Remote work