Cloud Financial Operations Analyst

Summary

Join Datadog's Cloud FinOps team as a Cloud Financial Operations Analyst to optimize cloud cost savings. You will manage reservation commitments for AWS, Azure, and GCP, leveraging Datadog tools and your analytical skills. Responsibilities include building reservation models, analyzing cost data, and collaborating with engineering and finance teams. The ideal candidate possesses experience in cloud reservation management, strong analytical abilities, excellent communication skills, and a collaborative spirit. Datadog offers competitive compensation, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package, including professional development opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Experienced in managing the reservation purchasing and management process on behalf of engineers who use the resources
• Analytical and detail oriented by nature, sweating the details to get the most out of key operational processes
• Comfortable modeling complex cloud cost concepts and analyzing cost datasets using spreadsheets, BI visualization tools, and possibly SQL
• An excellent communicator, demonstrating experience in partnering with clients
• Fluent in the languages of both Engineering and Finance
• A team player, excited to collaborate with others to achieve common goals and open to the ideas and feedback of others
• Thrive in making high-pressure decisions after thorough analysis, and ability to communicate decision logic to various stakeholders
• Naturally inquisitive with a bias for action and comfortable with ambiguity

Responsibilities

• Help drive efforts to purchase and manage an inventory of reservation commitments on behalf of the whole Engineering organization - this includes Reserved Instances and Savings Plans for AWS and Azure as well as Committed Use Discounts for GCP
• Use Datadog cloud cost tools, SQL, spreadsheet wizardry, and your communication network within Engineering to build reservation models, prove out the best strategic options, anticipate usage changes, and ultimately purchase reservations that optimize our savings
• Work on other cost savings efforts, cost visibility, and supporting our partners in Finance

Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits
• Healthcare
• Dental
• Parental planning
• Mental health benefits
• A 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• A discounted employee stock purchase plan