Senior Cloud Business Consultant

Summary

Join Rackspace Technology as a Senior Cloud Business Consultant (FinOps) and work directly with enterprise clients to align their cloud technology adoption with their business strategies. Advise major AWS, GCP, and Azure customers on FinOps topics, including cloud financial management, organizational governance, and cost allocation. Guide clients through their FinOps journey, advising, tracking progress, and implementing cloud financial management roadmaps. Contribute to team strategy development, market awareness, and identifying new opportunities for deeper customer engagement. This remote role is available in Ontario, British Columbia, or Alberta, Canada. You will manage high-impact engagements, build client and internal stakeholder relationships, and deliver recommendations on various FinOps topics. You will also enable clients to understand and use their cloud data and support large contractual negotiations.

Requirements

• Foundational knowledge of AWS, Azure or GCP, preferably AWS
• Deep understanding of public cloud FinOps best practices
• Understanding of other core public cloud functionality, such as AWS organizational structure, IAM roles and policies, Private Pricing Programs, as well as an understanding of how a cloud resale business operates
• Strong data analysis skills and the ability to translate data into insights in a simple and elegant way
• High School Diploma or regional equivalent required
• Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in field related to role
• 3 - 5 years of experience in Public Cloud FinOps, Cloud Consulting or Cloud Strategy required

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver fast-paced, high-impact engagements with enterprise companies, resulting in further adoption of FinOps best practices and increased cloud maturity for our customers
• Build relationships with client-side and internal stakeholders across various business groups to drive successful engagements
• Deliver recommendations on topics ranging from cloud financial management, budgets, showback and chargeback, organizational management, policy and governance, and other topics related to FinOps
• The potential to serve as a multi-cloud subject-matter expert, helping clients plan and execute efficient adoption and integration of cloud technologies and platforms across all three hyperscalers, AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Enable clients to understand and use their cloud data across technical and non-technical business units
• The ability to support large contractual negotiations, such as the AWS Private Pricing Program
• Excellent data analysis skills and strong comfort in data presentation using tools such as Excel, PowerBI, Alteryx, SQL and other data analysis techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to reach a wide range of senior technology leaders both within our organization and with our customers

Preferred Qualifications

• FinOps certifications preferred
• Background in business, finance or engineering preferred
• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect) preferred
• Bonus points for Cloud Management Platform experience (e.g., CloudHealth, Flexera, Apptio, etc.)
• Bonus points for FinOps foundation certifications (e.g., FinOps Certified Practitioner, FOCUS Analyst, etc.)

Benefits

Remote work, flexible hours