Senior FinOps Engineer

Summary

Join NBCUniversal's Engineering Experience team as a Cloud Enablement & Acceleration FinOps member! Design, implement, and manage robust data pipelines to create dashboards providing actionable insights into infrastructure costs and utilization. Collaborate with stakeholders, integrating business metrics with cost data to drive financial accountability and technological advancement. Build high-quality data pipelines, ELT processes, and dashboards informing strategic and operational decisions. Be part of a team building world-class systems to improve development workflows and productivity. Contribute to creating world-class tools and experiences in a collaborative, continuously improving environment that values all ideas. This fully remote position offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, and tuition reimbursement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, experience, and training in Computer Science, Data Science or a related field
• 5+ years' experience as part of a team building reporting, business intelligence, and analytics solutions
• Applied experience with Public Cloud Governance and FinOps best practices
• Applied experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Tableau, Looker, or QuickSight
• Applied experience analyzing cost and usage patterns of various systems that span across multiple clouds and data centers
• Ability to understand the cost breakdown of infrastructure, cloud services, and other resources used by the applications
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems
• Practical knowledge and experience building and optimizing data pipelines leveraging new technologies, i.e. Python, AWS S3, Lambda
• Excellent communicator and relationship builder to both business and technical teams
• Passion for FinOps culture, automation, and modern tooling
• A strong passion for learning and improvement
• Strive for excellence and appreciation of detail

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage robust data pipelines to develop dashboards that deliver actionable insights into our infrastructure costs and utilization patterns
• Collaborate within our team, and with other stakeholders, integrating essential business metrics with detailed cost data to drive financial accountability and technological advancement
• Build high-quality, production-grade data pipelines, ELT processes, and dashboards that will inform strategic and operational decisions

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong proficiency of Cloud Governance and FinOps best practices
• Experience with cloud cost management tooling, i.e. Cloudability, CloudHealth
• Basic familiarity with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud platforms; ability to navigate and understand fundamental tools and concepts within these environments
• Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests required. Continuous delivery experience preferred
• Experience delivering software using an agile development process
• Ability to work and participate in a team with an open and collaborative style of communications
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a cross-functional team
• Ability to jump into a project and contribute immediately to both architecture and implementation

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid leave
• Tuition reimbursement