Senior Systems Engineer – Cloud FinOps and Automation

JOB SUMMARY

The Sr. Systems Engineer – Cloud FinOps & Automation will be a technical expert responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cost-efficient cloud systems and applications that support core customer facing and enterprise facing products and platforms. In this role, the SSE will work closely with the Application, Infrastructure & Network teams to analyze the cloud infrastructure and identify opportunities for cost optimization. The role will help in identifying cost optimization opportunities by reviewing usage patterns, billing data, and cloud service utilization and will be responsible for developing and implementing cost optimization strategies to reduce the cost of cloud services while maintaining service quality and performance. In this role the SSE will collaborate with other technical teams, such as software engineering, data engineering, EA and DevOps, to ensure that cloud-based applications are designed with cost efficiency in mind. The role will implement an operating model of innovative cost savings and optimization solutions for Marriott across public cloud providers.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required:

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification 
• 7+ years experience in information technology including:
  • 5+ years’ experience in Cloud technologies including Iaas/Paas/Saas deployments on Public Cloud (AWS, AliCloud, Azure).
  • 3+ years of experience in developing and implementing FinOps/Cloud Cost Optimization strategies for AWS services.
  • 3+ years of experience in OS scripting and automation (e.g. Python, Bash)
• Experience with FinOps/Cloud Cost Management tools and be comfortable with data analysis and reporting
• Proven analytical skills and experience with cost optimization
• Experience managing multi-million-dollar accounts
• Deep understanding with cloud costs and the various alternatives
• Proven ability to drive efficiencies and cost savings with savings and cost optimization mindset

Preferred:

• 2+ years of experience in administering and implementing automation in public Cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
• 2+ years of experience in container operations (such as Docker, OpenShift Enterprise, GKE, ECS). and orchestration (such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and engineering large-scale distributed systems
• Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience learning and applying new technologies to solve business needs
• Excellent problem-solving skills by working independently and through leading outcomes for cross functional teams.
• Experience across many of the following platforms:
  • Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, Windows, CentOS
  • Storage: Block Storage, Object Storage, Lifecycle Management and Data Replication, Backup & Recovery Best Practices.
  • Security: Compliance, Information Assurance, Data Protection using industry-best practices and tooling (Crowdstrike Falcon, Tenable.io, Splunk Phantom, HashiCorp Vault signers, SHA1 and SHA2 certificatemanagement).
  • Database: Relational (Oracle, DB2, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server), non-relational (Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB, DocumentDB).
• Strong knowledge of emerging tools, software, applications, and systems for attaining best-in-class IT across the enterprise.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders and IT teams
• Understanding of automated ITCM/ITRM best practices

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

• Key responsibilities include: 
  • Analyzing cloud usage - Monitoring cloud usage patterns, resource utilization, and spending to identify areas for improvement
  • Optimizing costs - Analyzing, optimizing, and implementing cost optimization actions across different cloud services
  • Automating tools - Implementing and managing automated tools to help identify cost trends and anomalies
  • Creating dashboards - Creating financial and usage dashboards
  • Collaborating with teams - Working with finance and business teams to align cloud spending with budgetary constraints
• Provides technical leadership, oversight, governance and direction for services related to Marriott solution delivery
• Provides technical expertise to project team for successful project and change im