FinOps Specialist

At Sandvik Group IT, we’re now looking for a FinOps Specialist to join our Cloud area. We welcome you to an exciting role with the opportunity to create your own success!

We provide Sandvik with IT infrastructure, systems and business critical solutions, and are on a journey to reach higher levels of business agility and to strengthen the empowerment of our development and operation teams. Our vision is to stay a trusted and driving partner in Sandvik’s accelerating and ambitious digitalization journey.

About your job

In this position, you act as an expert in your field, as you develop best practices and usage examples, monitor our cloud spend daily and prepare weekly and monthly reports to review. You collate, analyze and prioritize cloud optimization recommendations and calculate potential savings, both for central commitments and for subscription specific commitments. Included in your job are also tasks related to billing and invoicing. By working closely together with engineering teams, you implement cost optimization recommendations. You also collaborate with product and app owners, engineers, architects and Business Area CIO’s to manage and share best practices to create even better solutions!

Included in your responsibility:

• Provide expert knowledge of cloud cost optimization strategies – for example rightsizing or power scheduling.
• Regularly track, monitor and report on RI/SP savings, coverage and utilization.
• Assist with quarterly updates to public cloud spend forecasts.
• Optimize cost allocation and tagging strategy to eliminate or minimize unallocated cloud spend.
• Track all savings opportunities, including decisions, on right-sizing recommendations.
• Leverage experience by undertaking additional responsibilities as required, such as billing and reporting.

The location for this position is either at our site in Gasverket in Stockolm or at Sandbacka Park in Sandviken. We offer you a hybrid work schedule where you can spend some of your days working remotely.

About you

We’re looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree in finance, computer science or information systems, combined with experience of Cloud FinOps within a large enterprise or cloud spend optimization. You have a FinOps Practitioner certification, and we see it as beneficial if you also have a FinOps Professional certification. Acting in a global environment calls for excellent English skills, verbally and in writing. Knowledge in Swedish is a plus.

Other skills needed:

• Practical knowledge of cloud provider cost management capabilities and pricing models.
• Experience with Azure and Azure cost management tools as well as in building custom reports and dashboards.
• Experience with cloud economics, services and pricing models.
• Working knowledge of cloud cost management tooling or cloud cost optimization platforms.
• Experience with reserved instances and saving plan recommendations, tagging policies, forecasting, anomaly detection and lifecycle policies.
• Beneficial is experience with AWS and previous work with change management.

Yes, hard skills are important, however, it all comes down to how you are as a person! We see a true team player with a problem solving and proactive mindset who happily shares knowledge. Your knowledge and feeling in both change and business relationship management are perfect assets in your job. With your analytical skills you collect, coordinate and present sophisticated data to a variety of audiences. In this matter, your excellent communication skills really come in handy as you can explain so it makes sense to someone lacking all the pieces.

Our culture

Our role is clear – through every action, every day, we make the shift and advance the world through engineering. We believe in an inclusive, equal and open-minded culture, and we nurture our diversities to form a solid foundation for achieving great results. Add fair and rewarding benefits, as well as many different career options.

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact Anna Westling, recruiting manager, [email protected]

We have already decided on which advertising channels and marketing campaigns we wish to use, and respectfully decline any additional contacts in that matter.

Union contacts – Sweden

• Anders Rönnqvist, Unionen, +46 (0)70 616 41 21
• Göran Norell, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)70 616 43 78
• Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, +46 (0)70 222 48 55

Recruitment Specialist: Lotta Amnebjer Nordqvist

How to apply

Send your application no later than May 9th, 2024. Click apply and include your resume and cover letter in English. Please note that we don’t accept applications by e-mail. Job ID: R0066236.

As we aim for a fair recruitment process, we utilize assessment tools to safeguard objectivity. When you apply for this job, you will therefore receive an invitation via email to a personality and logic ability test. Feedback comes immediately after the test has been completed and the selection process begins after the application deadline.

To learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our career site or contact HR Services at [email protected].