Principal Solution Architect - Cost Optimization

$204,400 - $296,400/Yr

Salesforce - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Senior

Seattle, WA

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Cloud FinOps Architect at Salesforce is a key role focused on optimizing cloud infrastructure costs and enhancing resource utilization. This position involves collaborating with various teams to develop and implement strategies for cost-effective cloud solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives while maintaining high service quality. The role requires a strong technical background in cloud operations and financial management, with a focus on driving continuous cost efficiencies and leveraging AI for data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic innovation and architectural excellence that aligns with Salesforce's transformation journey in the public cloud
• Collaborate with various infrastructure teams to analyze cloud usage patterns, identify areas for cost efficiency, determine variance causes, and provide transparency into results
• Leverage AI models to analyze cost and usage data to provide insights into cost-saving opportunities and develop cost models for new initiatives influencing architectural decisions and providing inputs to business drivers
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Application teams, Operations team, Finance team to maintain cloud spend and environment stability through data analysis, consulting, accurate documentation, and creative problem-solving lens
• Work alongside product teams and development teams across the organization to understand cloud usage patterns and identify optimization opportunities; both technical and functional; and optimize application performance and reduce cloud costs without impacting service quality
• Participate in the design and deployment of highly available and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure solutions on platforms like AWS
• Advise service owners by deeply understanding their architecture and making cloud-optimized recommendations
• Develop and Implement Cloud FinOps policies, processes, training, and guidelines to ensure financial discipline and scale
• Devise a set of Cloud Service cost optimization rules and templates that will be used in architecting/designing Cloud Infrastructure solution
• Participate actively in Cloud architecture discussions to ensure proper cost optimization factors are considered for an efficient solution
• Work with Engineering and Operations team to ensure proper thresholds and alerts are created to track resource usage and cost consumption
• Track and report on cost savings achieved through optimization initiatives

Requirements

• A related technical degree required
• 10+ years of proven related technical experience including 3-5 years of demonstrated ability in Cloud, with experience as a FinOps practitioner
• 8+ years of experience in cloud operations or system administration
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, design and cost optimization
• Operating System and Command Line Tools; Windows System Administration
• Ability to Leverage AI capabilities
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, security principles and compliance requirements for cloud-based solutions
• Experience designing deploying and managing AWS infrastructure
• Proven experience in Cloud Service Cost optimization planning and execution; and with Public cloud financial tools and cost management such as AWS Cost explorer, AWS CUR
• Detailed knowledge of various AWS Cloud service cost tiers and experience in applying knowledge in Cloud solution development
• Experience in driving cost factor in architecture and design phase
• Capability to analyze and identify possible cost optimization, based on service consumptions
• Knowledge/understanding of tagging/grouping of Cloud resources based on a defined taxonomy

Nice-to-haves

• SAAS experience
• Professional cloud architect
• Experience handling major cost-saving projects from inception through post-implementations
• Finops certified practitioner
• AWS certification

Benefits

• Wellbeing reimbursement
• Generous parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Fertility benefits