Senior Systems Engineer - Cloud FinOps and Automation

$58,000 - $110,000/Yr

Marriott International - Lincoln, NE

Full-time - Senior

Lincoln, NE

Accommodation

About the position

The Senior Systems Engineer - Cloud FinOps & Automation at Marriott is a pivotal role that combines technical expertise with strategic oversight in managing cloud systems and applications. This position is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cost-efficient cloud solutions that support both customer-facing and enterprise-facing products. The Senior Systems Engineer (SSE) will collaborate closely with various teams, including Application, Infrastructure, and Network teams, to analyze the existing cloud infrastructure and identify opportunities for cost optimization. This involves reviewing usage patterns, billing data, and cloud service utilization to develop and implement strategies aimed at reducing cloud service costs while ensuring high service quality and performance. In this role, the SSE will be tasked with creating an innovative operating model that promotes cost savings and optimization solutions across public cloud providers. The position requires a deep understanding of cloud costs and the ability to drive efficiencies and cost savings through a savings and cost optimization mindset. The SSE will also be responsible for providing technical leadership and governance for services related to Marriott's solution delivery, ensuring that cloud-based applications are designed with cost efficiency in mind. The candidate will be expected to analyze cloud usage, optimize costs, automate tools, create dashboards, and collaborate with finance and business teams to align cloud spending with budgetary constraints. Additionally, the SSE will provide input into lifecycle, improvement, and standardization strategies, develop utilization reports, and present status and analysis to internal stakeholders and senior leadership. This role also includes mentoring team members and leading the analysis of the current environment to identify deficiencies and propose solutions.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing cloud usage patterns, resource utilization, and spending to identify areas for improvement.
• Optimizing costs by analyzing, implementing, and optimizing cost actions across different cloud services.
• Implementing and managing automated tools to help identify cost trends and anomalies.
• Creating financial and usage dashboards for better visibility.
• Collaborating with finance and business teams to align cloud spending with budgetary constraints.
• Providing technical leadership, oversight, governance, and direction for services related to Marriott solution delivery.
• Determining customer requirements and developing solutions with sourced resources.
• Developing and generating periodic utilization reports to provide visibility to performance, capacity, availability, and SLA management.
• Utilizing capacity data to model future state planning with overall strategy and goals.
• Providing and presenting status, analysis, and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management, and Senior Leadership.
• Training and mentoring other team members and peers as appropriate.
• Leading analysis of the current environment for deficiencies and providing solutions.
• Developing implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for projects and tasks.
• Responsible for project inception including requirements gathering and architecting, costs and chargeback modeling, infrastructure-as-code development, and configuration management.
• Working with Enterprise Architecture to provide technology and cloud native service governance for technology steering committees.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification.
• 7+ years experience in information technology.
• 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 comfort with data analysis and reporting.
• Proven analytical skills and experience with cost optimization.
• Experience managing multi-million-dollar accounts.
• Deep understanding of cloud costs and various alternatives.
• Proven ability to drive efficiencies and cost savings with a savings and cost optimization mindset.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• 401k retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities
• Employee discount programs