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🕒 April 30

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Thinkahead Consultant Psychologist Pty Ltd

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1 - 10 employees

Thinkahead is a privately owned psychology firm working across both the clinical field of private practice as well as corporate consulting space.

📋 Description

• Analyze cloud spend, usage trends, allocation accuracy, anomalies, and optimization opportunities across AWS, Azure, OCI, and/or GCP using native tooling and approved third-party FinOps platforms. • Identify, quantify, prioritize, and help drive optimization opportunities including rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, storage optimization, licensing alignment, commitment-based savings, and scheduling strategies. • Develop financially grounded findings and recommendations that translate technical observations into clear business value for engineering, finance, procurement, and operational stakeholders. • Create dashboards, reports, budgets, forecasts, showback and chargeback views, executive summaries, and recurring service review content for internal and customer-facing use. • Support cost allocation and tagging activities including governance standards, mapping logic, reporting accuracy, inherited tag strategies, and handling of non-taggable resources. • Partner with CloudOps, platform, application, finance, procurement, and client stakeholders to support implementation of recommendations and validate realized outcomes. • Support onboarding of new clients, accounts, subscriptions, projects, and billing data sources into approved FinOps tooling, reporting workflows, and governance structures. • Perform data validation and reconciliation across billing exports, connectors, cost datasets, and reporting models to improve trust in reported values. • Use spreadsheets, reporting tools, scripting, automation, and process standardization to reduce manual effort, improve repeatability, and increase delivery quality and scale. • Maintain timely ticket updates, work documentation, meeting follow-ups, and internal or customer communications in accordance with service delivery expectations. • Stay current on cloud pricing models, FinOps best practices, and service capabilities while helping refine how the organization delivers cloud cost optimization and advisory services. • Provide occasional after-hours support for client meetings, reporting deadlines, change windows, critical incidents, or urgent cost-related issues when required. • Other job duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum Required - Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, finance, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience. • 3+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud engineering, cloud operations, infrastructure support, cloud cost management, or related disciplines. • Demonstrated experience supporting multi-account, multi-subscription, or enterprise cloud environments. • Hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud provider; strong Azure or AWS experience preferred, with GCP exposure considered a plus. • Experience using cloud cost management, billing analysis, or reporting platforms, whether native cloud tools or approved third-party solutions. • Experience in a customer-facing, stakeholder-facing, consulting, or service delivery role with responsibility for presenting findings and recommendations. • Strong analytical, spreadsheet, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a shared services or multi-client environment. • Preferred - Experience working in a managed services, consulting, or outsourced service delivery environment. • Experience supporting more than one public cloud provider in a FinOps or cost optimization capacity. • Relevant certifications such as FinOps Certified Practitioner, AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications. • Experience with platforms such as Harness CCM, Apptio Cloudability, CloudZero, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, or PowerShell. • Experience with forecasting, budgeting, allocation methodologies, showback or chargeback models, commitment planning, and savings realization tracking. • Familiarity with ticketing and workflow platforms such as ServiceNow, Jira, or similar tools.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401(k) • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.