Cloud Service Provider Costing Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $106k - $176k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Guidehouse

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

💰 Grant on 2023-02

Healthcare • Defense • Logistics

Guidehouse is a global consultancy offering advisory, digital, and managed services across commercial and public sectors. It is purpose-built to support industries such as national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Guidehouse collaborates with leaders to navigate complexity and drives transformational changes that impact the future. Their expertise spans data analytics, digital technologies, risk management, and more, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and innovation.

📋 Description

• Develop comprehensive Microsoft Azure cost estimates, financial models, and total cost of ownership analyses for enterprise workload migration, modernization, and hosting decisions • Evaluate and compare financial implications of on-premises infrastructure, Azure VMware Solution, Azure-native IaaS and PaaS, and other commercial cloud platforms • Analyze Azure pricing structures, Microsoft licensing models, consumption-based charges, reservations, savings plans, data transfer costs, and commercial purchasing agreements • Assess infrastructure configurations, resource utilization, application requirements, and workload characteristics to establish cost baselines and forecast future cloud expenditures • Evaluate cloud provider pricing, purchasing options, discounts, licensing considerations, and contractual factors • Collaborate with cloud engineers, solution architects, and technical stakeholders on architecture, infrastructure sizing, migration, and modernization decisions • Develop cloud cost optimization recommendations covering resource sizing, consumption patterns, licensing, reservations, savings plans, and service selection • Use Azure Pricing Calculator, Azure Cost Management, Azure Migrate, Microsoft Excel, and related tools to develop estimates, analyze expenditures, validate assumptions, and maintain cloud cost models • Develop financial comparisons, forecasts, and business cases documenting assumptions, cost drivers, tradeoffs, risks, and projected outcomes • Present cloud cost analyses and recommendations to technical, business, and executive stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• SIX (6+) years of experience in cloud financial management, IT infrastructure costing, cloud pricing analysis, or related technical financial disciplines • University degree or FOUR (4) years experience in lieu of formal education • Demonstrated hands-on experience independently developing detailed Microsoft Azure pricing estimates, cloud financial models, and TCO analyses for enterprise infrastructure and application workloads • Strong practical knowledge of Azure consumption pricing, Microsoft licensing, reservations, savings plans, data transfer charges, and commercial cloud purchasing models • Ability to translate infrastructure configurations, resource utilization, workload requirements, and architectural designs into detailed cloud consumption forecasts and cost estimates • Experience evaluating and comparing financial implications of cloud migration, modernization, and hosting alternatives, including Azure IaaS, PaaS, and VMware-based environments • Experience with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) purchasing arrangements, negotiated pricing, and cloud licensing considerations • Working knowledge of Azure infrastructure architecture, including compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services • Experience using Azure Pricing Calculator, Azure Cost Management, Azure Migrate, or comparable cloud financial management and estimation tools • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and ability to independently develop, validate, document, and maintain complex cloud cost models • Ability to develop financial analyses, document assumptions, and communicate cost comparisons, financial tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders • Ability to obtain Public Trust clearance • FinOps Certified Practitioner certification, Microsoft Azure certifications, or comparable cloud financial management credentials are nice to have, not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays • Parental Leave • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Group Term Life and Travel Assistance • Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance • Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities • Employee Referral Program • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach • Care.com annual membership • Employee Assistance Program • Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.) • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus • Flexible benefits package

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