Cloud Finops Lead New - Waterloo, Canada - Definity Financial Corporation

Definity Financial Corporation
Definity Financial Corporation
Verified Company
Waterloo, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Job


ID :
7300

Category :
Technology Solutions


Brand :
Definity


Regular/Temporary :
Regular


Fulltime/Parttime :
Full Time


Location :
Waterloo, Canada

Posting Range :
$77,700 - $157,000


Definity is the parent company to some of Canada's most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance.

Our ambition is to be one of Canada's leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers.

We can't do that without our people, so we embrace and encourage a culture that's collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.


We offer a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with.

Bring your true self and be a part of our journey. It's better here.


The Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) Lead facilitates Cloud financial management through interaction with key stakeholders establishing practices and processes that enable cloud spend management.

This role establishes cloud budgetary practices, cost controls, and reporting to enable key stakeholders to manage their cloud costs.

This role established the financial management and cultural practices with key technology and business partners to maximize our cloud financial investments.


What can you expect in this role?

Cloud Economics Practice Development

  • Establish the central standards, policies, and governance practices which enable key stakeholders to manage cloud finances.
  • Ensure business and technology functions are adopting and adhering to leading cloud financial management practices.
  • Drive the decisions and management of the Cloud FinOps working group ensuring continual improvement of cloud financial management.
  • Work with Engineers, Developers, and Key Business leads from other teams to develop tools and practices that optimize the spend of cloud solutions.

Cloud Financial Reporting

  • Develop and implement chargeback and show back methodologies for cloud services ensuring ROI on cloud spend and investments.
  • Manage the cloud budget monitoring, reviews and reporting.

Program Support

  • Collaborate in estimating delivery work necessary to realize a requirement through the development lifecycle.
  • Support the development of the cloud strategy.

What do you bring to the role?

  • Bachelor of science degree (or equivalent) in computer science, engineering, or relevant field.
  • 5+ years combination of cloud design, technical implementation, and infrastructure architecture experience.
  • Experience with capacity forecasting, cloud cost optimization techniques, financial reporting, and workflow management.
  • Professional level cloud certification preferred.
  • Ability to develop effective reporting metrics to maintain strong control on usage and billing of cloud services.
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (Cost Explorer, CUDOS Dashboard), GCP (Cost Management, Looker)
  • Technologies: JFrog Artifactory, Vault, Terraform, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, ArgoCD
  • Scripting and

Programming Languages:
Bash, Python, Node, Ruby, Go

  • Container Platforms: Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, Anthos, Docker"
  • Understanding of cloud providers, platforms and configurations and familiarity with workload usage/consumption patterns on cloud.
  • Excellent problemsolving skills.
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure.
  • Effective communication skills (verbal, written)

Salary range:
$77,700 - $157,000


What's in it for you?

  • Hybrid work schedule for most roles
  • Company share ownership program
  • Pension and savings programs, with companymatched RRSP contributions
  • Paid volunteer days and company matching on charitable donations
  • Educational resources, tuition assistance, and paid time off to study for exams
  • Focus on inclusion with employee groups, support for gender affirmation surgery, access to BIPOC counsellors, access to programs for working parents
  • Wellness and recognition programs
  • Discounts on products and services

Go ahead and expect a lot — you deserve it.
It's better here — but don't take our word for it.

Definity was named by Great Place to Work as one of the Best Workplaces in Canada for women, for youth, and for inclusion.


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This role requires successful clearance of background checks (including criminal checks and leadership references).

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