Site Reliability Engineer - FinOps Analyst

Johnson Controls Inc. seeks a Site Reliability Engineer - FinOps Analyst at its facility located at 5757 North Green Bay Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53209.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Help the team identify and manage global software and hosted cloud spend, compile and distribute financial reports for Business owners. Visualize the data via reports and educate and advise the customers on application and infrastructure costs. Track, analyse, and report on software and cloud expenditures to ensure alignment with budgetary constraints and organizational financial goals. Work closely with Engineering teams to optimize, reduce costs and adopt savings plans. Partner with product teams to plan, allocate, and optimize budgets for upcoming fiscal years, improving overall financial efficiency. Identify and automate manual processes to improve operational efficiency and reporting. Evaluate cloud cost drivers and recommend strategies to reduce overall spend. Build and present detailed financial forecasts for product spending to enable data driven decisions by cross-functional stakeholders. Discover and promote compliance and spend management issues in the cloud by working with multiple product teams. Serve as an expert in cost analysis, financial modelling, and strategic recommendations. Work with individuals across SRE, finance, procurement, and engineering as well as senior leadership in support of our cloud financial objectives. Assist in budgeting, forecasting and long range planning of cloud spend. Monitor and support security and compliance initiatives, including assessing security baselines, organizational compliance requirements, access governance, auditability, and operational efficiency. Telecommuting: 2 days per week.

REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Management, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering or a related field. Plus 2 years of experience as a SRE Cloud Engineer, Cloud FinOps Analyst or in an occupation involving systems engineering, technical management, and financial analysis. Additionally, the applicant must have employment experience with: (1) Cloud services like compute services, storage, databases, container orchestration platforms, etc; (2) Azure Cost Management, Budgeting & Forecasting: Monitor and optimize Azure cloud spend, identify cost drivers and savings opportunities, and deliver accurate budget, forecast, and variance insights to stakeholders; (3) FinOps Governance & Cost Allocation: Enforce tagging standards, ownership models, and charge/show back practices to improve cloud cost visibility and accountability; (4) Utilizing automation tools like Power Automate or programming languages like Python, Shell script to reliably automate repetitive manual processes; (5) Utilizing predictive analysis to estimate software and cloud costs, and set financial budgets; (6) Leveraging software APIs to interface multiple tools, extract or update data autonomously to reduce manual processes; (7) Utilizing SQL and Excel for exploratory data analysis and reporting; (8) Building reports using Power BI or similar BI tools; and (9) Analyzing and implementing best practices to maintain the security of cloud products.

RATE OF PAY: $81,058.00 - $95,219.80 per year

Applicants who are interested in this position should apply by emailing their resume to Sarath.Kancharla@jci.com. Must Reference: Site Reliability Engineer - FinOps Analyst Ref# SRE-RHU

*This position is eligible for benefits under the Johnson Controls, Inc. Employee Referral Program, which includes specific incentives for referring employees.

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