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Cloud Cost Engineer

extra holidays - extra parental leave - fully flexible
Remote: 
Full Remote
Salary: 
6 - 160K yearly
Work from: 
California (USA), United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance or related field., Experience managing costs in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, K8s, and CloudSql., Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data., Previous experience as DevOps or Infrastructure Engineer is a bonus., Certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Architect are a plus..

Key responsabilities:

  • Provide monthly cloud cost forecasts and ensure alignment with financial planning.
  • Implement internal Cloud Cost Management (CCM) solutions.
  • Identify cost-saving initiatives and provide technical leadership.
  • Offer consulting for new cloud builds focusing on cost optimization.
  • Review Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for potential cost implications.
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Harness Computer Software / SaaS Scaleup https://www.harness.io/
501 - 1000 Employees
HQ: San Francisco
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Job description

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
 
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
Position Summary
As our first Cloud Cost Engineer, you will play a critical role in managing and optimizing cloud expenditures across our organization. You will be responsible for providing accurate spend forecasts, implementing Harness’s internal use of the Harness CCM Module,  and ensuring that all cloud-related costs are effectively monitored and controlled. Your role will involve working closely with development teams, Finance, and the Architecture board to achieve significant cost savings while ensuring efficient cloud utilization.
 
This is a hands-on role, and the engineer will be expected to be comfortable pushing commits to non-prod environments, creating diagrams/documentation, and diving into K8s-manifests, helm-charts, and OpenTofu scripts.
About the role
  • Cost Forecasting:
    • Provide Finance with a comprehensive monthly forecast of cloud costs for the entire cloud estate, ensuring accuracy and alignment with financial planning.
  • CCM Implementation:
    • Own and oversee the implementation of internal Cloud Cost Management (CCM) solutions, ensuring that they are effectively integrated and utilized.
    • Check out Harness' Cloud Cost Management (CCM) product here
  • Cost Savings Achievement:
    • Identify and drive cost-saving initiatives by providing technical leadership or pushing commits. 
  • Internal Consulting and Support:
    • Provide hands-on consulting and support for new cloud builds, focusing on cost optimization strategies to minimize cost while maintaining performance and velocity.
  • ADR Review and Signoff:
    • Review all Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for potential cloud cost implications and provide signoff where appropriate, ensuring cost considerations are incorporated into design decisions.
  • Reservations and Savings Plans Management:
    • Manage cloud reservations and savings plans to maximize cost efficiency and ensure optimal utilization of reserved instances and savings opportunities.
  • Tagging and Labeling Policies:
    • Develop and maintain tagging and labeling policies, as well as implement any necessary technical measures to facilitate accurate and actionable cost reporting.
About you
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Architect) are a plus.
  • Proven experience in hands-on management of costs in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, K8s, and CloudSql
  • Experience as a DevOps or Infrastructure Engineer is a bonus
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data 
  • Owner mentality, with the ability to see a problem and fix it
  • Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with technical and non technical teams alike 
  • Ability to work independently 
  • Willingness to work cross-timezone to collaborate with dev-teams from Silicon Valley to Ireland to Bangalore
  • Ability to understand business impacts of both costs and cost savings
  • Willingness/Desire to teach and evangelize about cloud costs
Work Location

Mountain View, CA or Remote in the U.S.A. 

What you will have at Harness
  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
  • Monthly internet reimbursement

 

Pay transparency
$145,000$160,000 USD

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Industry :
Computer Software / SaaS
Spoken language(s):
English
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