Cloud Specialist (Finops)

As a Cloud FinOps Specialist within our Managed Services Provider (MSP) division, you will occupy a critical bridge between cloud operations, finance, and client success. You will help clients control, optimize, and govern cloud spending across multiple cloud platforms. Your mission is two-fold: ensuring our operational inventory perfectly aligns with our contractual obligations (preventing uncompensated service delivery) and acting as a strategic advisor to help our clients maximize the value of their cloud investment. Key Responsibilities: 1. MSP Operational Excellence: Inventory & Scope Governance Contractual Reconciliation: Perform quarterly audits to ensure the cloud resource inventory (AWS, Azure, GCP) matches the assets listed in the Client Service Agreement. Revenue Leakage Prevention: Identify "Scope Creep" by detecting new or unmapped resources that the MSP is managing but not yet charging for under the current management fee. Asset Lifecycle Management: Monitor the lifecycle of resources from provisioning to decommissioning to ensure the MSP is only responsible for active, contracted Configuration Items (CIs). Tagging Policy Enforcement: Design and enforce a cross-cloud tagging taxonomy to ensure 100% visibility into which resources belong to which contract, business unit, or service tier. Commitment Utilization: Oversee the allocation of Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans across the multi-tenant environment to ensure contractual performance targets are met. 2. Client Value Delivery: Cost Optimization & Advisory Right-Sizing & Modernization: Analyze client usage patterns to provide actionable recommendations for downsizing over-provisioned resources or moving to more cost-effective instance families. Waste Elimination: Automate the identification and removal of orphaned resources, such as unattached storage volumes, old snapshots, and idle load balancers. Strategic Reporting: Develop and present "Showback" or "Chargeback" reports that provide c…