Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

As an experienced member of our Cloud FinOps Team, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate around solving business problems through innovation and cloud industry best practices. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers. You will work with customer’s financial and technical teams to gather business requirements, identify capability gaps, craft roadmaps, and implement solutions. Participative and collaborative in team knowledge sharing sessions. You drive optimization through discovery, development, and sharing of cost-saving opportunities e.g., translating financial insights into actionable recommendations.

What You Will Do:

• Solve business problems through innovation, automation, and cloud engineering best practices.
• Assist our customers in with their cloud budget, analyzing, and optimizing their cloud spend.
• Participate and/or conduct knowledge sharing sessions with your team and/or our business partners.
• Presentations to leadership
• Drive optimization through discovery, development, and sharing of cost-saving opportunities e.g., translating financial insights & your cloud knowledge into actionable recommendations.
• Work with customer’s financial and technical teams to gather business requirements, identify capability gaps, craft roadmaps, and implement solutions.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention to detail, and oral & written communications skills.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of relevant experience in Cloud FinOps / Cloud spend optimization
• FinOps Practitioner Certification required
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification required
• FinOps Professional and/or advanced AWS Certifications a plus
• Experience using AWS Cost Explorer and other AWS Cost Management tools
• Experience with cloud economics, AWS services, and AWS pricing models
• Experience in the following:
• Apptio CloudAbility
• Tableau
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS EC2, EKS, RDS, Autoscaler, etc.
• Act as SME in working groups to develop best practices and usage examples
• AWS APIs to extract data from the above tools for additional transformation and analysis
• AWS QuickSight and/or Cloud Intelligence Dashboards
• Microsoft Azure
• SAFe Agile preferred
• Experience with cloud management platforms or cloud billing systems
• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines is a plus
• Familiarity in multiple modern programming languages (e.g. Java, Python) is a plus
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
• Keen understanding of financial control and budget management
• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals
• Provide accounting and payment details of cloud bills
• Prepare monthly slide decks for Cloud Finance/Cost Optimization for all Business Units
• Research and identify cloud cost optimization and opportunities as part of a continuous improvement model.
• Drive optimization through discovery, development, and sharing of cost-saving opportunities e.g., translating financial insights into actionable recommendations
• Produce measurements, reports and recommended improvement plans for financial excellence in the cloud.
• Create custom reports giving personalized recommendations to customers based on budget, best practices, timeline, and goals
• Create cost and usage analyses, trending and forecasting reports, buying strategies, and best practices for cloud adoption
• Stay educated on the latest cost optimization strategies and technologies; gather insights and develop new opinions and strategies around cloud optimization and present solutions to leadership
• Strong oral and written communication skills required
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets); experience analyzing large datasets
• Confluence
• Jira

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join the Richmond Fed, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits
• Pension and 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee resource networks
• Paid volunteer leave
• Flexible work options
• Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify rich.recruitment@rich.frb.org.
• Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).
• Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship or three or more years of Permanent Resident (Green Card) status.
• For candidates outside Richmond, VA, listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.
• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.
• The hiring range for Advisor – IT- Senior is $112,400 – $140,500 annually.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by March 12, 2024.
• The individual selected for this role is expected to work a hybrid schedule and will be required to be onsite regularly in their FRB District location.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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