Cloud Finops Expert

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.

Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

**THE ROLE**:
Reporting to the FinOps manager, the cloud FinOps expert will be responsible to support, improve and monitor cloud spend across CMA CGM Group.

He/She will be in contact with the various Cloud entities to promote cost optimization leveraging.
- Cloud levers like identification of unused resources, capacity reservation, architecture optimization,
- Report & Analysis allowing to track & support optimization identified.
- Support cloud spend budget, forecast, actuals management.
- Prompt analysis of situations and restitution through effective presentations

Tasks and responsibilities will evolve during the different phases of the onboarding; therefore, it is important to be agile in terms of work methodology and be a strong team player.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Leverage Cloud governance to manage costs optimizations & ensure that stakeholders adhere to relevant FINOPS rules & standards.
- Work with the teams at the start of the design to best adjust the cost risk and operational needs.
- Work with Operations teams to create and implement a tagging and alert strategy for cloud resource billing.
- Support consumers in understanding their cloud bills based on their business goals and budget.
- Be proactive in suggesting technical and contractual optimizations for consumption (rightsizing, start/stop, technology improvement, architecture optimization, non-used instances, volume discounts).
- Maintain and evolve the FinOps service catalog, ensuring consolidation, cost tracking and optimization, and visibility of cloud assets.
- Help FINOPS Leader to coordinate FINOPS team.
- Utilizing both Cloud native and third-party cost management toolsets to drive commercial and cost avoidance optimization across Cloud estates.
- Planning and executing Cloud savings plans, reservations, and commitment-based savings plans.
- Identifying consumption trends and future capacity needs of engineering teams.
- Detecting and highlighting anomalies in Cloud usage, working with engineering teams to understand these anomalies.
- Define, track and report performance indicators for cloud consumptions.

**PROFILE AND QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Proven experience in Cloud FINOPS management
- Master cloud services and technologies, especially AWS and Azure.
- Extensive experience in cost management on the cloud, including identifying and implementing cost reduction strategies, including third-party and native tools.
- Programming and automation skills to automate cost management and monitoring processes.
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment and build trusting relationships with different stakeholders.
- Work experience in matrix environment in large international organizations would be ideal.
- Ability to work in a team-oriented environment (with internal and external people) ensuring all key drivers of change are understood and integrated.
- Fluency in French & English.
- Project management skills
- Strong communication skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills and creativity with the ability to hear everyone’s opinions.
- Ability to handle work with a multi-cultural team across geographies.
- Ethics, integrity and respect for the confidentiality of information.
- Good synthesis capabilities

Come along on CMA CGM’s adventure