Principal Consultant

3 days ago


Wellington City, New Zealand Datacom Full time

About the role

Are you looking to take the leap and build a career in Public Cloud, FinOps/Cloud Financial Management (CFM) and Digital Transformation?
Our consultants are doing just that as trusted advisors providing thought leadership and expertise in cloud use transparency, cost efficiency, governance, and cultural change.
As a Principal Consultant, you'll lead our customer engagements, assessing their needs, developing and implementing a CFM roadmap, and guiding our customers in meeting their FinOps Goals.
This a flexible and varied role working as part of a diverse, close-knit team across a range of customers, making use of our collective experience and skills to:

- Be a trusted advisor for how best to manage and mature our customer's CFM practice
- Guide and inspire our customers on how to meet their Cloud management goals
- Lead workshops, training, business process design and governance content creation
- Participate in continuous improvement of our products and service delivery
- Own the end-to-end customer outcome

**About you**:

- You'll be a Cloud Native who understands and is inspired by the benefits of Cloud, emerging technology, automation, and enabling a FinOps culture.
- Have direct experience with Microsoft's Azure platform, Azure billing programs and managing Cloud spend in the Azure platform (AWS and GCP experience useful as well)
- Have a broad understanding of Public Cloud financial and technical concepts and cloud delivery models.
- Have a working knowledge of Cloud Adoption and Well Architected Frameworks leveraged by Hyperscale Cloud Vendors.
- Understand Business and Commercial concepts e.g. corporate structure, Capex/Opex reporting requirements, commercial agreements, budget/forecast and planning strategy etc...
- Have worked with Cloud Native and 3rd Party Cloud Platform Management tooling, e.g. AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, Cloudhealth, Cloudability etc...
- Understand of cloud cost and usage optimisation and cloud governance.
- Have 2+ years of experience working with Cloud Commercials and AWS or/and Azure.
- Have 2+ Years of managing client engagements or managing cloud estates for an end-user company

We'll provide you with the support you need to help develop your career.
You'll be part of a strong collaborative culture and work with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to solve important challenges, turning the imaginable into reality

**Our benefits include**:
Access to significant learning and career planning tools to help you develop and grow
Flexible working arrangement
13 Weeks of paid parental leave
Non-Contributory Health Insurance
Income Protection Insurance
Life and Trauma Insurance
Access to the Datacom staff discount Program



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