Published: July 22, 2024 - The Cloud Manager spearheads strategies for optimizing public cloud costs, particularly focusing on Microsoft Azure. This role includes leading a team to enhance cloud cost management tools and processes in alignment with business objectives. Additionally, the manager collaborates with diverse stakeholders to identify and implement cost-saving opportunities and optimize cloud financial commitments.


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1. Cloud Manager, DataSync Technologies, Richmond, VA
Job Summary:
- Define the overall strategy for public cloud cost management and its lifecycle at Bupa, with a particular focus toward Microsoft Azure.
- Lead a small team to operate Bupa’s cloud cost reporting and optimisation capability, self-service cost reporting platform, cost recovery processes and evolving these in line with business and technology objectives.
- Proactively engage stakeholders to understand and manage costs.
- Build constructive relationships with a variety of stakeholders involved with cost, including technology and finance leaders, application owners, engineers, and finance analysts.
- Lead cost optimisation and tracking processes. Identify opportunities to optimise cloud costs and partner with designers, engineers, and technical managers to implement and track the benefits of these opportunities.
- Optimise cloud pricing and rates.
- Oversee a portfolio of cloud financial commitments and consumption and support contractual processes to optimize rates.
- Identify, prioritize, and sequence capabilities required to deliver results for multiple new cross-functional initiatives.
- Identify, track, monitor and facilitate alignment of cross project inter-dependencies
- Lead large scale innovative engagements across workstreams providing subject matter expertise.
- Drive and manage CI/CD pipelines with an eye for future improvements, adding new technologies and onboard suppliers that can help achieving goals faster
Skills on Resume:
- Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
- Cloud Cost Management (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Contract Negotiation (Hard Skills)
- Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
- Continuous Improvement (Soft Skills)
2. Cloud Manager, TechBridge Solutions, Orlando, FL
Job Summary:
- Work in a dynamic, high-energy environment where can share ideas openly, be creative, and test out new marketing initiatives
- Develop and drive creative Sovereign Cloud marketing campaigns and programs to build solution and product awareness within external partners and internal stakeholders
- Influence a cross-functional team that spans marketing, engineering and sales
- Align on different Sovereign Cloud offering requirements, consumption, operations and metering and how can best be used to meet a Sovereign Cloud Partner needs
- Develop and maintain Sovereign Cloud campaigns, enablement, marketing and messaging for partners that aligns to cloud vision and addresses key end customer challenges
- Work with Sovereign Cloud partners marketing units and drive collaborative activities and sales enablement of VMware value and Sovereign Cloud initiative.
- Collaborate with VMware teams to build the whole spectrum of Sovereign Cloud marketing & sales tools and collateral (PowerPoint presentations, datasheets, one pagers, messaging, eBooks, marketing social media packs, sales enablement, customer facing white papers & case studies, demos, and training materials)
- Acquire deep end customer knowledge through market research, segmentation analysis and customer interviews
- Aid build purposeful Sovereign Cloud resources and forward the initiative
- Set and monitor key marketing metrics to ensure business success can be measured and is accountable.
- Form and lead DevOps/Automation guild across VMB Direct business unit.
Skills on Resume:
- Creative Thinking (Soft Skills)
- Campaign Development (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Functional Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Market Research (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Marketing Planning (Hard Skills)
- Sales Enablement (Hard Skills)
- Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
3. Cloud Manager, Cloud Innovate Corp, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Engaging with the various stakeholders, NPD, New IT stack, security, operations and balance out priorities and resources
- Drive improvements and efficiency on our systems keeping constant improvement and drive for excellence
- Leading the cloud and infrastructure team.
- Be the single point of contact for DevOps team in the architecture and design process for one or more application Cloud migrations/development in an cloud agnostic environments
- Developing and Building the automated provisioning and deployment of Cloud infrastructure, services and applications
- Ensuring all resiliency, observability, supportability, security, and operational readiness requirements are met
- Extracting common practices and standards to support Liberty Global security policies and contribute to the wider Virgin Media GCP community
- Implementing DevOps best practice, pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure align to Virgin Media development and automation standards
- Acting as a Cloud SME's and point of contact and escalation for application teams
- Contributing to the migration strategy and drive the best value from the Cloud
- Exercise creativity to see opportunities where data can improve our products and processes and clearly express vision and the business decisions and impacts to be gained from the data.
- Encourage ideation in the team and implement new ways of working that yield benefits to the team.
Skills on Resume:
- Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
- Continuous Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Cloud Infrastructure Management (Hard Skills)
- Automation and Provisioning (Hard Skills)
- Policy Standardization (Hard Skills)
- DevOps Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Creative Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
4. Cloud Manager, NextGen Cloud Services, Phoenix, AZ
Job Summary:
- Define and improve public cloud strategy in close alignment with the technology team, the group as well as various business partners
- Understand the offering of individual cloud providers, establish an appropriate relationship with key personnel
- Run service delivery ensures that external SLA is maintained and monitor cloud & service provider SLAs
- Work on the ever-evolving architecture of IptiQ cloud infrastructure spanning multiple geographical regions by designing and implementing requirements and improvements to infrastructure running containerized applications, databases, and other supporting services
- Articulate and implement cloud oversight methodology in orchestration with Information Security, Compliance, Legal
- Risk Management to ensure that all cloud-related operational risks are within risk appetite, legal and regulatory constraints
- Orchestrate cross-domain activities in cloud risk management during the on-boarding of new distribution partners or major changes to the IT landscape
- Facilitating the empowerment, growth and development of the team members
- Aligning the team with a DevOps & Agile mindset
- Develop proof of concepts and propose design document for open infrastructure challenges to LG security and architecture team
- Improve utilization of current resources (People, Processes, Tools) and look for ways to automate processes and increase efficiency.
Skills on Resume:
- Cloud Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- SLA Management (Hard Skills)
- Infrastructure Design (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Domain Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Team Development (Soft Skills)
- Process Automation (Hard Skills)
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