Cloud Engineer(m/w/x)

Requirements

• Experience with public cloud provider (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Familiarity with native cloud cost management tools (AWS, GCP or Azure) (plus)
• Experience with FinOps methodology/best practices and data-driven decision-making (plus)
• Experience writing scripts or small applications for automation, data processing or analysis
• Programming or scripting experience (e.g., Python)
• Interest in public cloud platforms (experience with AWS, GCP and/or Azure is a plus)
• Basic understanding of APIs, data formats and automation workflows
• Analytical mindset and interest in usage, billing or operational data
• Collaboration in multidisciplinary, international team and clear communication
• Spoken and written English, commitment to learn French
• Nationality of CERN Member or Associate Member State
• Professional background in Computer Science or related field with Master's degree (2-6 years experience) or PhD (max 3 years experience)
• No prior CERN fellow or graduate contract

Tasks

• Develop and maintain scripts and automation for cloud API interaction
• Support cost control, budgets, and alerts
• Collect, process, and analyze cloud usage data
• Collect, process, and analyze cloud billing data
• Provide clear, actionable cost insights
• Build and operate dashboards and reports
• Monitor cloud costs
• Forecast cloud costs
• Detect cloud cost anomalies
• Define and enforce cloud resource tagging practices
• Define and enforce cost attribution practices
• Support day-to-day FinOps operations
• Monitor cloud spend
• Investigate cloud anomalies
• Assist project teams
• Contribute to documentation on cloud cost management
• Contribute to runbooks on cloud cost management
• Share knowledge on cloud cost management best practices

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