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FinOps Engineer
12 months ago
Job Posting Title
FinOps EngineerWhy Big Fish Games?
Big Fish Games is the home of some of the biggest hit mobile casual games including EverMerge, Gummy Drop!, Cooking Craze, Fairway Solitaire, and many more.
- We are curious and constantly seek improvement in all we do because that’s what our business demands
- We operate with good intentions, confidence, and humility
- We welcome diversity of background, thought, and experience
- We listen actively and value each other
- We foster a fun environment that inspires creativity
Overview
The FinOps Engineer at Product Madness lives and breathes in Cloud looking for opportunities to cost-reduce and optimise the cloud environment. This role will be required to engage with the technical groups in order to understand the application and its usage. We are looking for a FinOps engineer to join our Infrastructure Group. The ideal candidate will take part in creating the next generation of cloud usage and standards, Observability as a service, CI/CD pipelines and our SRE/DevOps practices & culture inside Product Madness, using cutting-edge automation and modern technologies to monitor and track the changing cost.What You'll Do
Responsibilities
- Manage and optimize our cloud costs by analyzing usage patterns, identifying cost drivers, and recommending cost-saving measures
- Develop and implement financial processes and controls to ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial data
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and other teams to identify and implement cost optimization opportunities
- Create financial models and analyses to support business decisions
- Monitor and report on key financial metrics, including budget vs. actuals, forecast accuracy, and return on investment
- Collaborate with vendors and suppliers to negotiate and manage contracts and pricing
- Develop and maintain financial dashboards and reports for senior management and other stakeholders
- Plan and support the growth of Product Madness Infrastructure.
- Help maintain Productmadness services in the Cloud environment, Like GCP, Newrelic, and Grafana, Slack.
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
- Able ility to learn deep knowledge of our complex applications.
- Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to new cloud infrastructure our rapid iteration and constant growth.
- Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly recover and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale Linux environment.
- Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
- Monitor the containerise environment/services and manage them with leading orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes).
- Pay attention to infrastructure, cost and security aspects.
- Supporting other Engineers & Developers by providing necessary training, advice and mentorship.
- Support production environments - troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
- Support for Cloud Operation Engineers
- Interface and work closely with various R&D Groups (Architects, Principal Engineers Developers, and Product Managers).
What We're Looking For
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field - nice to have
- A few years of experience in finance or operations, preferably in a technology or cloud-based environment
- Strong analytical skills and ability to manipulate large data sets
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Experience with financial modelling and analysis
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Proven experience as a DevOps/SRE/Infra Engineer
- Expertise in Excel and in another programming language
- Experience with Cloud Architecture Design principles and Cloud Architect certification
- Experience creating infra-as code solutions using tools such as Terraform, Azure ARM templates, Cloudformation
- Hands-on implementation of Cloud base complex environments.
- Proven experience working in a production environment - a must
- Experience with monitoring and log analysis tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk etc. - Advantage
- Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems
Benefits
- Employer pension contribution with Aviva
- Private Health insurance with Vitality
- Full dental insurance
- Life Insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Study assistance programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Christmas Closure
- Employee assistance programme
- Bonus scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Personal development & career plans
- Perkbox Access
- Relocation support
Benefits And Beyond
Employees constantly rate Big Fish Games highly for its leadership, flexibility, well-being, diversity and inclusion through quarterly surveys.
FLEX-Forward work environment: Customize the when, where, and how you work while delivering goals
Health & More: Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, Teladoc services, employee assistance program (EAP)
Work-Life: Wellness Friday (half-days), paid time off, parental leave, flexible work policy, studio holiday closure (Enjoy the week between Christmas and New Year!)
Wellbeing: Wellness fairs, weekly virtual workout classes, 24/7 access to mental health and wellbeing support, free therapy and counseling sessions for you and your family
Wealth Care: 401k matching, flexible spending account (FSA), employee discounts, employee stock purchase program
Learn & Grow: LinkedIn Learning subscription, mentorship program, career development, individual development plans, educational assistance on job-related professional development
Community & Fun: Company social events, employee impact groups, company swag, volunteer opportunities
About Big Fish
Building upon our 20-year legacy as a leader in the biggest gaming categories in the world, we are innovating and developing new products within the casual space to add to our extensive portfolio. Big Fish is dedicated to delivering amazing experiences for players to connect, compete and discover play, anywhere and on any device. This means games for broad global audiences in genres that are easy to learn, and difficult to master. Be a part of the team from the start.
Big Fish is part of Pixel United, the free-to-play, mobile-first video games business of Aristocrat Leisure Ltd (ASX: ALL)!
Big Fish Games is an equal opportunity employer. We bring unique talents together to build something special that’s why we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.
Location
London, United KingdomJob family
Dev OpsContract Type
RegularTime Type
Full timeCompany
Product Madness Inc
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