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Senior Engineer, Cloud FinOps - Activision Blizzard

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Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer - Activision Blizzard

Location: UK/Ireland

Employment type: Permanent

Job description

Activision Blizzard - known as ABK internally - has embarked on a multi-year journey to run an ever-increasing number of workloads in public cloud - in particular Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As we progress on that journey, we now need an experienced Data & DevOps Engineer to join our newly formed ABK Cloud FinOps function and help support Cloud FinOps activities at both the Activision Blizzard group level and across our group of companies.

Your role at ABK

As a Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer at ABK, you will:

• Operate cloud cost monitoring & optimization (CCMO) tools/platforms, including developing any required integrations with other systems
• Define, implement and evolve the metrics, reports and dashboards required to track, analyze and optimize public cloud spend across the ABK group
• Working together with our business units (Activision, Blizzard and King), implement a common taxonomy for public cloud workloads at ABK
• Develop reusable Cloud FinOps technical solutions and services which can be implemented across the group
• Collaborate on and document Cloud FinOps best practices - eg, around the technical optimization of particular public cloud services to reduce cost, optimal strategies for the utilization of cost-optimization instruments, etc
• Work with colleagues in our nascent ABK Cloud Centre of Excellence to address issues of common concern - eg, a sudden spike in cloud spend possibly indicating a security incident
• Support Cloud FinOps tooling evaluations and POCs

Key skills

• Highly knowledgeable of and proficient on at least one public cloud - ideally GCP
• Experienced working with cloud APIs, REST, OAuth, IAM, etc
• Strong at a Linux command line; know your cat from your grep; have a favourite CLI text editor - and can explain why it’s your favourite!
• Strong scripting/programming skills
• Data-native; can read and write complex SQL in your sleep
• Strong, multi-year experience with at least one BI platform - eg, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or Data Studio
• Familiar with cloud security principles and best practices
• Be comfortable working across countries and timezones on a daily basis (ABK has people across North America and Europe)
• Be a self-starter who can deliver results with minimal day-to-day direction

Bonus points

• Proficient on multiple public clouds
• BigQuery expert
• Serverless savvy - ideally including Cloud Functions/Cloud Run/App Engine
• Familiar with building, testing, deploying and operating containerized applications - including on Kubernetes/GKE
• Proficient in multiple programming languages (particularly Go/Java/Node.js/Python)
• GCP certified (in particular, Professional Cloud Architect and/or Professional Data Engineer)
• Experienced with CCMO tools - eg, Apptio Cloudability
• Experienced working programmatically with Google Workspace - Google Sheets in particular
• Understanding of financial accounting concepts such as accrual-basis accounting, depreciation and amortization
• Have read the O’Reilly book “Cloud FinOps” from front to back!