Assistant Vice President - FinOps (IT Infrastructure)

You will lead our infrastructure financial operations across a diverse infrastructure landscape and responsible for unifying cost management strategies for our public cloud (AWS, Oracle etc), private cloud, and traditional on-premise data centers. You will bridge the gap between DevOps, Engineering, Finance, and Leadership, moving beyond simple cost reporting to drive culture change, financial accountability, and unit economics optimization. You will effectively translate "CapEx" (on-prem) and "OpEx" (public cloud) models into a single, cohesive view of IT spend. 

• Lead strategic assessments of existing IT infrastructure, identifying optimization opportunities across data centers, networks, servers, storage, and cloud platforms. 
• Drive the formulation of multi-year infrastructure roadmaps aligned with enterprise goals, industry best practices, and emerging technologies. Provide expert guidance on cloud transformation, hybrid infrastructure design, and scalability planning. 
• Partner with IT, cybersecurity, finance, and business leaders to ensure infrastructure initiatives are well-integrated, cost-effective, and aligned with business priorities. 
• Evaluate and recommend vendor platforms and solutions, overseeing due diligence, RFPs, and contract negotiations as needed. Monitor technology trends and regulatory developments to assess their impact on infrastructure strategy. 
• Build robust business cases, including ROI, TCO, and risk analyses, to support strategic investments. 
• Lead the annual budgeting and monthly forecasting process for all infrastructure, accounting for cloud usage growth, hardware amortization cycles, and software licensing renewals. 
• Develop and maintain a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model that normalizes costs across public cloud (variable OpEx) and on-premise infrastructure (fixed CapEx, depreciation, power, cooling, licensing). 
• Define and enforce policies for workload placement—determining financially optimal locations for applications (e.g., "burst to cloud" vs. "steady-state on-prem"). 
• Manage commitment-based discounts (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, EDPs) across multiple cloud providers. 
• Identify and remediate waste (idle resources, orphaned volumes, legacy snapshots) and drive rightsizing initiatives with engineering teams. 
• Monitor Kubernetes/ container, Iaas and trad infra costs to ensure accurate allocation of shared cluster resources to specific products or teams. 
• Calculate the "fully loaded" cost of on-premise compute and storage (e.g., cost per vCPU, cost per TB) to allow for apples-to-apples comparison with public cloud rates. 
• Capacity Planning and Collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize hardware utilization rates, delaying unnecessary hardware purchases through better efficiency. 
• Analyze maintenance vs. refresh costs to determine the optimal time to retire or migrate aging on-premise hardware. 
• Enforce a global tagging and allocation strategy that works across both cloud resources and on-premise assets (e.g., mapping server and compute to business units). 
• Deliver actionable dashboards that show engineering teams their spend in near real-time, regardless of where the workload runs. 
• Act as a cultural evangelist, training engineering teams on cost-aware architecture and helping Finance understand technical drivers of spend.

• Possesses 5 or more years’ experience in IT Finance, Cloud Operations, or FinOps, with specific exposure to hybrid environments 
• Deep knowledge of pricing models and billing mechanisms for at least one major provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP). 
• Understanding of data center economics, including hardware depreciation schedules, virtualization (VMware) licensing, and facilities costs. 
• Strong grasp of accounting principles (CapEx vs. OpEx, amortization, EBITDA impact). 
• Proficiency with FinOps/ ITFM tools (e.g., Apptio, Cloudability, CloudHealth, Kubecost) and native cloud cost consoles. 
• Advanced Excel/ Google Sheets skills; experience with BI tools (Tableau, PowerBI) and SQL is highly preferred. 
• Basic understanding of Python or scripting to automate data extraction from APIs is a plus. 
• Ability to negotiate agreements with software and hardware vendors. 
• Ability to explain complex technical costs to Finance and complex financial constraints to Engineers. 
• Certifications such as FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP), AWS Cloud Practitioner & ITIL 4 Foundation (specifically Service Financial Management).