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Systems Engineering
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Cloud Service Provider Costing Specialist
The Cloud Service Provider Costing Specialist provides technical and financial expertise in commercial cloud pricing, cost modeling, and cloud service provider purchasing options, with a primary emphasis on Microsoft Azure. This role supports enterprise cloud migration, modernization, and hosting decisions by developing defensible cost estimates, evaluating financial alternatives, and identifying opportunities to optimize cloud expenditures.
What You Will Do
Develop comprehensive Microsoft Azure cost estimates, financial models, and total cost of ownership (TCO) analyses to support enterprise workload migration, modernization, and hosting decisions.
Evaluate and compare the financial implications of hosting alternatives, including on-premises infrastructure, Azure VMware Solution (AVS), Azure-native Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), and other commercial cloud platforms.
Analyze Azure pricing structures, Microsoft licensing models, consumption-based charges, reservations, savings plans, data transfer costs, and commercial purchasing agreements to determine projected cloud costs.
Assess existing infrastructure configurations, resource utilization, application requirements, and workload characteristics to establish current-state cost baselines and forecast future cloud expenditures.
Evaluate cloud service provider pricing, purchasing options, discounts, licensing considerations, and contractual factors, with a primary emphasis on Microsoft Azure.
Collaborate with cloud engineers, solution architects, and other technical stakeholders to assess the financial implications of architecture, infrastructure sizing, migration strategies, and modernization decisions.
Develop cloud cost optimization recommendations addressing resource sizing, consumption patterns, licensing, reservations, savings plans, and cloud service selection.
Use Azure Pricing Calculator, Azure Cost Management, Azure Migrate, Microsoft Excel, and related tools to develop estimates, analyze expenditures, validate assumptions, and maintain detailed cloud cost models.
Develop financial comparisons, forecasts, and business cases that clearly document assumptions, cost drivers, financial tradeoffs, risks, and projected outcomes.
Present cloud cost analyses and recommendations to technical, business, and executive stakeholders in a clear and defensible manner.
What You Will Need
SIX (6+) years of experience in cloud financial management, IT infrastructure costing, cloud pricing analysis, or related technical financial disciplines. University degree or FOUR (4) years experience in leu of formal education
Demonstrated hands-on experience independently developing detailed Microsoft Azure pricing estimates, cloud financial models, and TCO analyses for enterprise infrastructure and application workloads.
Strong practical knowledge of Azure consumption pricing, Microsoft licensing, reservations, savings plans, data transfer charges, and commercial cloud purchasing models.
Demonstrated ability to translate infrastructure configurations, resource utilization, workload requirements, and architectural designs into detailed cloud consumption forecasts and cost estimates.
Experience evaluating and comparing the financial implications of cloud migration, modernization, and hosting alternatives, including Azure IaaS, PaaS, and VMware-based environments.
Experience working with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) purchasing arrangements, negotiated pricing, and cloud licensing considerations.
Working knowledge of Azure infrastructure architecture, including compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services, sufficient to identify and evaluate technical cloud cost drivers.
Experience using Azure Pricing Calculator, Azure Cost Management, Azure Migrate, or comparable…