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Marriott International · 1 day ago

Sr. Systems Engineer – Cloud FinOps & Automation

Bethesda, MD

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$100K/yr - $172K/yr

7+ years exp

Marriott International is the world’s largest hotel company, and they are seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer – Cloud FinOps & Automation. This role is responsible for driving measurable savings and financial accountability across public cloud platforms by engineering automation for tagging compliance, budget and anomaly guardrails, and workload optimization.

LeisureTourismTravel

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Analyzing cloud usage - Monitoring cloud usage patterns, resource utilization, and spending to identify areas for improvement

Optimizing costs - Analyzing, optimizing, and implementing cost optimization actions across different cloud services

Automating tools - Implementing and managing automated tools to help identify cost trends and anomalies

Creating dashboards - Creating financial and usage dashboards

Collaborating with teams - Working with finance and business teams to align cloud spending with budgetary constraints

Provides technical leadership, oversight, governance and direction for services related to Marriott solution delivery

Provides technical expertise to project team for successful project and change implementations

Determines customer requirements and works with sourced resources to develop solutions

Leads analysis of current environment for deficiencies and provides solutions

Provides input into lifecycle, improvement, and standardization strategies

Develops and generates periodic utilization reports to provide visibility to performance, capacity, availability and SLA management

Utilize capacity data to model future state planning with overall strategy and goals

Provides and presents status, analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior Leadership

Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate

Develop implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for projects and tasks

Responsible for project inception including requirements gathering and architecting, costs and chargeback modeling, infrastructure-as- code development and configuration management

Work with Enterprise Architecture to provide technology and cloud native service governance for technology steering committees, with cost and support directives

Create and enhance administrative, operational and technical policies and procedures, adopting best practice guidelines, standards and procedures for employees, contractors and vendor engagements

Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk

Interfaces with stakeholders to establish requirements and formulate priorities for infrastructure projects

Leads/assists in configuration management

Works in a concerted effort with application development and engineering teams to resolve complex issues

Provides oversight, collaboration, provisioning, management and maintenance of technology products and service alternatives that improve the production services environment

Responsible for the establishment and continuous development of monitoring and alerting for all production environments

Develops internal processes and training to ensure team members have the needed skills and tools to support the production environments and deliver on project commitments

Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for operational availability to promote a zero-defect environment

Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers

Leads/assists operational teams in system updates & upgrades

Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development

Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels

Coordinates with Plan and Build teams for deployment and production support activities

Follows all defined IT standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed

Execute infrastructure compliance monitors and auditing to ensure user and password security

Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk

Follows the defined project management standards and processes

Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams

Manages Service Providers with a focus on continuous service improvement and service evolution

Monitors, manages and leads Service Provider outcomes required to ensure operational availability and a zero-defect production environment

Consults with internal Service Management & external Service Providers on performance, business reporting, analytics metrics and business value dashboards

Qualification

Cloud technologiesFinOps strategiesOS scriptingCost optimizationTerraformAnsibleContainer operationsData analysisProblem-solvingCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification

7+ years experience in information technology including:

5+ years' experience in Cloud technologies including Iaas/Paas/Saas deployments on Public Cloud (AWS, AliCloud, Azure)

3+ years of experience in developing and implementing FinOps/Cloud Cost Optimization strategies for AWS services

3+ years of experience in OS scripting and automation (e.g. Python, Bash)

Experience with FinOps/Cloud Cost Management tools and be comfortable with data analysis and reporting

Proven analytical skills and experience with cost optimization

Experience managing multi-million-dollar accounts

Deep understanding with cloud costs and the various alternatives

Proven ability to drive efficiencies and cost savings with savings and cost optimization mindset

Preferred

2+ years of experience in administering and implementing automation in public Cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts

2+ years of experience in container operations (such as Docker, OpenShift Enterprise, GKE, ECS) and orchestration (such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)

Experience in designing, analyzing, and engineering large-scale distributed systems

Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment

Demonstrated experience learning and applying new technologies to solve business needs

Excellent problem-solving skills by working independently and through leading outcomes for cross functional teams

Experience across many of the following platforms:

Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, Windows, CentOS

Storage: Block Storage, Object Storage, Lifecycle Management and Data Replication, Backup & Recovery Best Practices

Security: Compliance, Information Assurance, Data Protection using industry-best practices and tooling (Crowdstrike Falcon, Tenable.io, Splunk Phantom, HashiCorp Vault signers, SHA1 and SHA2 certificate management)

Database: Relational (Oracle, DB2, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server), non-relational (Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB, DocumentDB)

Strong knowledge of emerging tools, software, applications, and systems for attaining best-in-class IT across the enterprise

Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders and IT teams

Understanding of automated ITCM/ITRM best practices

Benefits

401(k) plan

Stock purchase plan

Discounts at Marriott properties

Commuter benefits

Employee assistance plan

Childcare discounts

Coverage for medical

Dental

Vision

Health care flexible spending account

Dependent care flexible spending account

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Accident insurance

Adoption expense reimbursements

Paid parental leave

Educational assistance

Paid sick leave

0.077 PTO balance for every hour worked

Minimum of 9 holidays annually

Company

Marriott International

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Marriott International, Inc.

Founded in 1927

Bethesda, Maryland, USA

10001+ employees

http://travel-brilliantly.marriott.com

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