Key Responsibilities Monitor and analyze AWS spending across accounts, services, and business units. Identify and implement cost optimization opportunities including Rightsizing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances (RI), Spot Instances, and storage optimization. Analyze AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, and CloudFront to identify cost drivers and savings opportunities.

Develop and maintain cost dashboards, reports, forecasts, and budget tracking using AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, AWS Billing Console, and AWS Cost & Usage Reports (CUR). Manage cost allocation, chargeback/showback models, and tagging governance. Build automated cost reporting and analytics solutions using Python, SQL, Athena, Glue, and Lambda.

Integrate cloud cost data with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, and QuickSight. Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Procurement, and Finance teams to drive cloud cost optimization initiatives.

Support Savings

Plans, Reserved Instance purchases, renewals, and Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) discussions.

Required Skills Solid knowledge of AWS pricing models, billing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances,



and EDP programs. Hands-on experience with

AWS Cost Explorer AWS Budgets AWS Cost & Usage Reports (CUR) AWS Billing Console Experience with FinOps tools such as CloudHealth, Cloudability (Apptio), Flexera, or Harness. Proficiency in Excel and BI tools including Power BI, Tableau, and QuickSight. Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, Athena, Glue, and Lambda. Strong analytical, reporting, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Additional AWS Technical Requirements IBM Cloudability v3 REST API validation.

Amazon

DynamoDB metadata structure mapping.

Amazon

Athena SQL optimization, S3 storage tier bucket configuration, and AWS Glue Data Catalog/Crawler scripting. Automated back-testing of multi-gigabyte billing files and script execution profiling, Parallel file reconciliation against manual billing and reporting sheets. CloudFormation (IaC) template deployment into production infrastructure landing zones. Compilation of technical architecture runbooks and operational hand-off metrics.

📌 Senior Consultant (Chennai)
🏢 Virtusa
📍 Chennai