Cloud Engineer III

Posting Description:  

Job Title: Cloud Services Engineer III 
 
As a Cloud and Hosting Services Analyst for Pearson, you will be helping to collect and analyze data to provide Cloud financial insights critical to our success as a business as it relates to an Infrastructure and Operations organization.  

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:  

• Produce insightful reports for multi-cloud platforms that can be shared with and actioned by Management.  

• Work effectively with cross-functional teams globally, assimilating requirements, driving results in the form of data insights and building strategic partnerships.  

• Support the FinOps team with setting goals/KPIs, retrieving data and modeling  

• Partner heavily with our Cloud Governance team to map data process flows, allowing FinOps to gather a single source of data source.  

• Analyze and forecast cloud hosting costs.  

• Provide cost optimization recommendations.  

• Create and maintain month-end and quarter-end reports.  

• Use Agile methodology for planning and execution.  

• Use tools and technology to make data driven decisions.  

• Collecting requirements for targeted automation projects; exploring potential solutions based on fit, up-skilling need, team skillsets, cost, and current and long-term strategies  

What Skills You Need  

• Self-starter who can also work with a team to deliver superior customer service  

• Knowledge of financial principles and business analytics.  

• Ability to work with multiple internal teams to provide the best experience for our customers  

• Understanding of applications development environment, database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints.  

• Ability to analyze and produce meaningful insights from large datasets  

• Strong analytical background with an aptitude for understanding technology  

• Experience with advanced Excel functions required  

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, etc.  

What Makes You Stand Out  

• Experience with Cloud billing and cost management tools and processes  

• Experience in cost management tactics such as enterprise-wide discount programs and commitment plans (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Sustained Use/Committed Use Discounts)  

• Experience with 3rd party cloud cost optimization tools (Cloudability)  

• Understanding of database and big data management capabilities and constraints (RDBMS, NoSQL, Datalake, etc)  

• Experience managing or developing automation with object-oriented programming languages (Java, Python) and understanding of appropriate use  

• Experience with the AWS Cloud platform and leveraging appropriate AWS services (e.g. S3, Lambda) as part of development of automated solutions.  

• Experience leveraging REST API for extracting and/or posting data  

• Understanding of building and deploying Agentic AI   

Qualifications  

Education (or equivalent work experience)  

• Undergraduate or master's degree in computer science, management information systems, data analytics  

• +5 years of experience in IT (Business Analytics, Project Management, IT Finance)