Senior Engineer – AWS (FinOps)

Top Expectations for a Senior Engineer

● Execute tagging, cost optimization, and reporting activities under senior guidance. ● Maintain accurate dashboards and deliver actionable insights to stakeholders. ● Assist in implementing policy-as-code, automation scripts, and cost-saving recommendations. ● Increase cost awareness among engineering teams and help embed FinOps principles. ● Create and maintain standard operating procedures and playbooks for recurring tasks. ● Demonstrate proven skills across multiple billable technologies, validated through certification, training, or demonstrated ability. ● Serve as a recognized subject-matter expert within your professional discipline. ● Contribute to more complex and critical environments, often exceeding the expectations of your current job title.

Lead vs. Contribute

● Participate in and help lead a team of technical delivery resources across skill sets to achieve customer business and technology goals. ● Participate in and lead written deliverable creation across areas of expertise. ● Provide measurable input into AHEAD's products, processes, standards, and plans. ● Provide time estimates for work based on available information. ● Coordinate and contribute to cross-practice deliverables using current templates. ● Act as a self-starter in identifying work during non-scheduled hours; prioritize and complete tasks independently, on time or ahead of schedule. ● Lead development and testing activities; contribute to refining methodology and best practices. ● Initiate and participate in authoring PCR requests when additional work is requested.

Architect Skills

● Demonstrate depth and expertise across at least one core technology. ● Architect and lead the deployment of moderately complex cloud solutions. ● Understand the performance, scaling, and functional characteristics of software technologies. ● Understand open-source and cloud use cases and recommend standard design patterns and best practices.

Certifications and Goals

● Maintain several relevant, higher-level certifications. ● Consistently meet goal objectives and exceed select goals.

Communication (Verbal and Written)

● Communicate with external customers, including senior management, on matters requiring explanation, interpretation, or advisement. ● Consistently meet or exceed customer expectations for communication and commitments. ● Work effectively with outside vendors on internal or customer-related issues. ● Participate in pre-sales activities, including scoping, positioning, and technology adoption/maturation. ● Identify new client opportunities within the POD and communicate them to leadership, including the Team Lead. ● Help customer leadership set strategic direction beyond tactics and technology. ● Write and lead complex deliverables within the practice; translate customer requirements into technical requirements.

Leadership and Influence

● Works to influence direct team members, broader internal team, and external customers, to agree and accept new concepts, best practices, and approaches. ● Advises and trains more junior staff via mentorship while helping to drive the entire AHEAD platform. ● A reliable resource for marketing on thought leadership pieces for their practice for AHEAD and our customers. ● Has started speaking at industry conferences and/or webinars. ● Contributes to more complex workshops and understands how their area of expertise fits into our stitching message. ● Accepts responsibility for own actions and sometimes those of others as part of a team. ● Works well with immediate, extend and external teams, a true team player. ● Consistently meets expectations in terms of customer facing, writing, presentation and problem-solving skills and requires little to no supervision in this area. ● Consistently exhibits a positive attitude towards AHEAD and its customers. ● Willing to go the extra mile when asked to do so (i.e., time outside of normal working hours to support a customer initiative, production roll-out, could also be > 40 hours for short intervals). ● Consistently pursues self-development and drives the AHEAD business model for self and sometimes others on the team. ● Highly respected by peers and sales team.

Culture

● Support initiatives beyond your immediate area of responsibility. ● Encourage cross-team interaction. ● Motivate others to think creatively. ● Achieve success through others.