About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at
www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
As a Cloud FinOps Software Engineer you are responsible for collecting and analyzing financial information related to the organization’s cloud expenses. You would build and maintain the software that powers business processes such as cost reporting, anomaly detection, and helping in allocating cost components to business units and product lines. You would be able to review the cost data to improve the accuracy of budgets and forecasts for different products and help in creating financial models for engineering project and Go-To-Market decisions. You will work as part of a team to implement and maintain FinOps & Big Data practices and methodologies, with a focus on analyzing cloud usage and spending data to identify areas for cost optimization.
The ideal candidate would have a strong understanding of FinOps, analytics data platform, pipeline, and the AWS ecosystem.
What You Will Do
- Collaborate with Finance and Engineering understand project scopes around key FinOps initiatives.
- Design, build and maintain FinOps data platform and pipeline that process data from various sources.
- Manage key Financial and Product level data accurately for reporting & business decision making.
- Build anomaly detection systems and downstream processes that turn the detections to business value.
- Adopting best analytics data practices to continuously enhancing data quality throughout the system.
- Monitor ongoing cloud expenses and identify cost-saving opportunities, such as unused or underutilized resources in AWS for all cloud hosted products.
- Analyze cloud data to identify cost optimization and usage opportunities and create specific action items.
- Create reports, dashboards and alerts to track spending and usage trends and the potential impact of cost optimizations.
- Work with Product Engineering teams to understand Cloud business processes and cost drivers.
What You Will Bring
- 3+ years Python & SQL in a large-scale multi-region cloud production environment
- 3+ years in designing, building, deploying and managing analytics data platform and pipeline
- 2+ years in dbt & Analytics Databases (OLAP) like Redshift, ClickHouse
- Experience with Big Data Systems like Presto, Spark, OLAP
- Experience with Data Science libraries/tools like spark-family, Airflow, Dagster, pandas, Polars
- Experience working with best data observability practices preferred
- Experience with Cloud infrastructure – AWS or other cloud providers, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, Terraform with specifics of cost management and optimization for different cloud resources
- Proficient with CSV, JSON, Parquet file formats, and their usage in Big Data environments
- Ability to query, analyze and summarize data efficiently and accurately.
- Understanding of ML tools likeSageMaker/PyTorch is desired
- Experience with FinOps preferred
In Canada, the base salary for this role ranges from $101,000 to $169,000. In addition to base salary, we offer additional compensation including bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits package. A candidate’s specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job-related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
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Ready to Join Us?
At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. Please refer to the location details in our job postings for further information.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
Data Protection
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