Engineering

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As an Operations Analyst, you will be responsible for identifying and executing solutions to optimize Splunk costs. Your primary focus will be to analyze infrastructure costs and determine solutions to maintain and optimize overall spend. You will partner with all Splunk departments to control their Cloud spend. Joining our team will allow you an opportunity to make an impact in driving the future processes of Splunk Cloud. Splunk offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative, exciting, and dynamic environment.

What You'll Be Doing:

Manage infrastructure costs

Manage infrastructure spend across the company to ensure efficient consumption and spend
Partner cross functionally to implement cost management policies and strategies
Create reporting and monitoring to ensure awareness of cost trending
Craft and execute companywide RI management to ensure optimal cost savings across all functional groups at Splunk
Collaborate with Finance, Engineering, Product, IT teams to drive cost savings projects and initiatives

Monitoring of infrastructure usage

Build monitoring and reporting to identify inconsistent consumption against expected models
Detect unexpected spikes in consumption across company to identify non-budgeted expenses

Forecasting

Create and implement a strategy to forecast spend for operational and financial modeling
Develop a process that will forecast overall spend for overall budgeting and financial planning
Set individual spend targets for Product teams and measure performance against expectations / budgets.

Who You Are & What Makes You Qualified:

5+ years experience as an Operations, Business or Systems analyst
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills – written and verbal -- to work cross functionally within the organization
Hands on experience with public cloud service providers, like AWS or GCP, with emphasis on infrastructure
Working knowledge of Splunk and/or SignalFX
Strong analytical and technical skills to work on complex business issues
BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience

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