- Remote, United States
- Remote
- Full-time · Senior
- $106K–$176K per year
- 6+ years
Provides technical and financial expertise in commercial cloud pricing, cost modeling, and cloud service provider purchasing options, with a primary emphasis on Microsoft Azure.
Compensation
The annual salary range for this position is $106,000.00-$176,000.00.
Responsibilities
- Develop comprehensive Microsoft Azure cost estimates, financial models, and total cost of ownership (TCO) analyses to support enterprise workload migration, modernization, and hosting decisions.
- Evaluate and compare the financial implications of hosting alternatives, including on-premises infrastructure, Azure VMware Solution (AVS), Azure-native Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), and other commercial cloud platforms.
- Analyze Azure pricing structures, Microsoft licensing models, consumption-based charges, reservations, savings plans, data transfer costs, and commercial purchasing agreements to determine projected cloud costs.
- Assess existing infrastructure configurations, resource utilization, application requirements, and workload characteristics to establish current-state cost baselines and forecast future cloud expenditures.
- Evaluate cloud service provider pricing, purchasing options, discounts, licensing considerations, and contractual factors, with a primary emphasis on Microsoft Azure.
Requirements
- University degree or FOUR (4) experience in leu of formal education