Lead FinOps Analyst — Private Cloud (Storage & Data Economics)

Role summary

Own the economics of private cloud infrastructureespecially storage and data lifecycle costs. This role exists to surface hidden waste challenge assumptions and reclaim capacity safely. Youll translate opaque infrastructure usage into unit economics leadership can act on.

Forecasts and budgets are guardrails; the real objective is eliminating unnecessary spend and deferred capex.

What youll do

• Cost & capacity modeling
  • Build transparent models for private cloud storage and infrastructure costs.
  • Establish unit economics (e.g. cost per TB-month growth rate utilization).
• Data lifecycle governance
  • Stand up data aging and retention reporting by product and customer requirement.
  • Partner with product legal and compliance teams to translate requirements into enforceable policies.
• Execution of efficiency initiatives
  • Identify and drive purge tiering and lifecycle improvements to reclaim capacity.
  • Prevent re-accumulation through operational controls and ownership clarity.
• Planning & KPIs
  • Forecast capacity needs and cost implications based on real growth patterns.
  • Track KPIs tied to reclaimed capacity avoided purchases and utilization improvement.
• Stakeholder leadership
  • Challenge we need all of this data assumptions with facts and options.
  • Work across engineering and product teams to make change stick.

What success looks like

• Leadership understands where private cloud spend goes and why.
• Stale or non-required data is being actively purged.
• Storage purchases are deferred or avoided due to reclaimed capacity.

Required experience

• 710 years in private cloud infrastructure economics capacity planning or similar roles.
• Strong understanding of storage systems retention replication and lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to create governance where none existed.
• Comfort operating at the intersection of engineering compliance and finance.

Nice to have

• SaaS environments with regulatory/compliance constraints
• Experience with storage telemetry Prometheus CMDBs
• Familiarity with large-scale data lifecycle tooling

What this role is NOT

• Not a storage administrator role
• Not a compliance-only reporting function
• Not a passive capacity planning position
• Not a storage is cheap mindset

This role counts with a compensation budget of $175K - $185K bonus.