Additional Information
Job Number 25011151
Job Category Information Technology
Location Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20814VIEW ON MAP (
Schedule Full Time
Located Remotely? N
Position Type Management
JOB SUMMARY
The Sr. Systems Engineer – Cloud FinOps & Automation will be a technical expert responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cost-efficient cloud systems and applications that support core customer facing and enterprise facing products and platforms. In this role, the SSE will work closely with the Application, Infrastructure & Network teams to analyze the cloud infrastructure and identify opportunities for cost optimization. The role will help in identifying cost optimization opportunities by reviewing usage patterns, billing data, and cloud service utilization and will be responsible for developing and implementing cost optimization strategies to reduce the cost of cloud services while maintaining service quality and performance. In this role the SSE will collaborate with other technical teams, such as software engineering, data engineering, EA and DevOps, to ensure that cloud-based applications are designed with cost efficiency in mind. The role will implement an operating model of innovative cost savings and optimization solutions for Marriott across public cloud providers.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience
Required:
Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification
7+ years experience in information technology including:
5+ years’ experience in Cloud technologies including Iaas/Paas/Saas deployments on Public Cloud (AWS, AliCloud, Azure).
3+ years of experience in developing and implementing FinOps/Cloud Cost Optimization strategies for AWS services.
3+ years of experience in OS scripting and automation (e.g. Python, Bash)
Experience with FinOps/Cloud Cost Management tools and be comfortable with data analysis and reporting
Proven analytical skills and experience with cost optimization
Experience managing multi-million-dollar accounts
Deep understanding with cloud costs and the various alternatives
Proven ability to drive efficiencies and cost savings with savings and cost optimization mindset
Preferred:
2+ years of experience in administering and implementing automation in public Cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
2+ years of experience in container operations (such as Docker, OpenShift Enterprise, GKE, ECS). and orchestration (such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
Experience in designing, analyzing, and engineering large-scale distributed systems
Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment.
Demonstrated experience learning and applying new technologies to solve business needs
Excellent problem-solving skills by working independently and through leading outcomes for cross functional teams.
Experience across many of the following platforms:
Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, Windows, CentOS
Storage: Block Storage, Object Storage, Lifecycle Management and Data Replication, Backup & Recovery Best Practices.
Security: Compliance, Information Assurance, Data Protection using industry-best practices and tooling (Crowdstrike Falcon, Tenable.io, Splunk Phantom, HashiCorp Vault signers, SHA1 and SHA2 certificatemanagement).
Database: Relational (Oracle, DB2, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server), non-relational (Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB, DocumentDB).
Strong knowledge of emerging tools, software, applications, and systems for attaining best-in-class IT across the enterprise.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders and IT teams
Understanding of automated ITCM/ITRM best practices
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
Key responsibilities include:
Analyzing cloud usage - Monitoring cloud usage patterns, resource utilization, and spending to identify areas for improvement
Optimizing costs - Analyzing, optimizing, and implementing cost optimization actions across different cloud services
Automating tools - Implementing and managing automated tools to help identify cost trends and anomalies
Creating dashboards - Creating financial and usage dashboards
Collaborating with teams - Working with finance and business teams to align cloud spending with budgetary constraints
Provides technical leadership, oversight, governance and direction for services related to Marriott solution delivery
Provides technical expertise to project team for successful project and change implementations
Determines customer requirements and works with sourced resources to develop solutions
Provides input into lifecycle, improvement, and standardization strategies
Develops and generates periodic utilization reports to provide visibility to performance, capacity, availability and SLA management
Utilize capacity data to model future state planning with overall strategy and goals
Provides and presents status, analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior Leadership
Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
Leads analysis of current environment for deficiencies and provides solutions
Develop implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for projects and tasks
Responsible for project inception including requirements gathering and architecting, costs and chargeback modeling, infrastructure-as- code development and configuration management
Work with Enterprise Architecture to provide technology and cloud native service governance for technology steering committees, with cost and support directives
Delivering Technology
Create and enhance administrative, operational and technical policies and procedures, adopting best practice guidelines, standards and procedures for employees, contractors and vendor engagements
Interfaces with stakeholders to establish requirements and formulate priorities for infrastructure projects
Leads/assists in configuration management
Works in a concerted effort with application development and engineering teams to resolve complex issues
Provides oversight, collaboration, provisioning, management and maintenance of technology products and service alternatives that improve the production services environment
Responsible for the establishment and continuous development of monitoring and alerting for all production environments
Develops internal processes and training to ensure team members have the needed skills and tools to support the production environments and deliver on project commitments
Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for operational availability to promote a zero-defect environment
Leads/assists operational teams in system updates & upgrades
Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development
Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk
Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers
Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels
Coordinates with Plan and Build teams for deployment and production support activities
IT Governance
Follows all defined IT standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed
Execute infrastructure compliance monitors and auditing to ensure user and password security
Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk
Follows the defined project management standards and processes
Service Provider Management
Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams
Manages Service Providers with a focus on continuous service improvement and service evolution
Monitors, manages and leads Service Provider outcomes required to ensure operational availability and a zero-defect production environment
Consults with internal Service Management & external Service Providers on performance, business reporting, analytics metrics and business value dashboards
The salary range for this position is $108,300 to $188,700 annually. Marriott offers a bonus program, comprehensive health care benefits, 401(k) plan with up to 5% company match, employee stock purchase plan at 15% discount, accrued paid time off (including sick leave where applicable), life insurance, group disability insurance, travel discounts, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, health savings account (except for positions based out of or performed in Hawaii), flexible spending accounts, tuition assistance, pre-tax commuter benefits, other life and work wellness benefits, and may include other incentives such as stock awards and deferred compensation plans. Benefits and incentive compensation may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.
The compensation and benefits information is provided as of the date of this posting. Marriott reserves the right to modify compensation and benefits at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law.
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