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Information Technology Support Services · 1001 to 5000 Employees · Chicago, US
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. Founded in 2007, AHEAD grew up in the data center and retains its deep infrastructure expertise at the core of its business. But as the market has changed, the company has always invested ahead of the curve. With expansion into strategic consulting and managed services, along with innovation in practices like cloud, security, and automation, AHEAD has become a key partner for countless enterprises in their path to digital business transformation. Over the years, AHEAD has additionally completed several significant mergers, acquiring Data Blue and Sovereign Systems in 2019, followed by RoundTower Technologies and Kovarus in 2020, Vertical Trail in 2021, vCORE Technology Partners in 2022, and MBX Systems in 2023.
Hiring: Engineering
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Overview
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and enhance cost allocation and chargeback models, budgets, and cost alerts across cloud accounts.
- Implement and enforce tagging and resource-hierarchy standards, ensuring greater than 90% coverage for cost-critical tags (app, environment, owner, cost center).
- Develop and publish cost-visibility dashboards and reports using Power BI, native cloud tooling, or third-party FinOps platforms.
- Support unified multi-cloud cost reporting to ensure transparency for engineering and finance teams.
- Execute rightsizing and scheduling of cloud resources across AWS and Azure (EC2, RDS, S3, VMs, App Services, Storage, Networking).
- Manage and optimize Reservations (RIs), Savings Plans, and Hybrid Benefits (AWS BYOL / Azure Hybrid Benefit).
- Assist in implementing policy-as-code using AWS Config, Azure Policy, Terraform, or Bicep, under senior guidance.
- Participate in anomaly detection, spend forecasting, and automated remediation workflows.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipeline management, infrastructure automation, and GitOps practices using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
- Provide actionable input during monthly cost and performance reviews with product and engineering stakeholders.
- Partner with Finance and Procurement teams on budgeting, forecasting, and billing validation.
- Collaborate with SRE and Platform teams to balance cost efficiency, reliability, and security.
- Maintain operational hygiene through scripting, tagging audits, and compliance automation.
- AWS: Cost Explorer, Budgets, Config, Organizations, Management Groups.
- Azure: Cost Management + Billing, Advisor, Policy.
- GCP: Billing Reports.
- FinOps Platforms: Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth, Kubecost, Harness CCM.
- AWS CloudWatch.
- Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
- Power BI.
- Amazon QuickSight.
- Terraform, Bicep, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible.
- Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab.
- AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, PowerShell, Python.
- AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, EKS (basics), CloudTrail, CloudWatch.
- Azure: VMs, App Services, Storage, Azure SQL, AKS, Databricks (basics).
- GCP: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, GKE.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role.
- Minimum 3+ years designing, securing, and deploying large-scale cloud applications and solutions.
- Experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Operations, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including 1–2 years of FinOps or cloud cost optimization (AWS preferred).
- Strong experience with AWS and Azure cost management, including tagging, cost allocation, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
- Knowledge of Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, rightsizing, utilization optimization, and cloud cost governance.
- Experience with Power BI, Kusto Query Language (KQL), Amazon CloudWatch, Python, and PowerShell.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and infrastructure automation.
- Architect-level development skills in Python, PowerShell, Java, or similar programming languages.
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
- Strong networking knowledge, including VPCs/VNets, Subnets, Route Tables, Security Groups/NSGs, Load Balancers, VPNs, Network Connectivity, and Routing.
- Strong Terraform development and modular infrastructure design experience.
- Experience with AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, EKS, and other AWS native services.
- Experience with multi-account AWS environments including AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs), Landing Zones, Account Vending, Baseline Configurations, and Guardrails.
- Experience with DevOps platforms including Bitbucket (preferred), GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and GitLab CI/CD.
- Experience with security and governance tools including Cloud Custodian, Trivy, SAST/DAST tools, Pre-commit Hooks, and other DevSecOps tools.
- Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and remediation workflows.
- Experience with secrets management solutions including AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, or equivalent.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools including Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, or similar platforms.
- Experience with container security and image scanning for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.
- Experience working in regulated environments including HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, or equivalent compliance frameworks.
- Understanding of cloud data governance, data classification, and data protection.
- Experience implementing cloud compliance, audit controls, and governance standards.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills.
- Self-motivated, well-organized, able to manage multiple priorities, and willing to travel as required.
- Execute tagging, cost optimization, and reporting activities under senior guidance.
- Maintain accurate dashboards and deliver actionable insights to stakeholders.
- Assist in implementing policy-as-code, automation scripts, and cost-saving recommendations.
- Increase cost awareness among engineering teams and help embed FinOps principles.
Nice to have
- Apptio Cloudability, VMware Aria/CloudHealth, Kubecost, custom FinOps dashboards.
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