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About Marriott:Marriott Tech Accelerator is part of Marriott International, a global leader in hospitality. Marriott International, Inc. is a leading American multinational company that operates a vast array of lodging brands, including hotels and residential properties. It consists of over 30 well-known brands and nearly 8,900 properties situated in 141 countries and territories.Role Title: Engineering ManagerPosition Summary:The Sr. Systems Engineer FinOps will be a technical expert responsible for driving measurable savings and financial accountability across public cloud platforms by engineering automation for tagging compliance, budget & anomaly guardrails, and workload optimization. The role will partner with Cloud Platform, Application, DevOPs , Security, and Finance teams to deliver cost transparency (chargeback/show back), enforce governance via policy as code, and implement hands off automation that continuously reduces spend without sacrificing reliability or security. Grounded in established FinOps scope and tooling including centralized dashboards and policy enforcements, this role will collaborate with teams 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 all public cloud providers. Job Responsibilities:Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification 6+ 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 reportingProven analytical skills and experience with cost optimizationExperience managing multi-million-dollar accountsDeep understanding with cloud costs and the various alternativesProven ability to drive efficiencies and cost savings with savings and cost optimization mindsetPreferred: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 systemsDemonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment.Demonstrated experience learning and applying new technologies to solve business needsExcellent 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, CentOSStorage: 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 (Crowd strike Falcon, Tenable.io, Splunk Phantom, Hashi Corp Vault signers, SHA1 and SHA2 certificate management).Database: Relational (Oracle, DB2, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server), non-relational (Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB, Document DB).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 teamsUnderstanding of automated ITCM/ITRM best practiceCORE WORK ACTIVITIES:Key responsibilities include: Analyzing cloud usage - Monitoring cloud usage patterns, resource utilization, and spending to identify areas for improvementOptimizing costs - Analyzing, optimizing, and implementing cost optimization actions across different cloud servicesAutomating tools - Implementing and managing automated tools to help identify cost trends and anomaliesCreating dashboards - Creating financial and usage dashboardsCollaborating with teams - Working with finance and business teams to align cloud spending with budgetary constraintsProvides technical leadership, oversight, governance and direction for services related to Marriott solution deliveryProvides technical expertise to project team for successful project and change implementationsDetermines customer requirements and works with sourced resources to develop solutions Provides input into lifecycle, improvement, and standardization strategiesDevelops and generates periodic utilization reports to provide visibility to performance, capacity, availability and SLA managementUtilize capacity data to model future state planning with overall strategy and goalsProvides and presents status, analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior LeadershipTrains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate Leads analysis of current environment for deficiencies and provides solutionsDevelop implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for projects and tasksResponsible 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 projectsLeads/assists in configuration managementWorks in a concerted effort with application development and engineering teams to resolve complex issuesProvides 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 environmentsDevelops internal processes and training to ensure team members have the needed skills and tools to support the production environments and deliver on project commitmentsPerforms complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for operational availability to promote a zero-defect environmentLeads/assists operational teams in system updates & upgradesProvides consultation for routine and complex systems developmentMaintains a proper balance between business and operational risk Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services ProvidersEnsures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levelsCoordinates with Plan and Build teams for deployment and production support activitiesIT 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 teamsManages Service Providers with a focus on continuous service improvement and service evolutionMonitors, manages and leads Service Provider outcomes required to ensure operational availability and a zero-defect production environmentConsults with internal Service Management & external Service Providers on performance, business reporting, analytics metrics and business value dashboardsWork location: Hyderabad, India.Work mode: Hybrid