FinOps Analyst

Company Summary

Product Madness is a Global Powerhouse where the greatest mobile games and experiences are crafted by world-class talent. A top-grossing leader in free to play mobile games, we have more than 800 team members working across seven global talent hubs including London (headquarters), USA, Canada, Spain, Poland and Ukraine. With remarkable hit games including Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, Lighting Link and Big Fish Casino, we boast more than 50 million active users and 400 million downloads and counting.

We are Mad about games and the way they bring people together, and that passion and culture is what brings us together as a studio, connects us with our partners we collaborate with, and is what links us to our sister studios across the world.

Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital game's division of Pixel United.

Job Posting Title

FinOps Analyst

Summary

The FinOps Analyst at Product Madness lives and breathes in Cloud looking for opportunities to cost-reduce and optimise the cloud environment. This role will be required to engage with the technical groups in order to understand the application and its usage. We are looking for a FinOps engineer to join our Infrastructure Group. The ideal candidate will take part in creating the next generation of cloud usage and standards, Observability as a service, CI/CD pipelines and our SRE/DevOps practices & culture inside Product Madness, using cutting-edge automation and modern technologies to monitor and track the changing cost.

What You'll Do

Job Description

Responsibilities

Manage and optimize our cloud costs by analyzing usage patterns, identifying cost drivers, and recommending cost-saving measures

Develop and implement financial processes and controls to ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial data

Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and other teams to identify and implement cost optimization opportunities

Create financial models and analyses to support business decisions

Monitor and report on key financial metrics, including budget vs. actuals, forecast accuracy, and return on investment

Collaborate with vendors and suppliers to negotiate and manage contracts and pricing

Develop and maintain financial dashboards and reports for senior management and other stakeholders

Plan and support the growth of Product Madness Infrastructure.

Help maintain Productmadness services in the Cloud environment, Like GCP, Newrelic, and Grafana, Slack.

Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.

Able ility to learn deep knowledge of our complex applications.

Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to new cloud infrastructure our rapid iteration and constant growth.

Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly recover and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale Linux environment.

Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.

Monitor the containerise environment/services and manage them with leading orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes).

Pay attention to infrastructure, cost and security aspects.

Supporting other Engineers & Developers by providing necessary training, advice and mentorship.

Support production environments - troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Support for Cloud Operation Engineers

Interface and work closely with various R&D Groups (Architects, Principal Engineers Developers, and Product Managers).

What We're Looking For

Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field - nice to have

A few years of experience in finance or operations, preferably in a technology or cloud-based environment

Strong analytical skills and ability to manipulate large data sets

Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously

Experience with financial modelling and analysis

Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Proven experience as a DevOps/SRE/Infra Engineer

Expertise in Excel and in another programming language

Experience with Cloud Architecture Design principles and Cloud Architect certification

Experience creating infra-as code solutions using tools such as Terraform, Azure ARM templates, Cloudformation

Hands-on implementation of Cloud base complex environments.

Proven experience working in a production environment - a must

Experience with monitoring and log analysis tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk etc. - Advantage

Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems

Benefits

Employer pension contribution with Aviva

Private Health insurance with Vitality

Full dental insurance

Life Insurance

Long-term disability insurance

Study assistance programme

Cycle to work scheme

Christmas Closure

Employee assistance programme

Bonus scheme

Season ticket loan

Personal development & career plans

Perkbox Access

Relocation support

Why Product Madness ?

Product Madness is so much more than just a Pool table and a foosball game.

We believe in an honest and transparent approach with our teammates. Company wide weekly Town Halls, All Hands and strategy meetings are just a few ways in which we encourage an open and honest path to achieving complete transparency.

Despite a pandemic, there isn't a day where we don't feel connected to one another.

With frequent events, workshops, giveaways, slack coffee and donut sessions we have definitely brought on our office culture to this new virtual world of zoom calls.

We also try to cater for all our staff's needs – be that a freshly brewed cappuccino made by our professional barista in our free coffee shop or by providing a bountiful supply of tasty snacks to keep us refueled and buzzing.

We love to organise plenty of social get-togethers and action-packed activity days, be it slipping inside an inflatable bumper ball for a mad session of football zorbing or throwing caution to the wind and traversing giddy treetop rope courses at Go Ape. On top of these team-building activities, our lunch and learn workshops, not to mention the lavish Christmas and summer parties, foster that ‘work hard, play hard' mantra. Our offices are based in the heart of the metropolises of London and Lviv, surrounded by an abundance of diversity and inspiration to keep those ideas flowing.

Our Values

People First

We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re- choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.

MAD for More

Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world's best games company.

Champion Together We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.

Globally Inclusive

We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.

Customer Focused

We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.

Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!