Also called: Cloud Cost Analyst, FinOps Practitioner
Tracks how much a company spends on cloud computing and finds ways to cut the bill.
You notice the company is paying $40,000 a month for test servers that nobody shut off, and you work with engineers to turn them off automatically. Half finance, half tech, you build reports showing each team what its cloud use costs.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in finance, IT or business; FinOps Certified Practitioner credential helps.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science.
Growing much faster than average. New field growing quickly as AI drives cloud bills up.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. Cloud cost tools now find and apply savings automatically, cutting manual analysis of the cloud bill.
Classes: Accounting, AP Statistics, Computer applications.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-2051.
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