FinOps for Engineers

FinOps for Engineers is a training course designed to provide engineers and those who architect, design, construct, and operate software solutions and infrastructure in the public cloud to understand how to work effectively with FinOps teams, finance, procurement, product, and management teams to manage cloud use and cost more efficiently and to derive more business value from cloud.

Your company might call FinOps by the name Cloud Financial Management or Cloud Economics, and may refer to your FinOps team as the Cloud Business Office, Cloud Center of Excellence, Cloud Management team or other names.

Who Should take this course: This course will not provide hands-on experiences with engineering optimization in any particular cloud or using any particular tool. This is a practitioner level course which will look at FinOps from the perspective of engineers.

Engineers and ops team members, such as Lead Software Engineer, Principal Systems Engineer, Service Delivery Manager, Engineering Manager, DevOps Engineer, DevOps Manager, or SecOps Team members focused on building and supporting services for the organization.

Objective: At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Describe what FinOps or Cloud Financial Management is, and why it is necessary
• Describe how FinOps relates to other software engineering methodologies/disciplines
• Describe the basic function and goals of a FinOps team
• Describe the motivations and drivers of finance, product, business and management teams with respect to FinOps and compare them to engineering and operations groups’ motivations
• Understand basic financial concepts and why they are important to the business
• Understand the fundamental capabilities and functions needed to manage public cloud cost and usage
• Describe the responsibilities of engineering and operations team members in the performance of those functions
• Enumerate how the engineer’s job has changed from on-premises traditional IT to cloud
• Explain strategies engineers can take to integrate cost awareness into architecture, design, build and operate processes
• Explain strategies for engineering and operations teams to better integrate with other functional groups to derive more value from public cloud use

Level: Foundational

What this course includes:

• Instructor-led videos
• 12 Months of Access to Online Course
• Complete speaker notes and takeaways from the instructor deck for each slide
• Instructions to access 7 day access to digital version of the Cloud FinOps book via O'Reilly