Infrastructure Analyst Role

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Responsibilities

• Optimize infra spend through committed spend programs and supporting enterprise contract deals
• Ad Hoc Analysis of Infrastructure hosting spend
• Weekly Status meeting of cost savings initiatives tracked by infrafin board
• Dashboard and chart creation to improve observability into infrastructure costs
• Teaching and partnering with PM's and others on how to understand the cost and usage of their services as it relates to our vendors

Working with an infrastructure analyst

There is no magic when reducing or analyzing infrastructure spend, it just requires a good understanding of what our own usage and architecture looks like and how we get billed for it.

Therefore, if requesting help or a review from an infrastructure analyst you should try to provide as much information as possible. Some of the most important pieces of information to provide are:

• description or link to architecture of affected services
• data Source of usage info and what metrics best relate to the cost if known
• Affected product and/or sku of service provider

If one or more of these is not known, then you should partner with the infrastructure analyst so you can define these together.