FinOps - FinOps for Engineers

Overview

This accelerated FinOps for Engineers course, is designed for engineers to understand how to work effectively with FinOps teams to manage cloud use and cost more efficiently and to derive more business value from cloud.

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.

Upon completion of this course, you 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

At the end of this course, you’ll achieve your FinOps for Engineers certification.

Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology you’ll certify at twice the speed of traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

40% faster

Distraction-free environment

Audience

This course is ideal for anyone who wants to 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.