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 video recordings of the complete course (approximately 3 hours of video),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
Invite to an office hours session with a certified FinOps trainer to ask questions in real time before the exam
Student Handbook PDF with learning outcomes
A coupon for a sweet, free FinOps t-shirt :)

The FinOps training allows individuals in a large variety of cloud, finance and technology roles to validate their FinOps knowledge and enhance their professional credibility.

For more course details, such as who should get FinOps Certified, or the recommended prerequisite level of knowledge regarding cloud computing, services from cloud vendors, as well as billing or pricing models, please visit our website: https://www.finops.org/certification/

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