FinOps Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee cloud expenditures and ensure that costs stay within the designated budget

• Notify stakeholders about anomalies or new costs and project future cloud spending

• Manage committed use discounts (CUDs) and/or reservations when applicable

• Analyze service consumption and suggest or implement cost-saving measures

• Research vendor technologies and tools to enhance application performance

• Generate reports for Finance and engineering teams

• Establish alerts and monitor consumption for quota-based vendors

• Ensure that services and applications are consistently tagged for accurate reporting

• Collaborate with high-consumption teams to minimize wasteful spending caused by inefficiencies, errors, or misunderstandings

• Enforce minimum tagging and labeling standards

• Adjust consumption for quota-based vendors to prevent exceeding contract limits

• Create and review dashboards while analyzing usage trends

• Investigate any unusual changes in spending and clarify service cost impacts to engineering teams

• Assist in forecasting, maintain alerts and reports, and enhance cost allocation precision

• Work alongside Engineering, Finance, and vendor owners to boost cost visibility and accountability

⛳️ Requirements

• Comprehensive understanding of cloud architecture and infrastructure services

• Proven experience in managing Kubernetes clusters

• Background in development, including scripting or creating automation tools for reporting, alerting, or cloud operations workflows

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform

• Experience in cloud cost management or FinOps practices (preferred)

• Knowledge of AWS Cost Explorer, GCP Billing, BigQuery, Grafana, or other reporting and observability tools (preferred)

• Experience in creating dashboards, reports, or automated alerts for both technical and financial stakeholders (preferred)

• Understanding of tagging or labeling strategies, chargeback or showback models, and cloud governance standards (preferred)

• Familiarity with vendor quota management, contracts, reservations, committed use discounts, or savings plans (preferred)

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate cloud cost drivers to engineering teams, Finance, and leadership (preferred)

• Analytical mindset, proactive approach, and comfortable collaborating across engineering and finance

• Capability to investigate ambiguous cost changes, communicate findings effectively, and follow through on resolving waste or reporting discrepancies

🏝️ Benefits

• Annualized base salary of $110,000–$120,000

• Variable compensation may be applicable