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 established budget.

• Notify stakeholders about anomalies, new costs, and changes in consumption or quotas.

• Predict future cloud spending.

• Manage Commitments and/or reservations where applicable.

• Evaluate service usage and suggest or implement cost-saving measures.

• Research vendor technologies and tools to enhance applications.

• Generate financial and team reports.

• Establish alerts and track consumption and quota-based vendors.

• Ensure consistent tagging of services and applications for accurate reporting.

• Communicate with high-usage teams regarding waste, errors, or misinterpretations of services.

• Enforce minimum tagging and labeling standards.

• Modify quota-based vendor consumption to prevent exceeding contract limits.

• Develop and assess dashboards while analyzing usage trends.

• Investigate significant spending fluctuations and clarify service cost impacts to engineering teams.

• Assist with forecasting, maintain alerts and reports, and identify opportunities for waste reduction or to prevent exceeding quotas and contract limits.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Finance, and vendor owners on cost visibility, accountability, and cloud efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong comprehension of cloud architecture and infrastructure services.

• Experience in managing Kubernetes clusters.

• Development experience, including scripting or creating tools to automate reporting, alerting, or cloud operations workflows.

• Proficient in using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform for consistent and repeatable cloud resource management.

• Familiarity with cloud cost management or FinOps practices.

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

• Experience in building dashboards, reports, or automated alerts for both technical and financial stakeholders.

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

• Experience with tagging or labeling strategies, chargeback or showback models, and cloud governance standards.

• Understanding of vendor quota management, contracts, reservations, committed use discounts, or savings plans.

• Analytical mindset, proactive approach, and comfortable working across engineering and finance disciplines.

• Ability to investigate ambiguous cost changes, clearly communicate findings, and follow through until waste or reporting discrepancies are addressed.

• Capability to balance technical depth with practical business acumen.

🏝️ Benefits

• Base salary ranging from $110,000 to $120,000 annually.

• Variable compensation may be applicable.