Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Lead in-depth analysis of cloud expenditures, usage patterns, allocation accuracy, anomalies, and optimization prospects across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Identify, quantify, prioritize, and pursue optimization opportunities, including rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, storage and data transfer optimization, licensing alignment, and scheduling strategies.

• Monitor optimization opportunities and validate financial outcomes while avoiding double-counting unrealized savings.

• Oversee cost visibility and allocation for containerized and Kubernetes workloads.

• Analyze and optimize expenses related to AI and GPU usage.

• Expand cost analysis to encompass SaaS, software licensing, and marketplace expenditures.

• Conduct reviews of cloud cost and operational excellence best practices.

• Lead cost allocation, tagging governance, mapping logic, reporting accuracy, and management of non-taggable resources.

• Define and maintain unit economics and cost-per-unit metrics.

• Own or lead the creation of dashboards, reports, budgets, forecasts, showback and chargeback views, executive summaries, and recurring service review content.

• Supervise billing data validation and reconciliation, including efforts towards FOCUS-standardized formats.

• Implement ongoing tagging governance with policy enforcement and automated remediation.

• Maintain client-facing FinOps tools and portals.

• Manage commitment portfolios, reserved capacity, savings plan modeling, purchase recommendations, renewals, and realization of savings.

• Support discussions related to enterprise agreements, private pricing, and committed spending.

• Present financially sound recommendations to technical, business, finance, procurement, and executive stakeholders.

• Communicate with external customers to assist client leadership in establishing strategic direction.

• Translate customer business needs into technical and financial requirements while leading complex deliverables.

• Collaborate with CloudOps, DevOps, platform, application, finance, procurement, and client stakeholders.

• Maintain tickets, documentation, meeting follow-ups, and communications.

• Facilitate regular client advisory calls.

• Develop queries, data transformations, and automation using SQL and Python or PowerShell.

• Integrate third-party tools, billing sources, and reporting platforms.

• Estimate, prioritize, and execute tasks independently within established timelines.

• Provide technical leadership and coordinate technical delivery resources without direct personnel management responsibilities.

• Execute approved remediation activities through client workflows and change-control procedures.

• Monitor delivery hours and manage approved overages or rescoping.

• Mentor Cloud FinOps Engineers and contribute to standards, playbooks, reusable assets, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Represent the practice through thought leadership, workshops, conferences, and webinars.

• Support pre-sales, solutioning, scoping, positioning, and service maturation.

• Deliver FinOps and tooling education to client teams.

• Provide occasional after-hours or weekend support for incidents, deadlines, change windows, and urgent cost-related issues.

• Maintain current cloud and professional certifications while meeting individual goals.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, finance, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience.

• Over 5 years of combined experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, infrastructure, or cloud cost management, with at least 3 years focused on cloud financial management, cost optimization, or FinOps.

• Minimum of 3 years in a customer-facing, stakeholder-facing, consulting, or service delivery role.

• Practical experience in designing, deploying, or operating large-scale, multi-account, multi-subscription, or enterprise cloud environments.

• Subject matter expertise in at least one major public cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Proficient in SQL and at least one scripting language, such as Python or PowerShell.

• Experience with cloud cost management, billing analysis, or reporting platforms.

• Proven experience in integrating third-party tools, billing data sources, and reporting platforms.

• Strong analytical, spreadsheet, and problem-solving capabilities.

• Must have legal authorization to work in the United States.

• Ability to successfully complete AHEAD and client-mandated background screening.

• Availability during assigned team standard business hours, with flexibility for U.S. time zones.

• Willingness to participate in on-call or escalation rotations when applicable.

• Relevant professional and cloud certifications in line with the role, practice, and individual development goals.

• Preferred: experience in managed services, consulting, or outsourced service delivery.

• Preferred: experience in multi-cloud FinOps or cost optimization.

• Preferred: certifications such as FinOps Certified Practitioner, FinOps Certified Professional, AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications.

• Preferred: familiarity with Harness CCM, Apptio Cloudability, CloudZero, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, or PowerShell.

• Preferred: experience in forecasting, budgeting, allocation, showback, chargeback, commitment planning, and realization of savings.

• Preferred: knowledge of FinOps Framework, FOCUS, Kubernetes/container cost allocation, AI/GPU cost management, mentoring, ticketing platforms, and pre-sales experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

• 401(k).

• Paid company holidays.

• Paid time off.

• Paid parental and caregiver leave.

• Cross-department training and development.

• Sponsored certifications and credentials for ongoing learning.

• Diversity and belonging initiatives.

• Remote work options available within the United States.

• Up to 10 percent domestic travel.