## About the Role

This position focuses on improving cloud cost transparency, governance, and measurable savings across Azure, AWS, and GCP. It brings together FinOps, cloud architecture, Kubernetes optimization, and Terraform-based controls to help engineering and finance teams make better decisions from platform usage data.

You will work with platform teams, delivery squads, and finance stakeholders to identify cost drivers, apply optimization measures, and build cloud solutions that balance performance, resilience, and cost. The role is based in Kraków with a hybrid model and 8–6 office visits per month.

## Key Responsibilities

– Drive FinOps optimization across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
– Identify cloud cost drivers and implement optimization measures such as rightsizing, scheduling, tier optimization, and commitment planning.
– Reduce Kubernetes spend for containerized workloads through cluster sizing, autoscaling, node pool strategies, and environment controls.
– Embed FinOps practices into Terraform-based infrastructure to support tagging, cost allocation, policy compliance, and guardrails.
– Apply governance and compliance patterns to reduce resource sprawl and improve allocation accuracy.
– Automate optimization and operational controls using PowerShell, Bash, pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.
– Turn platform consumption data into forecasting and financial insights for engineering and finance stakeholders.
– Design scalable cloud architectures that balance performance, resilience, and cost.
– Collaborate with platform, delivery, and finance teams to align cost targets with technical and operational constraints.

## Required Skills

– 3–5 years of experience as a Senior Cloud Engineer or Cloud DevOps Engineer, including Azure solution architecture.
– Strong knowledge of Azure core services, identity, networking, and governance.
– Familiarity with AWS and GCP cost drivers and pricing mechanics.
– Practical understanding of FinOps, including cost allocation, showback/chargeback, optimization levers, and cost governance.
– Hands-on experience designing and operating Kubernetes platforms in production.
– Strong Terraform skills, including modular design, reusable components, and CI/CD integration.
– Experience building automated cost optimization reporting pipelines using APIs or scripted automation.
– Strong DevSecOps background and experience improving pipelines and platform delivery outcomes.
– Solid Windows and Linux fundamentals, including platform operations and troubleshooting.
– Ability to analyze cost and usage data in SQL and convert it into actionable insights.
– Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
– Multi-cloud experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP, plus familiarity with cloud-native data services such as BigQuery.

## Preferred Skills

– FinOps Certified Practitioner.
– Cloudability or Apptio certification.
– Google Cloud, Azure, or AWS certifications.
– Experience in financial services.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– Azure
– AWS
– GCP
– Google Cloud

### FinOps Platforms
– Cloudability
– Apptio

### Infrastructure as Code
– Terraform
– Policy-as-code

### Containers & Kubernetes
– Kubernetes
– AKS
– Cluster sizing
– Autoscaling
– Node pool strategies

### Scripting & Automation
– PowerShell
– Bash
– APIs
– CI/CD pipelines

### Data & Analytics
– SQL
– BigQuery

### Operating Systems
– Windows
– Linux

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Improve cloud spend visibility, governance, and measurable savings.
– Support cost allocation, showback/chargeback, and cost governance.
– Apply optimization levers including rightsizing, scheduling, tier optimization, and commitment planning.
– Optimize Kubernetes workloads for lower spend.
– Build tagging, metadata standards, and policy-as-code guardrails into infrastructure delivery.
– Translate platform consumption into forecasting and financial insights for technical and financial stakeholders.

## Benefits

– Full-time employment contract.
– Hybrid work in Kraków.
– Stable, long-term cooperation.
– Clear career path.
– Conferences, trainings, workshops, and integration meetings.
– Certification and training opportunities.
– Option to relocate and work from other ALTEN Polska branches.
– Opportunity to continue onto a subsequent project after completion of the current one.
– Dedicated support from a Competences Manager.
– Medicover medical care and dental care.
– Medicover Benefits platform.
– Medicover Sport card.
– Referral program.
– Layette for a newborn employee’s child.
– Group life insurance.
– Pension scheme.
– For B2B or UZ cooperation, possible access includes:
– Self-funded Medicover Sport, Medicover Platform, and Allianz insurance.
– Support from Competences Center and Practices & Expertise.
– Additional business initiatives such as PoCs, client engagements, and technical assessments under a separately agreed scope.
– Professional certifications with technology partners such as Google and ISTQB.
– Industry events, the Knowledge Sharing Program, the referral program, and future project-based cooperation.

## Useful Links

– Company Website: http://www.altenpolska.pl

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role combines cloud engineering and FinOps in a multi-cloud environment, with practical work across Kubernetes, Terraform, and cost optimization. It also involves collaboration with platform, delivery, and finance stakeholders, so the impact is visible in both technical operations and spending decisions. The package includes a hybrid Kraków setup, training and certification support, and the possibility of continuing onto future projects.