## About the Role

The Cloud FinOps Engineer is responsible for improving AWS cloud spend efficiency, financial visibility, and cost accountability across the organization. This role focuses on analyzing cloud usage and spending patterns, identifying opportunities for optimization, and helping ensure that cost decisions support application performance, scalability, and reliability.

The position works closely with Finance, IT leadership, Cloud Platform Engineering, DevOps/SRE, application teams, Procurement, AWS representatives, and vendors. A key part of the role is to strengthen cloud budgeting, forecasting, and reporting while supporting measurable savings initiatives.

## Key Responsibilities

– Analyze AWS spend, usage trends, cost drivers, budget variances, and anomalies.
– Identify and recommend cloud cost optimization opportunities.
– Monitor cloud consumption patterns and provide cost-efficiency recommendations.
– Drive rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, storage optimization, and non-production scheduling.
– Evaluate and recommend AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
– Define and implement AWS tagging standards.
– Ensure tagging compliance across cloud resources.
– Improve cost attribution and allocation across teams and projects.
– Implement showback and chargeback practices.
– Build cloud budgets, forecasts, and cost models.
– Perform scenario analysis to support cloud investment decisions.
– Work with Finance to improve budgeting accuracy and financial visibility.
– Track optimization initiatives and confirm realized savings against projections.
– Prepare regular reporting on cloud spend, trends, and optimization progress.
– Establish cost controls, budget alerts, and dashboards.
– Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to promote FinOps practices and cost-conscious cloud usage.

## Required Skills

– 9–12 years of experience.
– Hands-on experience in Cloud FinOps, AWS Cost Management, or Cloud Financial Analysis.
– Strong understanding of AWS billing and cost management.
– Experience with AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances.
– Understanding of cloud resource tagging, cost allocation, budgeting, and forecasting.
– Experience identifying and implementing AWS cost optimization strategies.
– Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting.
– Experience with reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
– Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

## Preferred Skills

– Knowledge of SQL for cloud cost data analysis.
– AWS certifications related to Cloud, Solutions Architecture, or Cloud Financial Management.
– Experience working with large-scale AWS environments.
– Understanding of cloud infrastructure, resource utilization, and architecture from a cost optimization perspective.
– Familiarity with FinOps frameworks and best practices.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– AWS

### FinOps Platforms
– AWS Cost Explorer
– Cost and Usage Reports (CUR)
– Savings Plans
– Reserved Instances

### Programming Languages
– SQL

### Reporting & BI
– Microsoft Excel
– Power BI
– Tableau

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Analyze cloud spend, usage trends, cost drivers, budget variances, and anomalies.
– Improve cloud cost visibility, attribution, and allocation.
– Develop cloud budgets, forecasts, and cost models.
– Perform scenario analysis to support investment decisions.
– Establish and maintain cost controls, budget alerts, and dashboards.
– Drive rightsizing, idle-resource cleanup, and storage optimization.
– Evaluate and manage Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
– Implement tagging standards, tagging compliance, showback, and chargeback.
– Track savings initiatives and validate realized savings.
– Promote FinOps best practices across teams.

## Benefits

– Flexible schedules and healthy work-life balance.
– Comprehensive benefits, including generous leave.
– Structured mentorship, masterclasses, workshops, and continuous skill development.
– Opportunities for blog contributions.
– Collaborative, flat-hierarchy working environment.
– Agile ways of working, including Scrum and XP.
– Strong emphasis on project ownership and client understanding.

## Useful Links

– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4486035046
– Application: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4486035046

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to shape AWS cloud cost management and FinOps practices in a cross-functional environment. It combines hands-on analysis with strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. The position also provides exposure to Finance, engineering, procurement, and cloud stakeholders, which can be valuable for professionals looking to broaden their impact. In addition, the role includes structured learning opportunities and a work environment that emphasizes collaboration and ownership.