## About the Role

Xsolla is looking for a Senior FinOps Engineer to lead and develop cloud and infrastructure financial management across GCP, AWS, and on-premises environments. This role sits within the infrastructure team and is focused on improving cost transparency, optimizing cloud spend, and supporting predictable, efficient infrastructure operations.

The position works closely with engineering, product, and finance stakeholders to influence workload placement, scaling decisions, and infrastructure strategy. A key part of the role is turning usage data into clear financial and operational insights that help teams make better decisions.

This role combines hands-on analysis with cross-functional influence. It is well suited to someone who can balance tactical cost reductions with longer-term improvements in architecture, automation, and governance.

## Key Responsibilities

– Lead cloud cost optimization efforts across GCP, AWS, and on-prem infrastructure.
– Analyze usage across compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, virtual machines, and physical servers to identify cost-saving opportunities.
– Build forecasting models, dashboards, and automated reporting to improve visibility into spend trends and cost drivers.
– Define and maintain tagging/labeling standards, budgeting processes, and governance policies.
– Partner with Engineering, Finance, and Product on workload placement, architecture decisions, and scaling strategy.
– Promote FinOps best practices, including rightsizing, reservation planning, autoscaling optimization, multi-cloud efficiency, and storage cost management.
– Develop internal tooling, automation, and pipelines for cost monitoring, anomaly detection, and usage attribution.
– Support FinOps education and cost accountability across engineering teams through reviews and stakeholder communication.
– Track cloud pricing models, vendor offerings, and industry developments to improve FinOps maturity.

## Required Skills

– 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles with a strong focus on cost optimization.
– Hands-on experience with GCP, with AWS experience also required.
– Strong understanding of cloud pricing models, resource types, and cost management tooling.
– Deep knowledge of Kubernetes resource allocation, autoscaling, workload placement, and cost attribution.
– Strong analytical and data engineering skills, including the ability to build dashboards, SQL-based pipelines, and forecasting models.
– Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing engineering, product, and finance stakeholders.
– Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical topics into business-focused recommendations.
– Fluent English, written and verbal.

## Preferred Skills

– GCP and/or AWS cloud certifications at the Professional level.
– Understanding of FinOps Framework practices or FinOps Certified Practitioner certification.
– Experience in gaming, high-growth tech, SaaS, or multi-cloud platform environments.
– Familiarity with chargeback/showback models, internal cost allocation systems, or multi-tenant architecture.
– Experience with Terraform, Helm, or GitOps workflows in cost-related automation.
– Background in data analytics, cloud architecture, or financial modeling.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
– Amazon Web Services (AWS)
– On-premises infrastructure
– Datacenters

### FinOps Platforms
– GCP Billing exports
– AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)
– Kubecost
– CloudHealth

### Data & Analytics
– BigQuery
– SQL

### Containers & Kubernetes
– Kubernetes
– Kubernetes clusters

### Infrastructure as Code / Automation
– Terraform
– Helm
– GitOps

### Monitoring / Observability
– Observability tools
– Custom dashboards

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Lead cloud cost optimization across multi-cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
– Improve cost transparency and financial predictability.
– Identify savings opportunities across compute, storage, networking, and Kubernetes workloads.
– Build forecasting models and automated reporting for spend tracking.
– Implement tagging and labeling standards to support usage attribution and accountability.
– Establish budgeting processes and governance policies.
– Support rightsizing, reservation planning, autoscaling optimization, and cost-effective storage strategies.
– Develop monitoring and anomaly detection capabilities for cloud and infrastructure spend.
– Support cost attribution across Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, and physical servers.
– Help build a cost-aware culture through training, reviews, and stakeholder communication.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to shape and mature FinOps practices across a global infrastructure footprint spanning cloud and on-prem environments. It combines technical depth with strong cross-functional influence, making it suitable for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of engineering, finance, and product. The position also includes meaningful ownership of reporting, automation, and governance that can directly affect how infrastructure is run and scaled. If you want to contribute to cost efficiency and financial predictability in a fast-growing environment, this could be a strong fit.

## Useful Links

– Company Website: https://xsolla.com
– Careers: https://xsolla.com/careers