## About the Role

The Associate Cloud FinOps Engineer is responsible for the day-to-day management of cloud financial operations across a multi-cloud environment spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP. The role supports monthly billing, cost allocation, and reporting processes while helping improve cost visibility and reduce cloud waste through automation.

This position acts as a connection point between Engineering and Finance. It focuses on identifying spend anomalies, maintaining accurate chargeback and showback models, and building Python-based automation to improve cloud cost governance and resource efficiency.

## Key Responsibilities

– Run and reconcile the monthly cloud billing and cost allocation process across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
– Build and maintain dashboards and reports for engineering and finance stakeholders using Power BI, QuickSight, or native cloud tools.
– Support chargeback and showback processes to allocate cloud costs to the correct business units.
– Develop and maintain Python and Shell scripts, using Boto3, APIs, and AWS Lambda where applicable, to automate cost governance activities.
– Create automated alerts for daily cost anomalies and budget threshold breaches.
– Detect and help clean up idle, orphaned, and underutilized resources across all three cloud platforms.
– Identify right-sizing and modernization opportunities based on cloud utilization analysis.
– Support the evaluation, tracking, and coverage monitoring of cloud commitment plans.
– Maintain and enforce tagging standards to improve cost attribution across environments.

## Required Skills

– At least 2 years of hands-on experience in Cloud FinOps or Cloud Cost Optimization.
– Practical knowledge of cloud billing mechanics and native cost tools across:
– AWS: Cost Explorer, CUR, Budgets
– Azure: Cost Management + Billing
– GCP: Billing Reports, BigQuery export
– Strong Python scripting skills, including experience with Pandas, Boto3, and Requests.
– Experience with script execution and automation.
– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.

## Preferred Skills

– FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP).
– Associate-level cloud certifications such as:
– AWS Cloud Practitioner
– Azure Fundamentals
– GCP Digital Leader

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– AWS
– Azure
– GCP

### Cloud Cost Management Tools
– AWS Cost Explorer
– AWS CUR
– AWS Budgets
– Azure Cost Management + Billing
– GCP Billing Reports
– GCP BigQuery export

### Programming Languages
– Python
– Shell

### Libraries / APIs / Automation
– Pandas
– Boto3
– Requests
– APIs
– AWS Lambda

### Reporting / BI
– Power BI
– QuickSight

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Monthly cloud billing and cost allocation
– Cost reporting and dashboarding
– Chargeback and showback implementation
– Cost anomaly detection and alerting
– Budget threshold monitoring
– Idle, orphaned, and underutilized resource cleanup
– Right-sizing analysis
– Modernization opportunity identification
– Commitment plan tracking and coverage monitoring
– Tagging governance and cost attribution

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to work across AWS, Azure, and GCP in a position that combines FinOps, reporting, and automation. It is well suited to someone who wants to partner closely with both Engineering and Finance while improving cloud cost visibility and governance. The scope includes billing operations, anomaly detection, commitment tracking, and resource optimization, all within a hands-on technical role.