# FinOps Engineer — India

## About the Role

This India-based FinOps Engineer role is focused on cloud financial management across multi-cloud environments. The purpose of the position is to improve cloud cost visibility, optimization, and financial accountability at scale.

You will work closely with engineering, platform, product, and business teams to identify savings opportunities and support more cost-aware technical decisions. The role also contributes to CloudOps and SRE initiatives, helping connect infrastructure performance with cloud spend outcomes.

This position is suited to a cloud professional who can combine analytics, governance, and hands-on technical execution. The goal is to deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, reporting, and infrastructure cost control.

## Key Responsibilities

– Own cloud cost reporting across GCP and AWS, including weekly, monthly, and ad hoc dashboards for technical and business stakeholders.
– Lead cost optimization work such as rightsizing, commitment optimization, idle resource cleanup, storage lifecycle management, and network cost reduction.
– Define, implement, and enforce tagging standards, including governance, automation, and resolution of classification gaps.
– Build and maintain showback and chargeback models to improve cost visibility and accountability.
– Run FinOps review meetings, covering spend trends, anomalies, variances, and optimization recommendations.
– Configure budgets, forecasting models, anomaly detection, and proactive cost alerts.
– Partner with engineering and product teams to embed cost considerations into architecture and application design.
– Support CloudOps and SRE activities, including monitoring, incident response, observability, and Kubernetes efficiency.
– Improve Datadog dashboards and alerts, participate in post-incident reviews, and strengthen Kubernetes resource utilization and cost attribution.

## Required Skills

– 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or a related technical function.
– At least 3 years of experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, or platform economics.
– Hands-on experience with GCP cost management tools, including Billing Export, BigQuery cost reporting, GCP Recommender, and Committed Use Discount analysis.
– Working knowledge of AWS cost management services, including Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, Trusted Advisor, and Cost Anomaly Detection.
– Experience with Kubernetes, including node utilization, autoscaling, namespace-level cost allocation, and resource optimization.
– Proficiency with Datadog for monitoring, observability, dashboards, and alert management.
– Experience using Terraform for infrastructure and cost-related configuration.
– Demonstrated ability to deliver measurable cloud cost savings through data-driven initiatives.
– Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
– Experience designing cloud tagging policies and cost allocation frameworks across multi-cloud environments.

## Preferred Skills

– Python or SQL for automation and cost analysis.
– Visualization tools such as Looker or Grafana.
– CloudZero or Apptio Cloudability.
– Istio.
– FinOps Foundation (FOCP) certification.
– Exposure to CloudOps or SRE practices.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

– **Cloud Providers:** Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
– **FinOps / Cost Management:** GCP Billing Export, BigQuery cost reporting, GCP Recommender, Committed Use Discount analysis, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Savings Plans, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Cost Anomaly Detection, CloudZero, Apptio Cloudability
– **Programming Languages:** Python, SQL
– **Infrastructure as Code:** Terraform
– **Containers & Kubernetes:** Kubernetes, Istio
– **Monitoring / Observability:** Datadog
– **Data & Analytics:** BigQuery
– **Reporting / BI / Visualization:** Looker, Grafana
– **Certifications:** FinOps Foundation (FOCP)

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Deliver cloud spend reporting and dashboards across GCP and AWS.
– Improve cost efficiency through rightsizing, commitment management, idle resource reduction, storage lifecycle management, and network cost controls.
– Develop tagging, showback, chargeback, and cost allocation frameworks.
– Set up budgets, forecasting, anomaly detection, and proactive alerting.
– Lead FinOps review sessions and explain spend trends, anomalies, and variances.
– Work with technical teams to incorporate cost governance into architecture and application design.

## Benefits

– Competitive salary and comprehensive compensation package.
– Opportunity to work with modern multi-cloud technologies across GCP and AWS.
– Exposure to FinOps, CloudOps, and SRE practices in a collaborative engineering environment.
– Career development opportunities with access to cloud technologies and best practices.
– Opportunity to make a measurable impact on cloud efficiency, financial governance, and infrastructure performance.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role combines FinOps, CloudOps, and SRE work across GCP and AWS, with direct ownership of reporting, optimization, tagging, forecasting, and governance. It offers close collaboration with engineering and product teams, along with the opportunity to influence architecture decisions using cost and operational data. If you want a role with clear technical scope and measurable impact on cloud spend and infrastructure performance, this is a strong fit.