## About the Role

We are seeking a Senior FinOps Engineer to join a growing FinOps organization and help improve cloud cost management across the technology environment. The role focuses on optimizing cloud spend, strengthening financial accountability, and embedding FinOps best practices into day-to-day operations.

In this position, you will work across finance, engineering, and business stakeholders to promote cost awareness and align cloud usage with business value. You will contribute to forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and cost optimization efforts while helping teams adopt more cost-conscious ways of designing and running infrastructure.

A key part of the role is building scalable FinOps processes, improving visibility into cloud spending, and supporting better decision-making through data-driven analysis. You will also help educate and mentor teams on FinOps principles and cloud cost management.

## Key Responsibilities

– Lead the implementation and ongoing improvement of FinOps practices across the organization
– Develop cost allocation strategies, tagging policies, and showback/chargeback processes
– Build and maintain cloud cost forecasts and budgets
– Analyze cloud resource usage to identify optimization opportunities
– Create dashboards and reports that improve visibility into cloud spend
– Work with engineering teams to support cost-aware architecture and cost controls
– Partner with finance teams to incorporate cloud costs into financial planning
– Automate FinOps processes where possible
– Stay current on cloud pricing models and optimization approaches
– Educate and mentor teams on FinOps principles and cloud cost management

## Required Skills

– 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering
– At least 3 years of experience focused on cloud financial management or FinOps
– Strong knowledge of major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, and GCP
– Understanding of cloud pricing models
– Experience with FinOps tools
– Strong data analysis and visualization skills
– Proficiency with infrastructure as code
– Experience with cost allocation methodologies and chargeback models
– Solid understanding of financial concepts as they apply to technology investments
– Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical and financial topics to varied audiences

## Preferred Skills

– FinOps Foundation certification, specifically FinOps Certified Practitioner
– Certification in at least one cloud platform
– Experience with AI/ML for FinOps, including cost optimization, anomaly detection, and forecasting

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– AWS
– Azure
– GCP

### FinOps Platforms
– FinOps tools

### Programming Languages
– Python
– Bash
– PowerShell

### Infrastructure as Code
– Terraform
– CloudFormation

### Containers & Kubernetes
– Docker
– Kubernetes
– ECS

### CI/CD
– GitHub Actions
– Jenkins
– GitLab CI

### Monitoring / Reporting / BI
– PowerBI

### Databases
– SQL databases
– NoSQL databases

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Implement and improve FinOps practices across the organization
– Design and maintain cost allocation, tagging, showback, and chargeback processes
– Build cloud cost forecasting models and budgets
– Identify opportunities to reduce cloud spend through usage analysis
– Develop dashboards and reports for cloud spend visibility
– Support cost controls in collaboration with engineering teams
– Work with finance to incorporate cloud costs into financial planning
– Automate FinOps workflows where possible
– Help teams understand and apply FinOps principles

## Benefits

– Career growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving field
– Collaborative and innovative work environment
– Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies
– Flexible work arrangements
– Professional development support and certification reimbursement

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to work at the intersection of cloud engineering, finance, and business planning. It is well suited to someone who enjoys using data and technical expertise to improve cost visibility and drive more accountable cloud spending. The position also includes collaboration with both engineering and finance teams, along with opportunities to build scalable FinOps processes. Professional development support and certification reimbursement are also part of the package.