Cloud FinOps Senior Engineer

Purpose of the role


* Identify and recommend cost optimization opportunities in the cloud.


* Drive change to cloud costs from the center.


* Learn and support existing FinOps practices for AWS and Azure.


* Assist in development of FinOps practices.


* Assist in ongoing development of a self-service environment for cloud cost transparency.

Duration: Full Time

Key Responsibilities:


* Research into AWS cloud service offerings on an ongoing basis to present new angles for cost optimization of each cloud service


* Lead initiatives to identify and implement cost-saving opportunities through rightsizing, reserved instances, and workload scheduling


* Lead architecture reviews with a strong focus on cloud best practices, providing technical leadership across enterprise initiatives including platform rationalization, infrastructure modernization, and data architecture optimization.


* Serve as a strategic advisor to engineering, product, and finance teams on cloud cost implications, trade-offs and best practices


* Maintain deep awareness of cloud pricing models, FinOps best practices, and emerging technologies such as Generative AI, Agentic AI and Model Context Protocols (MCPs)


* Leverage the AWS CLI to retrieve metadata to identify additional information necessary for cost transparency.


* Support the Densify product and interpret analysis to suggest actionable items.


* Develop processes to identify cost transparency in AWS and Azure


* Create KPIs as a measure of cost optimization in the cloud.


* Mentor engineers and technical leads on design best practices and emerging technologies.


* Support the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) platform in Athena and PowerBI.


* Learn the financial side of FinOps to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to cloud cost optimization.


* Learn and influence on the ongoing development of our mature, homegrown FinOps solution


* Propose and implement new CUR architecture to address challenges in managing the large dataset.


* Present cloud financials and cloud cost optimization opportunities.


* Estimate cloud costs for migrations to the cloud.

Preferred skills and qualifications


* 7+ years of experience in support of technology infrastructure or system architect.


* 5+ years of experience in understanding CPU, memory, and performance metrics.


* 2+ years of experience writing SQL.


* Demonstrated experience integrating and thoughtfully applying AI to enhance workflows, decision-making, and problem-solving, including the use of AI-enabled tools, automation, insight generation, and evaluation of AI's broader impact on the function or industry.


* Strong communication and presentation skills.


* Ability to build relationships to drive change.


* Proactive and self-driven mindset.


* AWS cloud experience preferred.


* FinOps and/or AWS Certifications preferred


* Python experience prefe...