Cloud FinOps Engineer

VTG

$100K — $140K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years in cloud engineering, specializing in cost optimization.
  • Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Understanding of cloud financial management and tagging strategies.
  • Experience with resource rightsizing and auto-scaling.
  • Proficient in analyzing large datasets for cost savings identification.
  • Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and govern FinOps policies and best practices across multi-cloud environments.
  • Analyze resource usage to eliminate inefficiencies and reduce costs.
  • Track cloud spending and create reports to identify billing anomalies.
  • Develop dashboards to report on key cost performance indicators to stakeholders.
  • Enforce cloud budgets and forecasts for cost management.
  • Evaluate and purchase reserved instances or savings plans to optimize costs.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with multi-cloud architectures and advanced financial management practices.
  • Collaborative environment with agile scrum teams.
  • Role empowers cultural change towards cost accountability.
  • Access to state-of-the-art development tools and technologies.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically proficient Senior FinOps Engineer to drive significant cloud cost savings and financial accountability across the customer's organization. This role requires a unique blend of deep development/engineering skills, solution architecture expertise, and FinOps best practices to design, implement, and govern cost-efficient cloud solutions. The successful candidate will embed a culture of cost optimization within engineering teams and architect forward-looking, financially responsible cloud strategies. As a member of a multi-cloud configuration team, the selected individual will be required to be part of an agile scrum team and be knowledgeable in numerous development tools and technologies. We are glad to consider engineers that have the attitude to solve complex problems without static solutions.

What will you do?

  • Establish, evangelize, and govern FinOps policies and best practices across multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Proactively analyze resource usage to eliminate inefficiencies, such as rightsizing instances, terminating unused resources, and tuning architectures for lower costs.
  • Tracking cloud spends, generating reports, and setting up alerts to identify and remediate billing anomalies.
  • Creating dashboards to report on cost KPIs to stakeholders.
  • Developing and enforcing cloud budgets and forecasts.
  • Purchasing reserved instances or savings plans and evaluating new tools or technology to reduce costs.

Do you have what it takes?

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years in cloud engineering, with a focus on cost optimization.
  • Deep expertise in AWS (Cost Explorer, Budgets), Azure, or GCP.
  • Understanding of cloud financial management, cost allocation, and tagging strategies.
  • Experience with rightsizing, spot instances, reserved instances, and auto-scaling.
  • Ability to analyze large datasets to identify savings opportunities.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical/financial concepts for both executive and engineering audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and drive cultural change regarding cost accountability.
  • Strong analytical skills with a focus on problem-solving and proactive opportunity identification.

Bonus points if you have:
  • Experience supporting the Open-Source Network.
  • FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) certification.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional.

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