FinOps Engineer

Role Overview

The FinOps Engineer is a critical role for an effective and efficient use of our cloud resources, strongly impacting the financial success of our products and services. The role will bridge the gap between Engineering, Finance, and Product teams, ensuring that every dollar spent on AWS and Azure is optimized for business value.

What You Will Do

The FinOps Engineer will build and maintain unified dashboards, provide real-time spend transparency, and manage AI token consumption to control costs and maximize value from AI usage. The role will also define and enforce a standardized tagging/labelling taxonomy, manage commitment-based savings, and identify and automate the cleanup of orphaned resources.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The FinOps Engineer will work with multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams to tackle significant challenges and make a meaningful impact. The role requires a data-driven FinOps professional who can translate complex technical architectures into financial business impacts for executive leadership.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with cloud billing constructs (AWS CUR, Azure Billing APIs) and data analysis tools like SQL, Python, and Power BI/Tableau.
• Deep understanding of pricing models and discount mechanisms for both AWS (EC2, S3, RDS) and Azure (VMs, SQL DB, Storage).
• Understanding of or the ability to learn fast on AI Token Management.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical architectures into financial business impacts for executive leadership.
• Strong affinity with financial modelling and business cases.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) or FinOps Certified Engineer.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)