FinOps Engineer

• Own cloud cost reporting across GCP and AWS — weekly, monthly, and ad hoc dashboards for engineering and business stakeholders.
• Drive cost optimisation: rightsizing, committed use discounts (CUDs / RIs), idle resource cleanup, storage lifecycle policies, and network egress reduction.
• Design and enforce a cloud tagging strategy — define taxonomy, automate compliance checks, and resolve untagged resources.
• Build showback and chargeback models so teams understand and are accountable for their spend.
• Lead monthly FinOps review meetings — present spend trends, highlight anomalies, explain variances, and recommend actions.
• Set up and maintain budget alerts, anomaly detection, and forecasting models.
• Partner with product and engineering to embed cost awareness early in architecture and feature design.

CloudOps & SRE — Secondary

• Support day-to-day cloud operations on GCP and AWS: incident response, monitoring hygiene, and infrastructure health reviews.
• Contribute to Datadog observability — dashboards, monitors, and alert tuning, particularly for cost-correlated signals.
• Participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews with a cost lens on RCA.
• Work with platform and SRE teams on Kubernetes cluster efficiency — node utilisation, autoscaling, and namespace-level cost attribution.

TECH STACK

Required

• GCP — primary cloud platform (Billing API, BigQuery cost export, CUD analyser, GCP Recommender)
• AWS — secondary cloud platform (Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, Trusted Advisor)
• Kubernetes — node pools, resource requests/limits, namespace cost attribution
• Datadog — monitoring and cost dashboards
• Terraform — infrastructure as code for cost-related configurations

Good to have

• CloudZero — unit economics and cost allocation
• Istio — service mesh and traffic cost observability
• Python or SQL — cost data analysis and automation
• Looker or Grafana — cost visualisation

Must have

• 7+ years of cloud infrastructure or engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a dedicated FinOps, cloud cost management, or platform economics role.
• Hands-on GCP cost tooling experience — Billing export, Recommender, CUD analysis.
• Proven track record of delivering measurable cloud cost savings. Be ready to talk numbers.
• Strong communication skills — you can translate a complex cost anomaly into a clear story for a non-technical stakeholder.
• Experience building and maintaining tagging strategies and cost allocation frameworks.
• Comfortable in a Kubernetes environment — you understand what node pools and resource limits mean in cost terms.

Nice to have

• FinOps Foundation certification (FOCP) or equivalent.
• Experience with CloudZero, Apptio Cloudability, or similar FinOps platforms.
• SRE or CloudOps background — you understand what drives cloud spend from the inside.
• AWS cost management experience: Savings Plans, Cost Anomaly Detection.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.