About the Role We are recruiting for a prominent, global enterprise looking for a data-driven
Cloud Engineer (FinOps) to optimize their cloud economic strategy. Working at the intersection of Engineering, Finance, and Product, you will establish financial accountability, drive cost efficiency, and ensure the organization gets maximum business value from its cloud investments.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly collaborative, forward-thinking global team that actively supports professional development and careerprogression.
Key Responsibilities - Cloud Visibility & Reporting: Design and maintain unified cost dashboards across a multi-cloud environment to provide stakeholders with clear, real-time spend transparency.
- Modern Resource Governance: Establish and manage cost-allocation practices for emerging technologies, including API and resource consumption metrics for modern digital tools.
- Cost Attribution: Define and implement robust tagging policies to ensure accurate cloud cost mapping across various business units, products, and development environments.
- Rate & Commitment Optimization: Analyze and manage commitment-based discount strategies (such as savings plans and reserved capacity) to lower overall cloud run rates.
- Waste Reduction: Partner with engineering teams to identify, track, and decommission underutilized or idle cloud infrastructure.
- Financial Forecasting: Collaborate with Corporate Finance teams to build monthly and quarterly cloud spend forecasts, highlighting variance drivers based on technical roadmaps.
- Anomaly Monitoring: Set up automated alerts to catch unexpected cost spikes early and work with operations teams to resolve them.
Required Skills & Experience - Proven experience analyzing complex cloud billing datasets and pricing structures.
- Analytical proficiency with data tools (such as SQL, Python, or major BI visualization platforms).
- Strong understanding of cost-saving mechanisms and pricing models for major public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical cloud architectures into financial business cases for leadership.
- Familiarity with FinOps frameworks and cloud optimization best practices.
Preferred Certifications - FinOps practitioner certification (or equivalent experience).
- Foundational cloud certifications (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud).