Cloud Engineer (FinOps)

Job Summary (List Format): FinOps Cloud Engineer

• Act as a bridge between engineering, finance, and operations teams to manage and optimize Google Cloud Platform (GCP) costs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and improve cloud cost allocation, tagging, and reporting strategies.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on GCP usage, identifying opportunities for cost optimization, right-sizing, and waste reduction.
• Manage and optimize GCP pricing mechanisms, including Committed Use Discounts and Sustained Use Discounts.
• Address knowledge gaps and interdependencies between engineering and finance regarding cloud architecture and spending.
• Identify and implement automation for cost-reporting, budget thresholds, and anomaly detection.
• Integrate FinOps best practices into infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines with cloud engineering teams.
• Support development and maintenance of FinOps tools, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure.
• Investigate and resolve unexpected spikes in cloud billing and usage.
• Utilize GCP native billing tools and third-party FinOps dashboards for proactive cost management and alerting.
• Drive continuous improvement cycles for cloud resource performance and cost efficiency.
• Requires strong understanding of GCP billing, cost management tools, and pricing models, and hands-on experience with core GCP services.
• Proficiency in analyzing large datasets (BigQuery, SQL, etc.) for actionable cloud spend insights.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform) for implementing cost-estimation policies.
• Experience in building and maintaining financial dashboards (e.g., Looker, Grafana, PowerBI) for cloud spend tracking and reporting.
• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of experience in technology/software engineering, with 2-3 years in Cloud FinOps or related roles preferred.