FinOps Engineer
$1,000,000–$1,500,000 year
On-sitePune, Maharashtra, India
Job Summary
FinOps Engineer role focused on cloud cost optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Collaborate with Engineering, SRE, Product, and Finance to improve cloud spending visibility, optimize resource utilization, and implement cost-conscious engineering practices. Responsibilities include analyzing and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs, identifying cost leaks and inefficiencies across compute, storage, networking, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and SaaS platforms; designing and maintaining cost dashboards and reporting; leading cloud cost reviews; optimizing Kubernetes infrastructure; implementing automated monitoring, alerts, and anomaly detection for spending; integrating cost governance into CI/CD and IaC; collaborating on budgeting, forecasting, and unit economics; building automation for reporting; promoting FinOps best practices and evaluating FinOps platforms. Requires hands-on cloud experience, IaC proficiency, scripting, DevOps tooling, and strong communication for cross-functional collaboration.
Required Qualifications
- Key Responsibilities
- Continuously analyze and optimize cloud infrastructure costs across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
- Identify underutilized resources, cost leaks, and inefficiencies across compute, storage, networking, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and SaaS platforms.
- Develop and implement cloud cost optimization strategies, including rightsizing, storage optimization, autoscaling improvements, and workload scheduling.
- Design and maintain cost visibility dashboards, reporting frameworks, and chargeback/showback models for business stakeholders.
- Lead regular cloud cost reviews and provide actionable recommendations to engineering and leadership teams.
- Optimize Kubernetes infrastructure through resource tuning, node optimization, autoscaling configurations, and cost-management tools.
- Implement automated monitoring, alerts, and anomaly detection systems to proactively identify unexpected spending patterns.
- Integrate cost governance controls into CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code templates, and deployment processes.
- Collaborate with Finance teams on budgeting, forecasting, cloud spend analysis, and unit economics reporting.
- Build automation solutions using scripting languages to streamline reporting and cost management activities.
- Drive adoption of FinOps best practices across engineering teams and promote a culture of cloud cost accountability.
- Evaluate and implement FinOps platforms and cloud-native cost management tools to improve operational efficiency.
- Document optimization initiatives, savings opportunities, and governance processes to support long-term cost management objectives.
- What Makes You a Great Fit
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