Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer
Job Summary
What Youll Do
Own cloud cost visibility across AWS and Azure: maintain tagging hygiene virtual cost allocation and the tooling (Finout and related) that surfaces accurate spend by product team and workload;
Identify and enable and/or drive cost savings measures;
Automate workflows for routine activities like bill reconciliation and payment;
Enhance and maintain budget forecasting capability such that we can forecast monthly with high accuracy and low overhead;
Evolve unit economics frameworks: instrument the pipeline that collects product telemetry routes it to cost allocation tooling and produces dashboards that show cost-per-unit across relevant dimensions;
Make recommendations for Savings Plans and Reserved Instances across AWS services (EC2 RDS OpenSearch and others) and track realized savings;
Monitor for cost anomalies and optimization opportunities: maintain alerting and review cadences that surface anomalies early and drive remediation with the relevant engineering teams.
What Were Looking For
2 years of industry experience with meaningful depth in cloud cost management Financial Operations (FinOps) or cloud platform engineering with a strong cost focus;
Hands-on experience with AWS cost and billing: understands the structure of AWS invoices Cost Explorer Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) and how tagging strategies affect cost allocation accuracy;
Experience with Azure cost management is also an asset;
Familiarity with AI cost concepts
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts that affect costs and modelling;
Builds tooling that automates financial and/or analysis workflows not just monitored or maintained dashboards someone else built;
Works with a FinOps platform (Finout Apptio Cloudability CloudHealth or similar) beyond basic reporting: understands virtual tagging allocation rules and how to get accurate per-product cost visibility from messy shared infrastructure;
Develops and executes a savings plan or reservation strategy: has analyzed usage modeled commitment options made a recommendation and tracked the outcome;
Writes code or scripting to automate workflows: Python Bash or equivalent;
Leverages AI to responsibly accelerate analysis and tooling creation;
Communicates clearly across technical and financial audiences: can explain cost drivers to an engineer and budget variances to a finance partner without losing either audience;
Brings a continuous improvement mindset: identifies toil proposes fixes and follows through takes ownership with minimal direction.
- Must be able to operate within approximately Eastern Time Zone hours.
Compensation & Benefits
The Compensation range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. Please note that the actual compensation may vary depending on location and job-related factors such as qualifications experience knowledge and skills. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location and you are selected for an interview the Talent Acquisition Partner can share more information with you. If the compensation structure for the role includes an incentive component (i.e. most Sales roles) the range below represents total target compensation (TTC) (base salary variable).
$130000 - $180000 CDN a year
Salary range (min - max)
Position Type: New Position
Required Experience:
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