Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer

Magnet Forensics


Job Location:

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: $ 130000 - 180000
Posted on: 12 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Who We Are; What We Do; Where Were Going
Magnet Forensics is a global leader in the development of digital investigative software that acquires analyzes and shares evidence from computers smartphones tablets and IoT-related devices. We are continually innovating so our customers can deploy advanced and effective tools to protect their companies communities and countries.
Serving thousands of customers globally our solutions are playing a crucial role in modernizing digital investigations helping investigators fight crime protect assets and guard national security.
With employees based around the world Magnet Forensics has been expanding our global presence. As a part of Magnet Forensics you can expect to make a difference in the world no matter what role you play. Youll be supported through learning and development not to mention an incredible team with unbelievable talent and integrity.
If you think you would be the right person to join our team working towards this goal we would love to hear from you!

Role Overview
Were seeking a Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer to join the Shared Services Engineering team at Magnet Forensics. Reporting to the Director of the Shared Services group youll enable cloud and AI cost visibility forecasting and optimization across our AWS Azure and AI environments and build the tooling and processes that give engineering and finance teams the data they need to make good decisions.
This is an engineering-first role. You will analyze but youll also automate those analyses make concrete engineering recommendations and leverage AI to operate more efficiently and effectively.
Youll operate with significant autonomy and have real influence over how we manage and optimize a material cloud investment.
This role is a great fit if youre motivated by turning complexity into clarity enjoy building tooling to eliminate manual processes and want your work to have direct and measurable business impact.
Please note: The interview process will include technical elements covering cloud architecture writing code (tool-level scripting) and cloud cost analysis.

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


Magnet is proud to offer benefits such as:
- Generous time off policies
- Competitive compensation
- Volunteer opportunities
- Reward and recognition programs
- Employee committees & resource groups
- Healthcare and retirement benefits
Indicators of Success
Were looking for someone who checks off most but not all of the boxes listed in skills and experiences. Its more important to us to find candidates who can display indicators of success through skills they have developed and experiences they have been a part of than to find folks who have been there done that. We want to be part of your development journey and well learn as much from you as you learn from us.
How We Work
At Magnet Forensics we take a hybrid-flexible approach to support your productivity and work-life balance. If youre within a comfortable travel distance to one of our offices youll occasionally join us in person. How often youll come in depends on your department and team needs typically ranging from weekly to monthly. These in-person moments help us build stronger connections spark new ideas and celebrate our successes together. Most days you can choose what works best for you while staying in tune with your teams goals.
Were excited to welcome you to our team and look forward to achieving great things together - both in the office and wherever you work best!
The Most Important Thing
Were looking for candidates that can provide examples of how they have demonstrated Magnet CODE in their previous experiences:
CARE We care about each other and our mission to make a difference in the world.
OWN We are accountable for our results while never forgetting to act with integrity empathy and respect.
DEDICATE We put our heart and soul into meeting the needs of our customers and helping them serve the people they protect.
EVOLVE We are constantly innovating and exploring new ways to work together to make an impact with our work.
Here at Magnet Forensics we are committed to continuous learning and are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. This commitment will be reflected in our hiring processes and embedded in our values and how we treat one another. If youre interested in this role but do not meet all of the qualifications listed above we encourage you to apply anyways.
Magnet Forensics is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race colour religion sex orientation national origin age disability genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal provincial or local law. We are committed to providing an inclusive accessible recruitment process and work environment. Accommodation is available to all applicants upon request throughout the hiring process. Please contact emailprotectedshould you require any accommodations.
All offers of employment at Magnet are contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check. All background checks will be conducted in accordance with all applicable laws. Magnet will consider each positions job duties among other factors in determining what constitutes satisfactory completion of the background check. Refusal to consent to a background check may be grounds for revoking an offer of employment.
US Applicants: Magnet Forensics participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Magnet Forensics handles and uses personal data of job applicants in line with itsRecruitment Privacy Policyfoundhere.
Magnet does not use artificial intelligence (defined as a machine-based system that infers from input to generate outputs such as predictions content recommendations or decisions) for screening assessing or selecting applicants. Should this practice change we will update this disclosure accordingly.

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Who We Are; What We Do; Where Were GoingMagnet Forensics is a global leader in the development of digital investigative software that acquires analyzes and shares evidence from computers smartphones tablets and IoT-related devices. We are continually innovating so our customers can deploy advanced a...

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