Associate IT Systems Engineer

Job Posting Title

Associate IT Systems Engineer

Job Description Summary

The Cloud FinOps Engineer is responsible for optimizing cloud financial management practices across enterprise cloud platforms including AWS Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This role serves as the bridge between Finance Cloud Engineering Infrastructure and Application teams to ensure cloud resources are cost-effective properly governed accurately allocated and aligned with business objectives.

The Cloud FinOps Engineer provides financial visibility into cloud spending develops cost optimization strategies supports budgeting and forecasting activities and drives accountability through chargeback/showback reporting. The role is instrumental in establishing a culture of cost awareness while enabling innovation and business growth through efficient cloud adoption.

Job Description:

Cloud Financial Management

• Monitor and analyze cloud spending across AWS Azure and OCI environments.
• Develop and maintain cloud cost allocation chargeback and showback models.
• Prepare monthly cloud financial reports variance analyses and executive dashboards.
• Support annual budget planning and ongoing cloud spend forecasting.
• Track cloud consumption trends and identify opportunities for cost reduction.

Cost Optimization

• Identify underutilized idle or oversized cloud resources.
• Recommend and implement optimization initiatives including:
  • Rightsizing computing resources
  • Storage lifecycle optimization
  • Resource scheduling and automation
  • Reserved capacity and savings plans
  • Backup and retention optimization
• Quantify financial impact and realized savings from optimization initiatives.
• Track and report cost savings achieved through FinOps programs.

Service & Operational Support

• Monitor and manage the Cloud Infrastructure service requests.
• Triage prioritize and coordinate resolution of cloud-related incidents requests and operational issues.
• Work with Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Application Security and vendor teams to ensure timely ticket resolution.
• Provide cost analysis and financial impact assessments for cloud service requests upgrades and infrastructure changes.
• Track recurring support trends and identify opportunities for automation optimization and service improvement.
• Maintain documentation knowledge articles and standard operating procedures related to cloud financial operations and cloud service delivery.
• Ensure cloud service requests comply with established governance budgeting tagging and cost allocation standards.

Governance & Compliance

• Develop and enforce cloud tagging and cost attribution standards.
• Partner with cloud platform teams to ensure financial accountability of cloud resources.
• Support Cloud Governance and Cloud Operating Model initiatives.
• Assist in establishing policies guardrails and reporting standards related to cloud financial management.

Reporting & Analytics

• Build dashboards and reports using Power BI Excel Cloud Health native cloud tools or equivalent platforms.
• Analyze cost drivers trends business consumption patterns and forecasting models.
• Produce cloud KPI and FinOps metrics including:
  • Cost per application
  • Cost per business unit
  • Budget versus actual spending
  • Optimization savings realized

Business Partnership

• Collaborate with Finance teams during planning budgeting and forecasting cycles.
• Advise application owners and business stakeholders on cloud cost implications.
• Support business cases and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis for cloud projects.
• Provide cost estimates for new cloud deployments cloud migrations and infrastructure modifications.

Process Improvement & Automation

• Automate reporting and cost data collection processes.
• Improve cost visibility through tagging dashboards and self-service reporting.
• Support continuous improvement of the organizations FinOps maturity and Cloud Operating Model.
• Develop scripts reports and automation workflows to improve operational efficiency and cloud cost transparency.

All other duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Education

• Bachelors degree in information technology Computer Science Finance Accounting Business Analytics or related field preferred.
• 2 years of experience in cloud platforms cloud operations financial analysis infrastructure operations or FinOps.
• Experience with AWS Microsoft Azure and/or OCI cost management tools.
• Strong analytical organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience developing reports and dashboards using Power BI or similar tools.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure services including compute storage networking databases backup and disaster recovery.
• Experience working with IT service management platforms such as ServiceNow Freshservice or equivalent ticketing systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

About Dauch:

Dauch Corporation is a premier Driveline and Metal Forming supplier serving the global automotive industry with a powertrain-agnostic product portfolio that supports electric hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. The company is headquartered in Detroit MI with operations that span 24 countries and more than 175 locations. Formed through the acquisition of Dowlais Group plc and its subsidiaries - GKN Automotive and GKN Powder Metallurgy Dauch unites deep engineering roots with global manufacturing capabilities and an entrepreneurial spirit to move mobility forward. Visit to learn more.