Cloud Engineer (FinOps)
Job Location:
Job Location:
Birmingham, MI - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
17 days ago
Posted on:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
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 bachelors degree and 3-5 years of experience in technology/software engineering with 2-3 years in Cloud FinOps or related roles preferred.
- 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 bachelors degree and 3-5 years of experience in technology/software engineering with 2-3 years in Cloud FinOps or related roles preferred.
