FinOps Engineer Platform Cost Engineering Lead

Title: FinOps Engineer / Platform Cost Engineering Lead

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location- Chandler AZ / Irving TX 3 days per week

We are seeking a skilled FinOps Engineer to drive financial accountability optimize cloud spend and improve forecasting across our technology organization. This role provides hand on technical leadership for the FinOps function focused on driving efficiencies embedding cost accountability into engineering workflows and leveraging automation and AI assisted insights to reduce technology spend at scale.

The role partners closely with Architecture Engineering and Finance to ensure cost is treated as a first class operational and design consideration.

*Open for Texas location if better candidate available

Must Have Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering
• Hands on experience with Azure and GCP cost management billing models and optimization
• Experience managing and optimizing on prem or hybrid infrastructure costs
• Proven FinOps experience delivering:
  • Application level cost visibility allocation and chargeback
  • Identify optimization opportunities (rightsizing reserved instances/savings plans storage lifecycle architectural efficiencies).
  • Budgeting forecasting anomaly detection and variance analysis
  • Measurable cost savings and efficiency improvements
• Strong automation and engineering capabilities including:
  • Scripting (Python PowerShell Bash or equivalent)
  • Building automated guardrails alerts and remediation workflows
• AI assisted FinOps automation experience such as:
  • Using AI driven insights or anomaly detection to identify inefficiencies and spend risks
  • Automating cost insight generation recommendations or remediation actions
• Experience implementing tagging allocation and governance standards at scale
• Ability to integrate cost controls into engineering pipelines and operational processes
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical cost drivers into business impact

Desired Qualifications

• Experience operating FinOps in large scale or multi cloud environments
• Kubernetes or container cost optimization experience
• Experience embedding cost as a non-functional requirement (NFR) in architecture and design reviews
• Familiarity with third party FinOps or cloud cost management platforms
• FinOps Foundation certification or demonstrated applied FinOps maturity