Senior Finance Operations & Site Reliability Engineer

About MasterControl

MasterControl Inc. is a leading cloud-based quality and compliance software provider for life sciences and other regulated industries. Our mission is to enableour customers to bring life-changing products to market faster while ensuring compliance and quality throughout the product lifecycle. We are committed toinnovation customer success and making a positive impact on the world.

Summary
The Senior Finance Operations & Site Reliability Engineer is a key technical leadership role that ensures the companys growing cloud infrastructure is resilient scalable and performant while remaining fiscally responsible and aligned with business growth. If you possess the qualifications and experience we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Responsibilities

FinOps & Cloud Cost Management
Lead cloud financial operations (FinOps) practices across AWS and Azure driving cost visibilityaccountability and continuous optimization
Own and manage cloud cost governance end-to-end including policy enforcement taggingstandards budgeting frameworks and chargeback/showback reporting
Build and maintain real-time dashboards and reporting tools that give Engineering Finance andLeadership clear insight into cloud spend trends and anomalies
Develop and maintain unit economics models that tie infrastructure costs directly to customer andproduct usage metrics
Identify and execute cost-saving opportunities across Reserved Instances Savings PlansSpot/Preemptible usage right-sizing and waste elimination
Evaluate AWS and Azure service utilization and deliver actionable recommendations aligned tobusiness outcomes
Define and track cloud spend KPIs ensuring financial accountability is embedded across all engineeringteams andSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Define implement and manage SLOs SLIs and error budgets across critical services and platforms
Lead incident response blameless postmortems and root cause analysis to drive measurablecontinuous improvement
Design and maintain comprehensive observability solutions including metrics logging distributedtracing and alerting to ensure full-stack visibility
Champion automation to eliminate toil accelerate deployment velocity and improve system reliabilityat scale
Embed reliability and cost-awareness into the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines in partnership with thedevelopment teams

AWS Platform Engineering
Architect manage and optimize workloads across core AWS services including:
EKS Kubernetes cluster lifecycle autoscaling node optimization and Helm-based deployments
ECS Task definition management Fargate vs. EC2 launch type optimization and service scaling
Lambda Serverless function governance cold start optimization and cost-per-invocation analysis
RDS / Aurora Instance sizing Multi-AZ configurations read replica strategies performance tuningand backup/DR management
SQL Server on RDS/EC2 Licensing optimization (BYOL vs. License Included) performance monitoringand patching strategies
EC2 Fleet management Auto Scaling Groups AMI lifecycle management and instance typeoptimization

Azure Platform Engineering
Support and optimize Azure workloads in alignment with AWS environments and broader cloudstrategy
Manage and govern AKS Azure SQL App Services and Azure Monitor/Cost Management tooling
Drive cross-cloud governance policy enforcement and unified tagging strategies to ensure consistencyand accountability across both platforms

Collaboration & Technical Leadership
Serve as a technical mentor and subject matter expert for junior and mid-level engineers elevating theteams FinOps and SRE capabilities
Contribute to architecture reviews and technical roadmaps with a reliability-first and cost-consciouslens
Partner with Engineering Product and Finance stakeholders to align infrastructure decisions withbusiness priorities and financial goals
Produce and maintain clear documentation runbooks and operational playbooks to supportoperational excellence

Basic Qualifications

5 years of experience in SRE DevOps Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering roles
3 years of hands-on FinOps experience managing cloud cost optimization at scale
Strong understanding of SaaS infrastructure architecture and customer provisioning models
Ability to translate technical infrastructure decisions into financial impact
Comfortable partnering across Engineering Finance and Operations
Deep expertise with AWS (EKS ECS Lambda RDS Aurora SQL Server EC2)
Working knowledge of Azure infrastructure and cost management tooling
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation and/or Bicep)
Strong scripting and automation skills (Python Bash Go or similar)
Experience with Kubernetes administration Helm and container security best practices
Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog Grafana/Prometheus CloudWatch Azure Monitor)
Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins ArgoCD or similar)
At least one active cloud certification is required AWS or Azure such as:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Associate or Professional)
AWS Certified Database Specialty
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Preferred Qualifications

Multiple AWS and/or Azure certifications strongly preferred
FinOps Certified Practitioner (FinOps Foundation) or equivalent experience
Experience with FinOps tooling such as CloudHealth Apptio Cloudability AWS Cost Explorer or AzureCost Management
Familiarity with database performance tuning for Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL and SQL Server
Experience in a regulated industry (financial services healthcare etc.)
Background in capacity planning and demand forecasting
Experience working in a global or multinational organization.

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

Primarily sedentary work with frequent use of computer keyboard and mouse.
Occasional lifting or moving of computer equipment or other objects up to 25 pounds may be required.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

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