The FinOps Engineer role is focused on improving cloud cost efficiency and increasing financial accountability across the organization. You will help ensure cloud spending delivers maximum business value by improving visibility, reducing waste, and supporting better decision-making around infrastructure investment.
This position works closely with engineering and finance teams to build forecasting and budgeting processes, create cost allocation models, and establish cloud financial policies. You will also help promote FinOps best practices across development teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain cost allocation models that improve transparency into cloud spend across teams.
- Identify cloud cost-saving opportunities by finding architectural waste and underused resources.
- Implement and oversee cloud financial policies using cost management tools.
- Partner with engineering and finance teams on forecasting and budgeting processes.
- Track and report cloud efficiency metrics to support infrastructure investment decisions.
- Train development teams on FinOps practices to encourage cost-aware engineering.
Required Skills
- 4+ years of experience in Cloud Financial Management, FinOps, or Cloud Engineering.
- Demonstrated experience optimizing cloud spending and building cost allocation models.
- Experience with cloud cost management tools such as CloudHealth, Kubecost, or AWS Cost Explorer.
- Experience identifying architectural waste and applying cloud governance policies.
- Strong ability to analyze cloud usage and identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Advanced English proficiency.
FinOps Responsibilities
- Cloud spend optimization
- Cost allocation modeling
- Cloud cost visibility
- Cloud governance policy implementation
- Forecasting and budgeting support
- Cloud efficiency metric reporting
- Identification of architectural waste
- Resource utilization analysis
- FinOps enablement for development teams
- 100% remote work from anywhere.
- Compensation paid in USD or local currency, if preferred.
- Hardware and software provided for work from home.
- Flexible working hours.
- Paid parental leave, vacation, and national holidays.
- Mentorship, promotions, skill development, and growth opportunities.
- Multicultural and international work environment.
This role offers the opportunity to work on cloud financial management in a position with clear impact on business value and infrastructure efficiency. It combines cost optimization, governance, forecasting, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering and finance. The position is fully remote and includes flexible scheduling, general collaboration, and support for professional development.