Cloud FinOps / Cost Optimization Specialist

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Cloud FinOps / Cost Optimization Specialist to lead the financial governance, unit economics analysis, and cost optimization of our multi-million dollar public cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will analyze cloud consumption telemetry, audit wasted resources, negotiate vendor pricing limits, and systematically reduce public cloud expenditures while maintaining engineering speed and application performance metrics.

What you'll do

• Design and govern Cloud FinOps frameworks across public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP), establishing cost-allocation structures, tagging compliance matrices
• Analyze complex cloud billing telemetry and usage trends , utilizing advanced optimization tooling to identify idle compute resources, orphaned storage
• Orchestrate commitment management lifecycles , strategically sourcing, monitoring, and balancing Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans
• Build automated cost governance alerts and forecasting models , writing policy-as-code rules to flag budget anomalies, resource scaling spikes
• Lead cross-functional cloud cost efficiency sprints , collaborating with DevOps and SRE teams to drive infrastructure remediation tasks like rightsizing VMs

What you need

• AWS
• SQL
• GCP
• Azure

Good to have

• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Bash