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FinOps Engineer
Location
India
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
FinOps Engineer
Sutherland
• Own cloud cost reporting across GCP and AWS — weekly, monthly, and ad hoc dashboards for engineering and business stakeholders • Drive cost optimisation: rightsizing, committed use discounts (CUDs / RIs), idle resource cleanup, storage lifecycle policies, and network egress reduction • Design and enforce a cloud tagging strategy — define taxonomy, automate compliance checks, and resolve untagged resources • Build showback and chargeback models so teams understand and are accountable for their spend • Lead monthly FinOps review meetings — present spend trends, highlight anomalies, explain variances, and recommend actions • Set up and maintain budget alerts, anomaly detection, and forecasting models • Partner with product and engineering to embed cost awareness early in architecture and feature design • Support day-to-day cloud operations on GCP and AWS: incident response, monitoring hygiene, and infrastructure health reviews • Contribute to Datadog observability — dashboards, monitors, and alert tuning, particularly for cost-correlated signals • Participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews with a cost lens on RCA • Work with platform and SRE teams on Kubernetes cluster efficiency — node utilisation, autoscaling, and namespace-level cost attribution
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of cloud infrastructure or engineering experience
- At least 3 years in a dedicated FinOps, cloud cost management, or platform economics role
- Hands-on GCP cost tooling experience — Billing export, Recommender, CUD analysis
- Proven track record of delivering measurable cloud cost savings
- Strong communication skills — you can translate a complex cost anomaly into a clear story for a non-technical stakeholder
- Experience building and maintaining tagging strategies and cost allocation frameworks
- Comfortable in a Kubernetes environment — you understand what node pools and resource limits mean in cost terms.
- Nice to have: FinOps Foundation certification (FOCP) or equivalent
- Experience with CloudZero, Apptio Cloudability, or similar FinOps platforms
- SRE or CloudOps background — you understand what drives cloud spend from the inside.
- AWS cost management experience: Savings Plans, Cost Anomaly Detection
Benefits
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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