Cloud Engineer; FinOps

Job Summary (Fin Ops Cloud Engineer)

• Act as a bridge between engineering, finance, and operations teams to manage and optimize Google Cloud Platform (GCP) costs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and improve cloud cost allocation, tagging, and reporting strategies.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on GCP usage, identifying opportunities for cost optimization, right‑sizing, and waste reduction.
• Manage and optimize GCP pricing mechanisms, including Committed Use Discounts and Sustained Use Discounts.
• Address knowledge gaps and interdependencies between engineering and finance regarding cloud architecture and spending.
• Identify and implement automation for cost‑reporting, budget thresholds, and anomaly detection.
• Integrate Fin Ops best practices into infrastructure‑as‑code and deployment pipelines with cloud engineering teams.
• Support development and maintenance of Fin Ops tools, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure.
• Investigate and resolve unexpected spikes in cloud billing and usage.
• Utilize GCP native billing tools and third‑party Fin Ops dashboards for proactive cost management and alerting.
• Drive continuous improvement cycles for cloud resource performance and cost efficiency.
• Requires strong understanding of GCP billing, cost management tools, and pricing models, and hands‑on experience with core GCP services.
• Proficiency in analyzing large datasets (Big Query, SQL, etc.) for actionable cloud spend insights.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform) for implementing cost‑estimation policies.
• Experience in building and maintaining financial dashboards (e.g., Looker, Grafana, Power
  
  BI) for cloud spend tracking and reporting.
• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of experience in technology/software engineering, with 2-3 years in Cloud Fin Ops or related roles preferred.