FinOps Engineer – TX, AZ

# Fin Ops Engineer – TX, AZ Chandler Fin Ops
100k – 150k11/05/2026

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Job Description:

Job Title:

Fin Ops Engineer

Location:

Chandler, AZ OR Irving, TX (Hybrid – 3x/week)  Contract Length: 12 Months – Intention to Convert to FTE  Pay Rate: $81/hour – $87/hour

Note:

We are unable to consider C2C or third-party submissions.  

Role Overview  We are seeking a Fin Ops Engineer to establish and lead a new Fin Ops capability. This role is responsible for driving financial accountability, optimizing cloud and on-premise infrastructure spend, and improving forecasting across the technology organization. The position requires a hands-on technical leader who will partner with Architecture, Engineering, and Finance to embed cost as a primary operational and design consideration, leveraging automation and AI-assisted insights to generate material cost savings.

Key Responsibilities  Drive Fin Ops strategy and execution across both on-premise and cloud infrastructure, including Azure and Google Cloud Platform.  Partner with the CTO, infrastructure teams, and finance partners to embed cost accountability into design and delivery workflows.  Develop and implement application-level cost visibility, allocation, and chargeback models.  Identify and execute optimization opportunities, such as rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, and storage lifecycle management.  

Establish and manage budgeting, forecasting, anomaly detection, and variance analysis processes for technology spend.  Build automation, guardrails, and alerts to proactively detect, report on, and remediate spend issues.  Use AI-assisted insights to identify inefficiencies and automate cost-saving recommendations.  Implement and enforce tagging, allocation, and cost governance standards at an enterprise scale.  Create and present dashboards and reports to communicate insights and trends to executive leadership and stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

6-10+ years of experience in cloud, platform, or infrastructure engineering. Proven, hands-on Fin Ops expertise is the top priority for this role.  Technical

Skills:

Hands-on experience with Azure and Google Cloud Platform cost management, billing models, and optimization.  Experience managing and optimizing on-premise or hybrid infrastructure costs.  Strong automation and scripting capabilities (Python, Power Shell, Bash, or equivalent).  Demonstrated experience using AI-driven insights or anomaly detection for Fin Ops automation.  Proven ability to deliver measurable cost savings and efficiency improvements through Fin Ops practices.  Experience implementing tagging and governance standards.  

Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical cost drivers into business impact.  

Preferred Qualifications  Experience operating Fin Ops in a large-scale or multi-cloud environment.  Kubernetes or container cost optimization experience.  Experience embedding cost as a non-functional requirement (NFR) in architecture and design reviews.  Familiarity with third-party Fin Ops or cloud cost management platforms.  Fin Ops Foundation certification or demonstrated applied Fin Ops maturity.  This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.  

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