Associate IT Systems Engineer

Associate IT Systems Engineer

The Cloud Fin Ops Engineer is responsible for optimizing cloud financial management practices across enterprise cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This role serves as the bridge between Finance, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, and Application teams to ensure cloud resources are cost-effective, properly governed, accurately allocated, and aligned with business objectives.

The Cloud Fin Ops Engineer provides financial visibility into cloud spending, develops cost optimization strategies, supports budgeting and forecasting activities, and drives accountability through chargeback/showback reporting. The role is instrumental in establishing a culture of cost awareness while enabling innovation and business growth through efficient cloud adoption.

• Monitor and analyze cloud spending across AWS, Azure, and OCI environments.
• Develop and maintain cloud cost allocation, chargeback, and showback models.
• Prepare monthly cloud financial reports, variance analyses, and executive dashboards.
• Support annual budget planning and ongoing cloud spend forecasting.
• Track cloud consumption trends and identify opportunities for cost reduction.

• Identify underutilized, idle, or oversized cloud resources.
• Recommend and implement optimization initiatives including:
  • Rightsizing computing resources
  • Storage lifecycle optimization
  • Resource scheduling and automation
  • Reserved capacity and savings plans
  • Backup and retention optimization
• Quantify financial impact and realized savings from optimization initiatives.
• Track and report cost savings achieved through Fin Ops programs.

• Monitor and manage the Cloud Infrastructure service requests.
• Triage, prioritize, and coordinate resolution of cloud-related incidents, requests, and operational issues.
• Work with Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Application, Security, and vendor teams to ensure timely ticket resolution.
• Provide cost analysis and financial impact assessments for cloud service requests, upgrades, and infrastructure changes.
• Track recurring support trends and identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and service improvement.
• Maintain documentation, knowledge articles, and standard operating procedures related to cloud financial operations and cloud service delivery.
• Ensure cloud service requests comply with established governance, budgeting, tagging, and cost allocation standards.

• Develop and enforce cloud tagging and cost attribution standards.
• Partner with cloud platform teams to ensure financial accountability of cloud resources.
• Support Cloud Governance and Cloud Operating Model initiatives.
• Assist in establishing policies, guardrails, and reporting standards related to cloud financial management.

• Build dashboards and reports using Power BI, Excel, Cloud Health, native cloud tools, or equivalent platforms.
• Analyze cost drivers, trends, business consumption patterns, and forecasting models.
• Produce cloud KPI and Fin Ops metrics including:
  • Cost per application
  • Cost per business unit
  • Budget versus actual spending
  • Optimization savings realized

• Collaborate with Finance teams during planning, budgeting, and forecasting cycles.
• Advise application owners and business stakeholders on cloud cost implications.
• Support business cases and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis for cloud projects.
• Provide cost estimates for new cloud deployments, cloud migrations, and infrastructure modifications.

• Automate reporting and cost data collection processes.
• Improve cost visibility through tagging,…