FinOps Engineer: Cloud Cost Strategy & Governance

Net Documents is the world’s #1 trusted cloud-based content management and productivity platform that helps legal professionals do their best work. We strive to win together through passionate hard work, exploring new things and recognizing every interaction matters.

Net Documents provides rewarding career growth in an inclusive, diverse environment where employees are encouraged to openly contribute creative ideas and innovation, backed by supportive peers and leadership working together to achieve our goals as a unified team.

Net Documents is seeking a Staff Fin Ops Engineer to lead cloud financial operations across AWS and Azure. In this role, you will drive financial governance, cost visibility, and optimization strategies across a large-scale multi‑cloud SaaS environment, partnering closely with Cloud Ops, Engineering, Finance, and leadership teams to improve operational efficiency and maximize business value.

This highly strategic and hands‑on role is grounded in the Fin Ops Foundation Framework, with direct accountability for translating financial insights into engineering action and measurable cost optimization outcomes.

• Drive Fin Ops practices across AWS and Azure using the Fin Ops Foundation Framework domains:
  Understand Usage and Cost, Quantify Business Value, Optimize Usage and Cost, and Manage the Fin Ops Practice.
• Establish and maintain cost allocation models, tagging standards, and governance frameworks that enable accurate, actionable financial visibility.
• Develop and enforce cloud financial policies, standards, and operational best practices across Engineering and Cloud Ops teams.
• Partner with leadership to support cloud cost reduction initiatives and long‑term infrastructure efficiency goals.

• Own and manage Cloud Zero configuration, including taxonomy, tagging governance, and cost allocation rules.
• Deliver actionable reporting and analysis for Engineering, Product, Finance, and leadership stakeholders, including anomaly detection, trend analysis, forecasting, and variance reporting.
• Maintain visibility across AWS, Azure, Datadog, Elastic, and related platforms.
• Advance cost intelligence initiatives, including unit economics and cost‑per‑customer analysis.
• Identify and drive optimization opportunities across Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, rightsizing, storage optimization, and SaaS licensing.
• Develop and maintain utilization and cost‑per‑unit reporting across key infrastructure and vendor platforms.
• Partner with Engineering teams to improve cost‑aware architecture and operational decision‑making.
• Track optimization initiatives through measurable outcomes and ongoing KPI reporting.

• Embed Fin Ops processes into budgeting, forecasting, operational reviews, and engineering workflows.
• Coach Engineering and Cloud Ops teams on cost accountability and sustainable financial operations under a “You Build It, You Run It” model.
• Automate repeatable governance and reporting workflows using SQL, Python, and infrastructure tooling.
• Drive adoption of emerging Fin Ops standards such as the Fin Ops Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).

• Establish financial visibility and governance models for AI and machine learning workloads, including cost‑per‑token analysis and budget guardrails.
• Partner with teams across the organization to evaluate evolving infrastructure usage patterns and cost drivers.
• Help shape scalable financial operating models for emerging technologies and cloud‑native platforms.

• 5+ years of experience in cloud financial management, Fin Ops, cloud infrastructure operations, or related disciplines.
• Deep expertise in AWS cost architecture and strong working knowledge of Azure cost management.
• Experience administering Fin Ops platforms, including ownership of cost allocation rules, tagging governance, and financial reporting structures.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for reporting, analysis, and automation.
• Experience building cloud cost forecasts, financial models, and…