Senior FinOps Engineer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Project description
We are looking to engage an experienced Senior FinOps Engineer / Cloud Cost Optimization Lead to help us establish a sustainable cloud cost optimization practice within our Data Platforms group.
Our objective is not simply a one-time AWS cost assessment or cleanup. We want to achieve measurable infrastructure cost reductions while establishing a long-term, proactive FinOps capability that continuously identifies, prevents and remediates infrastructure waste.
The role is for subcontractors.
Responsibilities
Cost Optimization: Analyze AWS spending across accounts, services and workloads; identify optimization opportunities; establish clear dollar reduction targets; and drive implementation of measurable savings.
Proactive Monitoring & Remediation: Implement automated detection of infrastructure waste, underutilized resources, cost anomalies and inefficient configurations, with actionable remediation workflows.
Engineering Automation & Guardrails: Embed cost-efficiency practices into infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD and operational processes to prevent recurring waste.
FinOps Governance: Establish cost ownership, allocation, budgets, forecasting, reporting and a regular operational review cadence.
Sustainable Operating Model: Build a continuous feedback loop for identifying, prioritizing, implementing and validating optimizations, with documented processes, automation and knowledge transfer to our engineering teams.
Skills
Must have
Strong hands-on AWS infrastructure engineering and FinOps experience, with a demonstrated track record of delivering measurable cost savings.
Expertise in AWS cost management tools (Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, Compute Optimizer, Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, etc.).
Experience optimizing AWS services, particularly EMR, EC2, Glue, Athena, S3 and other data platform infrastructure.
Strong Python, SQL, Terraform and infrastructure automation skills.
Experience establishing and operationalizing continuous FinOps practices, not just performing cost analysis or generating recommendations.
Ability to work directly with engineering teams to implement optimizations and establish sustainable operational processes.
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Responsibilities
Analyze AWS spending and deliver measurable cost reductions by identifying and implementing optimization opportunities. Establish automated monitoring and remediation, cost governance, engineering guardrails, and a sustainable FinOps operating model with documented processes and knowledge transfer.
Requirements
Requires strong hands-on AWS infrastructure engineering and FinOps experience, with a demonstrated record of measurable cost savings and expertise in AWS cost management tools and data platform services. Candidates must also have strong Python, SQL, Terraform, and automation skills, and be able to work with engineering teams to operationalize continuous cost optimization.
Skills
- AWS Infrastructure Engineering
- FinOps
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- AWS Cost Explorer
- Cost and Usage Reports
- AWS Compute Optimizer
- AWS Budgets
- Cost Anomaly Detection
- EMR
- EC2
- AWS Glue
- Amazon Athena
- Amazon S3
- Python
- SQL
- Terraform
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- Technology
- Engineering
- Finance & Accounting
- Data & Analytics
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Keywords
- AWS
- FinOps
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- Cost Explorer
- Cost and Usage Reports
- Compute Optimizer
- AWS Budgets
- Cost Anomaly Detection
- EMR
- EC2
- AWS Glue
- Amazon Athena
- Amazon S3
- Python
- SQL
- Terraform
- Infrastructure Automation
- CI/CD
- Cost Allocation
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Cost Governance
- Automated Remediation
- Cost Anomaly Monitoring
- Data Platforms
- Infrastructure Provisioning