Senior FinOps Engineer / Cloud Cost Optimization Lead

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.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• - 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.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• We are particularly interested in candidates who have successfully implemented FinOps capabilities at scale, combining hands-on engineering expertise with automation, operational discipline and measurable financial outcomes.
• Please share suitable candidate profiles, along with their availability, proposed rates and relevant examples of FinOps implementations or cost optimization outcomes they have delivered.

Languages:

• English: C1 Advanced

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