FinOps Engineer

📋 Description

• Own cloud cost reporting across GCP and AWS — weekly, monthly, and ad hoc dashboards for
• Drive cost optimisation: rightsizing, committed use discounts (CUDs / RIs), idle resource cleanup
• Design and enforce a cloud tagging strategy — define taxonomy, automate compliance checks, and
• Build showback and chargeback models so teams understand and are accountable for their spend.
• Lead monthly FinOps review meetings — present spend trends, highlight anomalies, explain variances
• Set up and maintain budget alerts, anomaly detection, and forecasting models.

TECH STACK

Required

• GCP — primary cloud platform (Billing API, BigQuery cost export, CUD analyser, GCP Recommender)
• AWS — secondary cloud platform (Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, Trusted Advisor)
• Kubernetes — node pools, resource requests/limits, namespace cost attribution
• Datadog — monitoring and cost dashboards
• Terraform — infrastructure as code for cost-related configurations

Good to have

• CloudZero — unit economics and cost allocation
• Istio — service mesh and traffic cost observability
• Python or SQL — cost data analysis and automation
• Looker or Grafana — cost visualisation