Cloud Engineer (FinOps)

Job Summary (List Format): FinOps Cloud Engineer Act as a bridge between engineering, finance, and operations teams to manage and optimize Google Cloud Platform (GCP) costs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and improve cloud cost allocation, tagging, and reporting strategies. Monitor, analyze, and report on GCP usage, identifying opportunities for cost optimization, right-sizing, and waste reduction. Manage and optimize GCP pricing mechanisms, including Committed Use Discounts and Sustained Use Discounts. Address knowledge gaps and interdependencies between engineering and finance regarding cloud architecture and spending. Identify and implement automation for cost-reporting, budget thresholds, and anomaly detection. Integrate FinOps best practices into infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines with cloud engineering teams. Support development and maintenance of FinOps tools, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure. Investigate and resolve unexpected spikes in cloud billing and usage. Utilize GCP native billing tools and third-party FinOps dashboards for proactive cost management and alerting. Drive continuous improvement cycles for cloud resource performance and cost efficiency. Requires strong understanding of GCP billing, cost management tools, and pricing models, and hands-on experience with core GCP services. Proficiency in analyzing large datasets (BigQuery, SQL, etc.) for actionable cloud spend insights. Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform) for implementing cost-estimation policies. Experience in building and maintaining financial dashboards (e.g., Looker, Grafana, PowerBI) for cloud spend tracking and reporting. Typically requires a bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of experience in technology/software engineering, with 2-3 years in Cloud FinOps or related roles preferred.