{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"a3335a565a606d8e0dd68128","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a3335a565a606d8e0dd68128","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a3335a565a606d8e0dd68128","title":"Managed Services Cloud Engineer - FinOps","description":"AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.\r\nAt AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.\r\nWe are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.\r\nWe embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.\r\nManaged Services Cloud Engineer - FinOps\r\nThis role supports cloud financial management, optimization, and governance activities across multiple managed services clients. It combines public cloud knowledge, financial and operational analysis, customer-facing communication, and execution discipline to help clients improve visibility, accountability, forecasting accuracy, and cost efficiency across AWS, Azure, OCI, and/or GCP. The role is expected to independently own standard and moderately complex FinOps analyses and operational activities while escalating higher-complexity modeling, client strategy, or service design issues to senior engineers or team leads as appropriate.\r\nRoles & Responsibilities\r\nAnalyze cloud spend, usage trends, allocation accuracy, anomalies, and optimization opportunities across AWS, Azure, OCI, and/or GCP using native tooling and approved third-party FinOps platforms.\r\nIdentify, quantify, prioritize, and help drive optimization opportunities including rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, storage optimization, licensing alignment, commitment-based savings, and scheduling strategies.\r\nDevelop financially grounded findings and recommendations that translate technical observations into clear business value for engineering, finance, procurement, and operational stakeholders.\r\nCreate dashboards, reports, budgets, forecasts, showback and chargeback views, executive summaries, and recurring service review content for internal and customer-facing use.\r\nSupport cost allocation and tagging activities including governance standards, mapping logic, reporting accuracy, inherited tag strategies, and handling of non-taggable resources.\r\nPartner with CloudOps, platform, application, finance, procurement, and client stakeholders to support implementation of recommendations and validate realized outcomes.\r\nSupport onboarding of new clients, accounts, subscriptions, projects, and billing data sources into approved FinOps tooling, reporting workflows, and governance structures.\r\nPerform data validation and reconciliation across billing exports, connectors, cost datasets, and reporting models to improve trust in reported values.\r\nUse spreadsheets, reporting tools, scripting, automation, and process standardization to reduce manual effort, improve repeatability, and increase delivery quality and scale.\r\nMaintain timely ticket updates, work documentation, meeting follow-ups, and internal or customer communications in accordance with service delivery expectations.\r\nStay current on cloud pricing models, FinOps best practices, and service capabilities while helping refine how the organization delivers cloud cost optimization and advisory services.\r\nProvide occasional after-hours support for client meetings, reporting deadlines, change windows, critical incidents, or urgent cost-related issues when required.\r\nOther job duties as assigned.\r\nQualifications\r\nMinimum Required - Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, finance, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience.\r\n3+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud engineering, cloud operations, infrastructure support, cloud cost management, or related disciplines.\r\nDemonstrated experience supporting multi-account, multi-subscription, or enterprise cloud environments.\r\nHands-on experience with at least one major public cloud provider; strong Azure or AWS experience preferred, with GCP exposure considered a plus.\r\nExperience using cloud cost management, billing analysis, or reporting platforms, whether native cloud tools or approved third-party solutions.\r\nExperience in a customer-facing, stakeholder-facing, consulting, or service delivery role with responsibility for presenting findings and recommendations.\r\nStrong analytical, spreadsheet, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a shared services or multi-client environment.\r\nPreferred - Experience working in a managed services, consulting, or outsourced service delivery environment.\r\nExperience supporting more than one public cloud provider in a FinOps or cost optimization capacity.\r\nRelevant certifications such as FinOps Certified Practitioner, AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications.\r\nExperience with platforms such as Harness CCM, Apptio Cloudability, CloudZero, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, or PowerShell.\r\nExperience with forecasting, budgeting, allocation methodologies, showback or chargeback models, commitment planning, and savings realization tracking.\r\nFamiliarity with ticketing and workflow platforms such as ServiceNow, Jira, or similar tools.\r\nSkills & Abilities\r\nStrong understanding of cloud billing constructs including on-demand usage, reserved capacity, savings plans or commitments, amortization, allocation methods, and forecasting drivers.\r\nStrong analytical skills with the ability to interpret datasets, identify trends, quantify financial impact, and convert findings into prioritized recommendations.\r\nAbility to communicate technical and financial concepts clearly to technical, operational, procurement, finance, and executive audiences.\r\nStrong written, verbal, and presentation skills with a professional customer-facing presence and the ability to lead recurring advisory discussions.\r\nAbility to work independently in standard and moderately complex situations while also collaborating effectively across distributed teams, time zones, and functions.\r\nStrong documentation, organization, and time management skills with consistent follow-through and attention to detail.\r\nDemonstrated ownership mindset with the ability to balance competing priorities in a fast-paced multi-client environment while maintaining service quality.\r\nContinuous improvement mindset with an interest in automation, standardization, methodology refinement, and scalable service delivery.\r\nAbility to contribute positively to team capability, documentation quality, and knowledge sharing.\r\nCompensation\r\nSalary: $115,000 – $125,000 per year (On-Target Earnings include base salary and any applicable target bonus).\r\nBenefits\r\nUSA Employment Benefits include\r\nMedical, Dental, and Vision Insurance\r\n401(k)\r\nPaid company holidays\r\nPaid time off\r\nPaid parental and caregiver leave\r\nPlus more! 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