FinOps Engineer - Remote

Duration

1 year open-ended Contract (no contract maximum)

Number of Openings

2

Role is remote, candidates can be anywhere in the US but must be able to go onsite quarterly (travel will be covered)

Must be able to work directly on W2 without sponsorship now or in the future

Client is looking to fill 2 openings (either 2 Senior candidates or 1 Senior/1 Mid level candidate)

What we're ideally looking for

Senior level preferred (can consider Mid level)

Infrastructure background (i.e. AWS Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, etc)

Python

Current FinOps Engineer specialty (not looking for a FinOps Analyst, may have a different job title other than "FinOps Engineer”)

AWS CFM (cloud financial management) and optimization such as:

• cost and usage analysis
• Savings Plans and Reserved Instance optimization
• Rightsizing
• Automation
• FinOps reporting

AWS cost tools such as Cost Explorer or Trusted Advisor

Working knowledge of AWS services in scope

VPC endpoints, Kinesis, S3 lifecycle policies, Graviton, tagging

Cloudability (experience with Cloudability Premium version and Turbonomic is a huge plus)

High-Level Individual Duties

• Take over FinOps automation work and mature the engineering side of the team
• Automate cleanup of unused VPC endpoints and create merge requests across app teams
• Drive Kinesis on-demand optimization and S3 lifecycle policy enforcement (incl. supporting the AI agent that flags buckets and opens merge requests)
• Lead enterprise-level Graviton migrations for workloads/Lambdas
• Build automation around cloud tagging standards
• Write Python automation/integrations (e.g., Lambdas deployed through templates)
• Build reporting/dashboards in Cloudability, including AI/token usage tied back to consumers
• Query Athena cost and usage tables as needed

Must-Haves (Concepts & Tools)

• Balanced 50/50 background in AWS engineering and FinOps
• Hands-on cloud cost optimization experience (actually implementing savings, not just reporting)
• Python (hard requirement) for automation and integrations, including AWS Lambda
• AWS cost tools: Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor
• Cloudability for dashboards/reporting
• Working knowledge of AWS services in scope: VPC endpoints, Kinesis, S3 lifecycle policies, Graviton, tagging
• Comfortable working through merge requests/Git-based workflows across app teams

Nice-to-Haves

• Basic SQL, specifically querying Athena cost and usage (CUR) tables
• Cloudability Premium (automating compute Savings Plans and RI strategies)
• Turbonomic for automated optimization
• Experience across the full FinOps lifecycle
• Experience with AI/token usage tracking and chargeback/showback reporting