Required FinOps Cloud Manager
Were rapidly growing and looking for another important piece of the puzzle.
Is it you?
This role is responsible for leading the FinOps practice across our Financial Compliance, ensuring optimal use of cloud resources, managing cost predictability, and maintaining financial discipline across all business units. The specialist will own and evolve the internal product pricing calculator and provide continuous insight into the expected and actual cost structure of our AWS-hosted, Kubernetes-based multi-tenant architecture.
This is a hybrid technical-financial role requiring advanced understanding of cloud architecture and pricing models, alongside financial acumen for forecasting, budgeting, modeling, and performance reporting.
Lets get down to business:
What youll do:
1. Product Pricing Ownership
Maintain and evolve the internal AWS product pricing calculator.
Translate complex Kubernetes deployment models and service configurations (e.g., OpenSearch, EKS, data transfer patterns) into actionable cost models.
Incorporate cost variability into pricing decisions, including compute, storage, cross-region transfers, and scaling dynamics.
Work with the CTO to align technical design with pricing logic and cost structure.
2. Cloud Cost Management and Optimization
Monitor real-time cloud consumption data across our environments (POC, production, demo, development).
Identify inefficiencies and over-provisioning, recommend rightsizing and reserved instance/savings plans strategies.
Set and enforce budgets per business unit, project, or environment.
Design and implement alerts, dashboards, and reporting in tools such as Anodot, AWS Cost Explorer, CloudWatch, or custom BI tools.
3. FinOps Culture Champion
Act as the central cost optimization authority across CloudOps, DevOps, Delivery, and R&D teams.
Run bi-weekly/quarterly cost review cadences and publish cost health dashboards.
Educate teams on cost-efficient architecture, usage of spot instances, caching, storage lifecycle rules, etc.
Promote accountability by assigning cost KPIs and budget adherence metrics.
4. Management Reporting and KPI Tracking
Generate executive-level insights and forecasts on cloud cost trends, anomalies, and risks.
Define and report against key FinOps KPIs such as cost/unit, cost of service, cost per deployment, budget variance, forecast accuracy.
Provide decision-making support to management based on real-time and retroactive data analysis.
Requirements: Deep understanding of AWS pricing and services: EKS, OpenSearch, S3, EC2, EBS, NAT Gateways, Transit Gateways, data transfer, VPC peering, and networking.
Solid grasp of Kubernetes deployment patterns and multi-tenant architectures.
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred), monitoring tools, and cost analytics platforms.
Familiarity with anomaly detection systems, logging/observability platforms, and CI/CD cost implications.
Proven experience in cost modeling, forecasting, and budget control in cloud-native environments.
Experience with financial dashboards, reporting tools, or BI platforms (e.g., Anodot, PowerBI, Tableau).
Strong analytical thinking with the ability to simplify and present complex financial data.
Prior experience supporting enterprise-level pricing and cost governance initiatives.
Proactive, detail-oriented, and collaborative mindset.
Ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Comfortable driving change and instilling cost ownership across multiple teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent certification.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect / Advanced Networking or similar.
Background in SaaS, compliance, or regulated environments is a plus.
This position is open to all candidates.