FinOps Engineer

Post Date

Mar 08, 2024

Location

New York,
New York

ZIP/Postal Code

10016
US
Oct 02, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract-to-perm

Category

Technical Advisor

Req #

BOS-688665

Pay Rate

$53 - $79 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

The Finance Operations Engineer will support our client's prioritized customer in their cloud optimization efforts. The FinOps Engineer will play a critical role in evaluating the customer's cloud environment, identifying areas for optimization, and proposing solutions for implementation. This position offers the long-term opportunity to work at an industry leading global company. This role will sit onsite in New York City 2-3 times per week. Responsibilities include:



- Work with the workstreams to define Budget, manage spend, and Optimizes costs, while establishing cost controls by monitoring, and analyzing cloud bills.

- Provide technical analysis of cloud spend per account/team/environment to understand trends, to inform budget planning and business decisions about technology spend

- Create cost estimates for applications running in the cloud, in partnership with technology owners and engineers

- Lead conversations with Senior leadership on Cloud usage and forecasted expense

- Identify and recommend potential cost optimization opportunities and partner with engineers to address

- Provide financial oversight and management of cloud spend

- Analyze financial data related to cloud spends and identify trends to inform business

- Create and periodically refresh dashboards with OKRs regarding cloud spend

- Analyze cloud spend data to provide recommendations for cloud optimization (such as rightsizing, power scheduling etc.) and calculate potential savings

- Collaborate with development teams to ensure implementation of cloud optimization strategies

Define framework and leading practices to determine financial accountability, transparency, and continuous optimization to maximize business value



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Required Skills & Experience

- 8 -10 years of corporate experience within the IT infrastructure space

- Expert understanding of IT infrastructure and cloud architecture

- 3 - 5 Years as a FinOps Engineer

- Strong knowledge and experience with AWS and Cloud Optimization

- Proven ability to analyze cloud environment and create system for cost optimization

- Ability to evaluate cloud environment to gain a strong grasp of current resources, alternative resource options, and various configurations to suggest the optimal go forward

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

GCP or Azure experience

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.