AWS Team Lead (FinOps)

Post Date

Mar 31, 2025

Location

Englewood,
Colorado

ZIP/Postal Code

80111
US
Aug 06, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract-to-perm

Category

System Administrator

Req #

DEN-772770

Pay Rate

$59 - $74 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

- This team is FinOps for the AWS infrastructure across the enterprise advising on architecture, cost optimization, and building out automation and tooling
- This Team Lead will be responsible for leading technical direction, delegating tasks, managing processes, prioritize roadmap, etc. This individual will be heavily involved in cost reduction within AWS usage and bring to the table lead, management, or PM skills.
- Solution AWS hardening and security, and evolving network architecture, design, and infrastructure
- Produce architecture blueprints that guide the development and implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple products, providing direction to technical teams during project delivery and ensuring implementations support technology and product roadmaps.
- The Cloud Solutions Architect provides their expertise in the development and maintenance of architecture standards and solutions that align with strategic goals and partner with product managers, business analysts, designers, and software engineers to navigate solution decisions.
- Responsible for creating solutions and presenting compelling recommendations to customers.
- Define operational procedures and practices
- Automate data pipelines
- Define KPIs and set up appropriate health-checks, monitoring and escalation procedures
- Accelerate development for roadmap features, to address specific customer requirements
- Identify ongoing risks and pain points throughout the project, develop and implement mitigation measures.
- Improve internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the knowledge base, blogs, and brown bag lunches.
- Capture project lessons and convert them into architectural best practices applicable to the broader install base; mentor and coach the internal team through internal training sessions.
- Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to review customer requirements and feedback, and identify opportunities for platform enhancements Skills and Knowledge:
- Knowledge of enterprise cloud solutions, deploying and running solutions in a cloud environment, and private, public, and hybrid clouds
- Extensive experience with Internet technologies and protocols like TCP/IP, VPN, SSL and HTTP
- Hands-on experience with public and private cloud services (AWS, Openstack, VMWare, etc.) as well as load balancers and networking devices
- Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery / fail-over infrastructures
- Development experience with database or application integration technology
- Deep knowledge of Linux fundamentals
- Knowledge of Open Source architectures and/or past contributions to open source projects
- Design, development and operations experience with highly-available, scalable, and fault tolerant systems
- Experience with agile/scrum methodologies
The pay rate for this role varies depending on level and years of experience and will range from $80/hour.

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Required Skills & Experience

- 7-10+ years of DevOps experience
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS
- Python
- Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- ETL/data experience

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

- AWS certification
- FinOps background (highly desirable)

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.