FinOps Engineer

Who We Are

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About The Job

We are seeking a FinOps Engineer to optimize cloud costs and enhance financial accountability across Brightly. The role involves working closely with engineering and finance to manage AWS/Azure expenditures, design tagging structures, automate cost reporting and apply FinOps best practices to improve cloud efficiency and thus, to add on business value.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Proactively monitor, collect, and analyze cloud and SaaS usage/spending data to identify cost drivers, waste, and opportunities for optimization.
• Develop and implement strategies and automation to reduce cloud costs, such as right-sizing resources, managing reserved instances (RIs) and Savings Plans, and implementing policy-as-code for resource governance.
• Drive a culture of financial accountability by implementing accurate cost allocation, showback/chargeback mechanisms, and creating clear, actionable cost visibility reports and dashboards for engineering and business stakeholders.
• Assist with developing and maintaining cloud cost forecasting models and tracking actual spend against budgets, providing alerts for anomalies or unplanned spikes.
• Partner closely with engineering, DevOps, finance, and business teams to embed FinOps principles into the application development lifecycle, providing guidance and training on cost-efficient cloud architectures and best practices.
• Define, implement, and enforce proper resource tagging policies to ensure accurate cost attribution and allocation across business units, environments, and applications.
• Collaborate with cloud and SaaS service providers to understand pricing models, discounts, and assist in negotiating contracts to ensure cost-effectiveness.
• Regularly review and refine FinOps processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency and effectiveness in cloud financial management.
• Drive quality accountability within the organization with well-defined processes, metrics, and goals for process quality.
  
  

What You Need

• Bachelor’s or Masters’s Degree in computer science or related discipline; or equivalent work experience
• Deep knowledge of AWS billing & cost tools (Cost Explorer, CUR, Budgets, Savings Plans, RI utilization)
• Tagging & account structure design
• Tagging would be huge
• Automation (scripting in Python/Bash, APIs for cost data extraction)
• Simple data extraction via an API into dashboards/Excel would be extremely helpful
• Optimization practices: rightsizing, storage tiering, spot instance usage, autoscaling strategies
• Familiar with FinOps Framework (cloud cost culture, unit economics, accountability)
• Strong communication, partnership, teamwork and influencing skills required that can close the gaps between technology and finance.
• Excellent time management, communication, decision-making, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge and depth in cloud services.
• Relevant Certifications
• Cloud Provider Certs
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Azure Administrator
• FinOps-Specific (finance side)
• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) → industry standard, entry-level credential from the FinOps Foundation
• FinOps Certified Professional – advanced
• Data / Reporting (nice to have)
• Experience building automation and reports from AWS CUR Files
• BI tools (Power BI) for visibility dashboards
• DAX experiences necessary
• Python for automation of cost reporting
• Cool to have, but not the most important
  
  

The Brightly culture

We’re guided by a vision of community that serves the ambitions and wellbeing of all people, and our professional communities are no exception. We model that ideal every day by being supportive, collaborative partners to one another, conscientiously making space for our colleagues to grow and thrive. Our passionate team is driven to create a future where smarter infrastructure protects the environments that shape and connect us all. That brighter future starts with us.

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