Job Description
Own cloud cost optimization across a large, multi-account AWS estate for a financial-services client running regulated workloads and sensitive financial data.
Deep AWS cost engineering with real financial literacy.
Own the FinOps practice across AWS Organizations: account structure, consolidated billing, tagging, cost allocation, and chargeback/showback.
Identify and deliver savings: rightsizing, Savings Plans/RI management, storage tiering, data-transfer optimization, cost-driven architecture changes.
Build cost visibility and controls: CUR pipelines (Athena/QuickSight or third-party tools), budgets, anomaly detection, and governance guardrails.
Partner with Finance/FP&A on forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and cloud unit economics, and present savings and KPIs to executive stakeholders.
Embed cost awareness into engineering teams via architecture reviews, IaC, and CI/CD, while respecting regulatory constraints (data residency, retention, audit).
Mentor engineers and analysts and grow FinOps capability within the client and our team.
Job Responsibilities
8+ years in cloud infrastructure or cloud financial management, including 4+ years focused on AWS cost optimization at scale (multi-account, multi-million-dollar annual spend).
Deep expertise with AWS cost tooling and pricing: Cost Explorer, CUR, Budgets, Compute Optimizer, Savings Plans/RI mechanics, Organizations/Control Tower, and how compute, storage, database, and networking choices drive cost.
Financial background or strong financial expertise
Experience with large AWS platforms in financial services (banking, payments, capital markets, insurance, or fintech).
SQL and Python for CUR analysis and automation; Terraform or CloudFormation.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders from engineers to C-level.
Nice to have
FinOps Certified Practitioner/Professional, AWS Professional certifications, third-party FinOps platforms (CloudHealth, Cloudability, CloudZero, Kubecost), EDP/Private Pricing negotiation support, and multi-cloud or data-platform (Snowflake, Databricks) cost management.
Education
Bachelor's or Master s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.