AWS Cloud Engineer/FinOps SME

Radiansys - Dallas, TX

Full-time

Dallas, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As an AWS Cloud Engineer with FinOps implementation experience, you will play a key role in optimizing our cloud infrastructure costs while ensuring maximum performance and reliability. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, and maintain AWS cloud solutions aligned with our business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Deep technical expertise across multiple technical domains including cloud computing, security, identity and access management, and IT infrastructure.
• Strong technical knowledge in designing, deploying, and managing AWS Infrastructure & security services (EC2, ELB, Guardduty, Config, Inspector, Security Hub, RDS, Route53, S3, vpc, vpn, tgw, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, eventbridge, etc.) using best practices.
• Hands-on experience in Terraform IaaC deployments and to configure cost as a lead indicator.
• Support the cloud monthly budget and forecast process in managing consumption, show back, chargeback, and savings in collaboration with accounting, finance, and technical owners.
• Analyze, report, and produce meaningful insights from large raw datasets within cloud billing and usage tools, data lake, CMDB, and other asset inventories as applicable.
• Monitor cloud consumption at the account level to detect, investigate, and escalate anomalies and unplanned spikes.
• Developing and implementing strategies to optimize cloud costs.
• Evaluate and investigate data patterns to derive insightful knowledge to inform strategic and operational decisions.
• Collaborating with finance, operations, and technology teams to drive cost optimization initiatives.
• Analyzing cloud usage patterns and trends to identify areas for optimization.
• Recommending changes to cloud service usage, pricing models, and purchasing options.
• Developing and maintaining financial models to forecast and track cloud costs.
• Working with cloud service providers to negotiate pricing and contracts.
• Support reports and dashboards to track and communicate cloud cost optimization efforts to stakeholders.
• Develop Governance, Reporting, Processes, and Culture to support and enforce FinOps KPIs.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps tools and processes, and CI/CD systems.
• Experience with cloud containers and/or Kubernetes security best practices.

Requirements

• Min 5+ years of relevant experience in Cloud FinOps/Cloud Spend optimization
• Good knowledge of AWS product portfolio, and commercial models
• Knowledge of the core Finance principles and basic understanding of the corporate accounting process (forecast, Chargeback, invoicing, showback, chargeback, accruals, etc.)
• Ability to properly structure, model, and visualize cloud platform data to support decision-making.
• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations to leaders.
• Ability to work independently with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Aptitude to learn and understand new concepts and technologies to become an expert in the field.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience in working cross-functionally to implement and manage cross-cutting initiatives.
• Ability to operate successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization.

Nice-to-haves

• FinOps certification will be an advantage
• Good to have: Terraform, Typescripting.