Cloud FinOps / Cost Optimization Specialist

This is a remote position.

• Employment Type: Contract
  
• Work Mode: Remote
  
• Location: Offshore
  
• Total Experience Required: 5 to 9 years
  
• Relevant Experience Required: 3+ years of dedicated Cloud FinOps, cloud cost management, or public cloud financial optimization experience
  
• Mandatory Certification: FinOps Certified Practitioner (FCP) or FinOps Certified Professional
  

• Design and govern Cloud FinOps frameworks across public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP), establishing cost-allocation structures, tagging compliance matrices, and unit economics guardrails.
  
• Analyze complex cloud billing telemetry and usage trends, utilizing advanced optimization tooling to identify idle compute resources, orphaned storage, and unoptimized network pathways.
  
• Orchestrate commitment management lifecycles, strategically sourcing, monitoring, and balancing Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and Spot Instance allocations to maximize discount rates.
  
• Build automated cost governance alerts and forecasting models, writing policy-as-code rules to flag budget anomalies, resource scaling spikes, and environment cost drifts in real time.
  
• Lead cross-functional cloud cost efficiency sprints, collaborating with DevOps and SRE teams to drive infrastructure remediation tasks like rightsizing VMs, tiering cold storage, and configuring auto-scaling thresholds.
  
• Establish multi-tenant cost visibility metrics, constructing custom dashboards (e.g., CloudHealth, Vantage, AWS Cost Explorer) to show individual product divisions their direct infrastructure financial impact.
  
• Coordinate cloud vendor pricing and enterprise agreement reviews, assembling cloud usage data to support contract negotiations, private pricing agreements, and cloud spending commitments.
  

Requirements

• 5 to 9 years of core systems engineering, IT financial management, or cloud DevOps experience, with at least 3+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and governance structures within Cloud FinOps models.
  
• Strong technical mastery of cloud billing architectures, data analytics query structures (SQL, Athena), infrastructure cost management engines, and cloud resource provisioning patterns.
  
• Deep structural understanding of public cloud computing pricing models, network data transfer costs, distributed infrastructure constraints, and cloud budgeting lifecycles.
  
• Mandatory certification: FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional.
  

• Prior experience implementing automated cloud optimization scripts using Python, Bash, or infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) policy gates.
  
• Background working within highly distributed software engineering organizations managing large-scale container (Kubernetes) shared cluster cost allocation models.