Our Opportunity :

We are seeking a highly skilled Multi-Cloud FinOps Staff Engineer to contribute to cloud financial optimization, AI/GenAI cost governance, Kubernetes workload efficiency, MLOps optimization, and enterprise chargeback/show back strategy across Azure, AWS, and GCP environments.

This role combines :

- Cloud architecture

- FinOps governance

- AI/ML platform optimization

- Data engineering

- Financial analytics

- Enterprise budgeting & forecasting

The ideal candidate will drive cloud profitability, tenant-level usage accountability, and intelligent cost optimization for modern AI-powered platforms.

Location : Bangalore

Who Youll Report To : Director - Cloud Engineering

You Will Make an Impact By Being Responsible For :

Technical Advisory :

- Conduct deep-dive architectural reviews of high-spend services to identify inefficiencies.

- Provide specific code-level and infrastructure recommendations, such as refactoring for serverless, right-sizing containerized environments, and optimizing storage tiering logic.

- Advise engineering teams on cost-efficient design patterns during the initial design phase to prevent technical debt in the cloud bill.

- Translate high-level savings targets into actionable technical backlogs.

- Oversee and develop scripts (e.g., Python, Bash) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for automated governance.

- Build and maintain technical guardrails that prevent cost leaks before they occur.

- Automate the detection and remediation of orphaned resources, unoptimized snapshots, or inefficient architectural patterns.

- Translate complex technical optimization successes into business value metrics for Senior Leadership.

- Provide technical feasibility assessments for long-term cloud financial commitments and strategic procurement decisions.

Financial Planning, Reporting, Budgeting & Forecasting :

- Build cloud financial forecasting models.

- Drive : Budget planning, Forecast variance analysis, Margin optimization, Cost anomaly detection, Capacity planning.

- Develop KPI frameworks for : Cost per tenant, Cost per transaction, Cost per AI request, Cost per model training run, Gross margin tracking.

- Partner with Finance and Engineering teams for monthly business reviews.

- Build executive FinOps dashboards and reporting systems.

- Present optimization opportunities to leadership.

- Establish cloud governance standards and compliance controls.

- Enable data-driven decision making through financial analytics.

Kubernetes & Container Cost Optimization :

- Lead Kubernetes FinOps initiatives for enterprise-scale clusters.

- Optimize : Node utilization, Autoscaling policies, Spot/preemptible workloads, Namespace-level cost visibility, GPU allocation, Multi-tenant clusters.

- Implement workload rightsizing strategies using : CPU/memory profiling, Idle resource detection, Bin-packing optimization, Scheduling efficiency.

- Build tenant-level Kubernetes cost attribution and dashboards.

- Tools Exposure : Kubecost, OpenCost, Prometheus/Grafana, AKS/EKS/GKE, Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler.

GenAI & Azure OpenAI Cost Optimization :

- Optimize : Token consumption, Prompt engineering efficiency, Model selection strategies, Context window utilization, Embedding/vector database cost.

- Implement : AI governance, AI usage metering, AI quota management, Cost guardrails, Token forecasting models.

- Analyze AI workload ROI and business value realization.

- Preferred knowledge : Azure OpenAI Service, Vector DBs, RAG, GPU optimization, AI inferencing economics.

Tenant-Level Usage Tracking & Chargeback :

- Design tenant-level metering systems for : API usage, AI token consumption, Kubernetes namespaces, GPU consumption, Storage utilization, Data pipeline execution.

- Build : Showback dashboards, Chargeback engines, Department-level cost transparency.

- Ensure accurate tagging, allocation, and reconciliation mechanisms.

Data/Feature Engineering & Pipeline Optimization :

- Architect scalable and cost-optimized data pipelines.

- Optimize : ETL/ELT workloads, Streaming pipelines, Data lake storage tiers, Data retention policies, Query optimization.

- Implement data observability and cost intelligence frameworks.

- Preferred knowledge : Databricks, BigQuery.

You Will Be a Great Fit If You Have :

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field.

- 7+ years of experience in Cloud engineering, FinOps, or DevOps roles.

- 3+ years in FinOps or cloud financial governance.

- Deep understanding of cloud billing models, pricing structures, and cost optimization strategies.

- Hands-on experience with AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing, and FinOps tools like CloudHealth, etc.

- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Data & Visualization : SQL, Python, Power BI / Tableau / Grafana, Cost analytics dashboards (cloudhealth, Aptio, cloudzero).

- FinOps Certified Practitioner or similar certification is a plus.

- End-to-end understanding of how cloud-based web applications work and their architecture.

- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production.

- Experience with automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.

- Exposure to AI platform economics.

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