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 Youll 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 :

- Bachelors or Masterss 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.