FinOps Engineer AWS Cost Optimization (Financial Services)

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Greetings for the day,

We have a position as a FinOps Engineer AWS Cost Optimization (Financial Services) role for Remote. Please find the job description below for this position.

Role: FinOps Engineer AWS Cost Optimization (Financial Services)

Location: Remote

Duration: 24 Months

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.

Thanks & Regards

RAJU REDDY |Sr. Team Manager

CIS Technology Inc

Plano, TX 75074

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