AWS FinOps cloud engineer

Remote • Posted 3 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago
Contract W2
12 Months
Remote
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Skills

  • AWS FINOPS ENGINEER
  • CLOUD FINOPS ENGINEER
  • FINOPS ENGINEER
  • AWS CLOUD ENGINEER
  • CLOUD ENGINEER
  • AWS DEVOPS ENGINEER
  • AWS
  • AMAZON WEB SERVICES
  • FINOPS
  • CLOUD COST OPTIMIZATION
  • CLOUD COST MANAGEMENT
  • CLOUD FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
  • COST OPTIMIZATION
  • APPTIO
  • CLOUDABILITY
  • AWS COST EXPLORER
  • CUR
  • COST AND USAGE REPORTS
  • BUDGETS
  • COST ANOMALY DETECTION
  • POWER BI
  • QUICKSIGHT
  • EXCEL
  • SQL
  • TERRAFORM
  • ANSIBLE
  • PYTHON
  • EC2
  • S3
  • IAM
  • LAMBDA
  • EKS
  • VPC

Summary

Company Description
Lumen SolutionsGroupInc. is a technology consulting Servicescompany based inFlorida. Weprovidea wide array of experienced business and IT professionals supporting clients from solution design to implementation and support.We specialize in professional IT consulting services, IT Staffing, Business/IT Strategy, Business Process Blueprints, Enterprise Architecture, and EnterpriseTransformation.

Role:AWS FinOps cloud engineer
Location:Washington DC (Remote)
Job Type:Contract

Job Summary:
We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Platform / FinOps Engineer to lead cloud transformation initiatives, optimize cloud financial operations, and enhance platform reliability through SRE and DevOps best practices. This role requires strong expertise in AWS cloud engineering, FinOps, cloud governance, automation, and cost optimization.

  • Minimum of 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Platform engineering.
  • Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives
  • 2+ years cloud cost optimization / FinOps / cloudfinancial management.
  • Experience with SRE principles and transformation
  • Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment)leveragingPython.
  • Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)
  • Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to Ous, tagging, IAM concepts, VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
  • Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
  • Minimum of One AWS certification isrequired.
  • A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.
    Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.
Must have experience with:
  • IBM Apptio/ ApptioCloudabilityor similar cloud cost tools.
  • AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, Cost and Usage Reports, Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection.
  • Power BI,QuickSight, Excel, SQL, or other dashboard/reporting tools.
  • FOCUS / FinOps Open Cost and Usage SpecificationAwareness.
  • Data normalization across providers and tools.
  • Define and enforce tagging standards.
  • Map cloud costs to tech stack, product, portfolio, application, environment, and account ownership.
  • Partner with engineering teams to correct missing or inconsistent metadata.
  • Support policies for account creation, ownership, cost accountability, and reporting accuracy.
  • Build cloud cost visibility, reporting, dashboards, and executive summaries across cloud services.
  • Analyze cost drivers, usage patterns, budget variance, forecasts, and optimization opportunities.
  • Supportshowback/ chargeback, cost allocation, tagging accuracy, andbusiness-unitaccountability.
  • Identifywaste such as idle resources, oversized instances, orphaned storage, unattached IPs, unused commitments, and non-optimized storage tiers.
  • Run anomaly detection and response processes for unexpected cost spikes.

Lumen SolutionsGroup Inc is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any legally protected status.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 10483685
  • Position Id: 26-00649
  • Posted 3 hours ago
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