Cloud FinOps Analyst

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

– Monitor and analyze AWS cloud spend across accounts, services, environments, and business units to identify major cost drivers.

– Identify and drive cost optimization opportunities across services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, CloudFront, and other AWS workloads.

– Recommend and track optimization initiatives such as rightsizing, storage optimization, resource cleanup, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and waste reduction.

– Analyze AWS usage patterns and translate cost data into actionable recommendations for Engineering and DevOps teams.

– Develop and maintain cost dashboards and reports using AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, AWS Billing Console, and AWS Cost & Usage Reports (CUR).

– Establish and maintain cost allocation, chargeback/showback, tagging, and cost-center mapping practices.

– Drive monthly and quarterly cloud cost reviews with Engineering, Product, Finance, and business stakeholders.

– Prepare cloud spending forecasts, budget plans, variance analysis, and cost trend reports.

– Work with AWS CUR data to develop custom reports, queries, dashboards, and cost analysis models.

– Automate recurring FinOps reporting and analysis using Python, SQL, Athena, Glue, Lambda, or similar AWS services.

– Integrate AWS cost and usage data with BI platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or Amazon QuickSight.

– Evaluate and manage cloud cost management platforms such as CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, Flexera, or Harness.

– Support AWS purchasing and renewal activities, including Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) discussions.

– Partner with Engineering and Architecture teams to provide guidance on cost-efficient AWS architecture and workload design.

– Analyze and support AWS serverless workloads, including Lambda event mappings, Step Functions, and event-driven integrations, from a cost, reliability, and operational perspective.

– Support troubleshooting and operational analysis of SES event-driven processing, DLQs, API retry mechanisms, and related AWS integrations where they impact cost, reliability, or production operations.

– Contribute to schema-drift validation, remediation, and production support activities related to cloud data and cost-management workflows.

– Provide knowledge transfer and support L3 production activities for FinOps and AWS cost-management solutions.

– Establish and promote FinOps best practices, governance standards, and continuous improvement across AWS environments.

Requirements:

– 5 – 10 years of experience in Cloud FinOps, cloud cost management, cloud operations, financial analysis, or a related technology domain.

– Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS pricing models, billing constructs, and cost optimization practices.

– Strong understanding of Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot pricing, Enterprise Discount Programs (EDP), and AWS purchasing models.

– Hands-on experience with AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, AWS Cost & Usage Reports (CUR), and AWS Billing Console.

– Experience analyzing AWS costs across multiple accounts, services, environments, and business units.

– Strong understanding of cost allocation, tagging strategies, chargeback/showback, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

– Experience with cloud cost management platforms such as CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, Flexera, or Harness.

– Strong Excel skills and experience with Power BI, Tableau, or Amazon QuickSight.

– Working knowledge of SQL and Python for cost analysis and automation.

– Experience working with AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, and Step Functions.

– Understanding of AWS serverless and event-driven architectures, including Lambda, SES, DLQs, and API integrations.

– Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to convert cost data into practical business and engineering recommendations.

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