Cloud FinOps Engineer

Australia Post; City of Yarra; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent career development opportunities

Supportive team culture

Exposure to high-impact applications

Job summary

A leading logistics organization in Australia is seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer to join a diverse team. The role involves building cloud financial management capabilities, optimising costs across major cloud platforms, and collaborating with both technical and financial stakeholders. Ideal candidates will possess hands-on experience in Cloud FinOps and be skilled in cloud cost analysis. This position offers opportunities for career growth within a supportive and inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in Cloud FinOps with strong engineering or cloud operations background.
• Analytical skills to operate in complex environments and work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable translating data into insights and influencing outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build and mature Australia Post’s cloud financial management capability.
• Monitor, analyse, and optimise cloud spend across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Educate stakeholders on cloud cost drivers and FinOps best practices.

Skills

Cloud FinOps expertise

Experience with GCP, AWS, Azure

Cloud cost analysis and optimisation

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

CloudAbility

AWS billing tools

GCP billing tools

Azure billing tools

Job description

Help us deliver a better tomorrow

We’re looking for a Cloud FinOps Engineer to join our diverse, talented and innovative Digital & Technology team. Together, we’re helping our customers and communities build a better future.

At Australia Post, we design, build and maintain products, services and experiences Australians love and trust — while delivering a sustainable future for our business and the communities we serve. If you’re excited by technology that has real, measurable impact at enterprise scale, this role gives you the opportunity to be part of it.

We’re empowered to deliver for our teams and to delight our customers. We provide an inclusive and supportive environment that nurtures talented people, trusts our teams to deliver their best, and embraces modern ways of working and technology.

What you’ll deliver with us

As our Cloud FinOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building and maturing Australia Post’s cloud financial management capability. You’ll sit at the intersection of engineering, finance and operations, helping application teams understand, optimise and take ownership of their cloud consumption — without compromising performance, security or delivery.

Reporting to the Cloud FinOps Lead within Trusted Technical Services – Cloud & Infrastructure, you’ll work closely with cloud platform teams, application managers, finance business partners and engineering leaders across Australia Post and StarTrack.

You’ll also:

• Monitor, analyse and optimise cloud spend across AWS, GCP and Azure, with a strong focus on GCP workloads
• Partner with application teams to design and implement cost‑efficient architectures, guardrails and optimisation strategies
• Identify savings opportunities through rightsizing, scheduling and resource optimisation, and support teams to implement them
• Develop and uplift FinOps reporting and tooling (including CloudAbility), providing transparency, insight and actionable recommendations
• Educate stakeholders on cloud cost drivers and FinOps best practices, helping build a culture of financial accountability across engineering teams

About you

You’re analytical, curious and comfortable operating in complex environments. You enjoy working with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, translating data into insights and influencing better outcomes. You’re pragmatic, solutions‑focused and motivated by seeing tangible results from your work.

You’re also someone who enjoys building things from the ground up — helping mature practices, shaping new ways of working and bringing people on the journey, rather than enforcing rules from the sidelines

You will also have:

• Hands‑on experience in Cloud FinOps, with a strong engineering or cloud operations background
• Experience working with one or more major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS and/or Azure) in an enterprise environment
• Strong skills in cloud cost analysis, reporting and optimisation, including tools such as CloudAbility or native cloud billing platforms
• The ability to engage confidently with engineers, finance partners and senior stakeholders to influence decision‑making.

How we’ll deliver for you

At Australia Post, we’re proud to be a trusted, inclusive, and forward‑thinking organisation that reflects the communities we serve. Joining our team means being part of a culture built on our core values—Trust, Inclusivity, Empowerment, and Safety—our TIES that bind us together.

• Join an iconic Australian brand and leading logistics organisation with over 200 years of trusted service.
• Excellent career development and long‑term growth opportunities
• The opportunity to build and shape a maturing FinOps capability in one of Australia’s largest and most complex cloud environments
• Exposure to multiple cloud platforms and high‑impact applications, with clear visibility of the financial and technical outcomes you drive
• A supportive, inclusive team culture that values curiosity, collaboration, wellbeing and continuous growth

We’re delivering together

At Australia Post, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate, live and gather as employees.

We believe our business should reflect the diverse communities we operate in and are proud to be an inclusive workplace for people from all walks of life. We encourage applications from people of all ages, genders and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, People with Disability, LGBTQIA+ and Refugees.

We are one of the largest organisations in Australia to successfully achieve Disability Confident Recruiter status. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier‑free recruitment process and workplace for those living with a disability and are committed to reviewing and removing bias in our processes to create a gender‑equitable recruitment experience and workplace. If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact our Diversity & Inclusion team on [e-mail].