FinOps Engineer

SEEK; Sydney; Hybride; AUD 140 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working (office + work from 2

Annual performance bonus

Work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks a

Casual dress

Résumé du poste

SEEK is seeking a FinOps Engineer to optimise cloud spend, drive governance, and build dashboards that reveal cost trends for engineering and business leadership. You will collaborate with finance, engineering, operations and architecture to improve forecasting, accountability and value realization from cloud investments.

The role focuses on hands-on cost management, data analysis, and automation within a fast-moving, hybrid work environment at SEEK in Australia.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices.
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills for large billing datasets.
• Proficiency in Python or shell scripting for automation.

Responsabilités

• Drive cloud cost optimisation including rightsizing and savings opportunities.
• Develop dashboards and insights on cloud spending and cost trends.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Operations, Finance to align usage with budgets.
• Participate in architecture reviews to ensure cost-efficient solutions.
• Automate FinOps workflows and governance policies.

Connaissances

Cloud cost governance

Python scripting

Data analysis

Communication to leadership

Agile/DevOps familiarity

BI dashboards

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT

Quantitative field degree (data science, statistics, economics)

Outils

AWS Cost Explorer

Azure Cost Management

GCP Billing

BI tools (QuickSight, Looker, Power BI, Tableau)

Description du poste

Company Description

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multi-national technology business that is far-reaching with a start‑up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

Be part of a multi-national tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges for our customers while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere.

We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multi‑lingual systems, solving high‑impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region.

Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences and courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

The team

The Cloud Enablement team’s role is to provide a stable, secure and optimised cloud for all SEEKers, enabling engineering teams to use cloud technology by providing services and prescriptive guidance that promotes agile, autonomous delivery and supports business transformation. The team is split into FinOps and Engineering squads, with this role sitting within the FinOps squad.

About the role

As a FinOps Engineer at SEEK, you will help engineering teams make better cloud cost decisions without slowing delivery. This is a hands‑on technical role focused on optimising costs and strengthening governance to foster a cost‑aware culture.

You will work across Engineering, Platform, Operations, and Finance to improve how we understand, forecast, optimise, and govern cloud spend. You will combine FinOps practices, cloud engineering knowledge, data analysis, and automation to help teams manage spend proactively and maximise the business value of cloud.

Responsibilities

• Drive cloud cost optimisation, including rightsizing, waste reduction, architectural improvements and commitment‑based savings opportunities.
• Develop reporting dashboards and actionable insights on cloud spending, cost trends, optimisation opportunities, and financial performance.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Finance, and other stakeholders to align cloud resource usage with business objectives and budgets.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews to ensure cost‑efficient solutions are implemented early in the development lifecycle.
• Leverage AI tooling and workflows to automate insight generation and drive FinOps at scale.
• Establish, support and automate recurring FinOps governance policies, processes, and best practices.
• Investigate cost anomalies and fix them so they stay fixed.
• Promote a cost‑aware culture at SEEK by delivering FinOps best practice workshops.

Essential skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Finance, or equivalent professional experience.
• AWS, GCP, and/or FinOps certifications.
• Proficiency in scripting or coding languages (e.g. Python, Bash).
• Hands‑on experience with cloud cost management tools and services (e.g. AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing).
• Experience with data analysis tools and building BI dashboards (e.g. Quicksight, Athena, SQL, BigQuery, Looker, Domo, Tableau, etc.).
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and identify cost optimisation opportunities.
• Proven experience in a FinOps role, with an understanding of cloud cost management and corporate accounting processes (e.g. forecasting, invoicing, chargeback, accruals‚ etc.).
• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations to leaders.
• Open‑minded collaborator with a growth mindset and a practical, can‑do approach.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and DevOps practices.

Other skills and experience

• Experience with FinOps for AI and AI for FinOps. Experience managing AI/ML inference costs, API consumption, and token‑based pricing across AI services, and experience with agentic AI solutions to provide automated insights at scale.

Qualifications

Essential skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, computer science, information technology, finance, economics or a related quantitative field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills, with hands‑on experience querying large, granular billing datasets (e.g. Athena, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake).
• Proven experience building BI dashboards and visualisations (e.g. QuickSight, Looker, Power BI, Tableau, Domo) for both engineering and executive audiences.
• Proficiency in Python (or R) for data analysis, statistical modelling, recurring reporting automation and data collection scripting (e.g. Bash).
• Hands‑on experience with cloud cost management tools and data sources (e.g. AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, GCP Billing and BigQuery export, Azure Cost Management) and/or third‑party FinOps platforms (e.g. Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth).
• Practical experience with forecasting, trend analysis and anomaly detection, with the judgement to know when a simple model beats a complex one.
• Rigour about data quality — reconciliation across sources, documented definitions, and healthy scepticism about your own numbers.
• AWS, GCP or FinOps certifications.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and version‑controlled analytics workflows (e.g. Git, dbt, CI for data pipelines).
• Strong analytical, communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to interpret complex data, identify optimisation opportunities, and work effectively across cross‑functional teams.

Other skills and experience

• Experience applying FinOps to AI workloads and using AI to support FinOps.
• Experience managing AI/ML inference costs, API consumption, and token‑based pricing across AI services; tracking cost per token, cost per inference and GPU utilisation; and experience with agentic AI solutions to provide automated insights at scale.
• Experience applying data science to operational or financial data — regression, time‑series forecasting (e.g. ARIMA, Prophet), clustering, and outlier or changepoint detection.
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines and transformation layers (e.g. dbt, Dataflow, Glue, Airflow, Composer).
• Experience modelling unit economics or cost‑per‑transaction in a product, platform or marketplace business.

Additional Information

Perks and benefits

At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role
• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Frequent events including sports days, year‑end party, hackathon, and trivia
• Casual dress every day

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us. Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.