Senior FinOps Analyst - Cloud Cost & AI Insights

UNAVAILABLE; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

At Atlassian, a Senior FinOps Analyst role focuses on cost efficiency across AWS and GCP, partnering with engineering teams to optimize usage and pricing. You will design dashboards, provide actionable insights, and mentor junior analysts while working with senior leaders to drive cost-aware decisions.

The role emphasizes education, collaboration, and applying AI tooling to accelerate analyses, with a strong emphasis on accuracy and strategic impact across Atlassian's cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a technical business analyst, data analyst or FinOps analyst.
• Demonstrated SQL or Python skills with complex data sources.
• Good understanding of cloud technology, consumption and billing.
• Experience turning data into recommendations for engineering or finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own cost and usage insights for teams and domains, identifying optimization opportunities and making evidence-backed recommendations.
• Collaborate with engineering to secure rate optimization commitments and discuss pricing with vendors.
• Lead cost efficiency discussions with engineering and finance teams.
• Support cost allocation and attribution and map spend to services and teams.
• Design data models, reports and dashboards to show costs and opportunities to multiple stakeholders.
• Set standards for querying data and build models that adapt to data changes.
• Use AI tooling to speed up analysis and improve cost insights.
• Validate cost savings including trade-offs.
• Plan and deliver training for engineers and improve team documentation.
• Work with a fast-growing FinOps team and share visibility with senior leaders.

Skills

SQL

Python

Cost optimization

Data storytelling

Cloud billing

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Databricks

BigQuery

Tableau

AWS

GCP

Job description

At Atlassian, a Senior FinOps Analyst role focuses on cost efficiency across AWS and GCP, partnering with engineering teams to optimize usage and pricing. You will design dashboards, provide actionable insights, and mentor junior analysts while working with senior leaders to drive cost-aware decisions.

The role emphasizes education, collaboration, and applying AI tooling to accelerate analyses, with a strong emphasis on accuracy and strategic impact across Atlassian's cloud environments.