Senior FinOps Analyst ID94366

AgileEngine, LLC.; Rio de Janeiro; Hybrid; BRL 452,000 - 602,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive pay

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to advise engineering teams on cloud costs and optimization, with a schedule that covers APAC business hours and overlaps with PST and afternoon CST.

You will serve as the primary partner for R&D, monitor spend, investigate anomalies, produce root-cause analyses, and contribute to monthly forecasts, showback, and cost-education efforts. Strong communication and Jira/Slack fluency are required.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of FinOps experience.
• Strong cloud cost management and optimization expertise.
• Investigate spend anomalies and provide root-cause analyses.
• Partner with R&D/engineering teams as a consultant.
• Forecast cloud costs with team projections.
• Familiar with AI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring spend.
• Cost modeling and team investment tracking.
• Proficient with Jira for investigations and Slack for support.
• Maintain docs/wiki and recurring reports (Showback).
• Strong written and verbal stakeholder communication.
• Availability to cover APAC hours with PST and CST overlap.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact for R&D teams seeking cloud cost guidance via Slack and other channels.
• Engage APAC-based colleagues to review monthly cloud spend and surface opportunities.
• Monitor cloud/AI spend for anomalies; document root-cause analyses in Jira and deliver optimization recommendations.
• Participate in monthly forecasting with assigned R&D teams and document notes.
• Contribute to showback reporting with AI/LLM cost driver insights.
• Support Cost Awareness and Cost Education; update the wiki space.
• Model team cost projections and respond to requests via Slack and email.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost mgmt

Root-cause analysis

R&D partner

Forecasting

AI cost drivers

Cost modeling

Jira

Slack

Documentation

Stakeholder comms

APAC hours

Tools

Jira

Slack

Job description

AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards.

WHY JOIN US

If you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you!

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior FinOps Analyst to advise engineering teams on cloud costs and optimization. This role requires a schedule that covers APAC business hours (evening/night shift in LATAM/US), including a necessary overlap with PST and afternoon CST.

MUST HAVES

• 4+ years of experience in FinOps.
• Strong cloud cost management and optimization expertise.
• Proven ability to investigate spend anomalies and produce written root-cause analyses.
• Experience serving as a partner-facing resource, advising and consulting directly with R&D/engineering teams.
• Cloud cost forecasting experience, including aligning central forecasts with team-level projections.
• Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring LLM spend.
• Cost modeling and team investment/project tracking.
• Proficiency with Jira for documenting investigations and Slack for real-time, asynchronous support.
• Experience in maintaining technical documentation/wiki spaces and contributing to recurring reporting, such as Showback.
• Strong written and verbal communication for stakeholder engagement and reporting.
• Availability to cover APAC business hours with necessary PST and afternoon CST overlap.

NICE TO HAVES

• AI/LLM governance expertise.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Serve as the primary point of contact for R&D teams seeking cloud cost guidance, triaging and answering inbound questions in real time via the team's Slack channel and other asynchronous channels.
• Conduct proactive, consultative engagement with key spending teams, especially APAC-based colleagues — to review monthly cloud spending, surface actionable cost opportunities, and understand upcoming engineering roadmap delivery plans before they become budget surprises; capture meeting notes and summaries with recommendations on top recurring questions and emerging cost patterns.
• Proactively monitor cloud and AI/LLM spend for anomalies, cost spikes, and inefficiency patterns; conduct structured investigations into flagged variances, produce written root-cause analyses, and deliver actionable optimization recommendations to team owners, documenting the work on Jira tickets and flagging items for the monthly reporting.
• Participate in the monthly forecasting cycle, engaging directly with assigned R&D teams to align central forecasts with team-level projections, surface discrepancies, and document team plans and intent for upcoming spend; produce monthly forecast engagement notes per assigned team cohort.
• Contribute a FinOps practitioner perspective and team-sourced information, including AI/LLM cost drivers, to showback reporting and top spending R&D team meetings, maintaining an understanding of cost drivers.
• Support Cost Awareness and Cost Education efforts, and audit and update the relevant space on the wiki.
• Model team cost projections and respond to customer help requests via Slack, email, and other channels.

PERKS AND BENEFITS

• Professional growth: Mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.
• Competitive compensation: USD-based pay with education, fitness, and team activity budgets.
• Exciting projects: Modern solutions with Fortune 500 and top product companies.
• Flextime: Flexible schedule with remote and office options.