Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer: Cost Visibility & Automation

Magnet Forensics; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous time off policies

Competitive compensation

Volunteer opportunities

Reward and recognition programs

Employee committees & resource groups

Healthcare and retirement benefits

Job summary

Magnet Forensics seeks a Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer to join the Shared Services Engineering team. You will enable cloud and AI cost visibility across AWS, Azure, and AI environments, and build tooling to give engineering and finance teams clear data for smart decisions.

This engineering-first role emphasizes automation, concrete recommendations, and measurable business impact, with strong autonomy and responsibility.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in cloud cost management, FinOps, or cloud platform engineering with cost focus.
• Hands-on with AWS cost and billing, Cost Explorer, CUR, and tagging-driven allocation.
• Azure cost management experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with AI cost concepts and cloud infra cost modelling.
• Builds tooling to automate finance/analytic workflows beyond dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud cost visibility across AWS and Azure with tagging hygiene and cost tooling.
• Identify and drive cost savings measures.
• Automate bill reconciliation and payment workflows.
• Enhance budget forecasting with high accuracy and low overhead.
• Develop unit economics pipelines and dashboards showing cost-per-unit.
• Make recommendations for Savings Plans and Reserved Instances; track savings.
• Monitor for cost anomalies and drive remediation with engineering teams.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost management

AWS Cost & Billing

Azure cost management

AI cost concepts

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Cost allocation tooling

Cost optimization

Communication across technical/finance

Continuous improvement

Tools

Finout

Apptio Cloudability

CloudHealth

Job description

Magnet Forensics seeks a Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer to join the Shared Services Engineering team. You will enable cloud and AI cost visibility across AWS, Azure, and AI environments, and build tooling to give engineering and finance teams clear data for smart decisions.

This engineering-first role emphasizes automation, concrete recommendations, and measurable business impact, with strong autonomy and responsibility.