Staff FinOps Engineer/ Platform Impact

Motion Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a senior engineering professional to establish and evolve its engineering cost management capability. You will shape a FinOps practice, driving cost visibility and governance across Platform Engineering and Finance.

The role blends deep infrastructure expertise with financial insight to enable scalable cloud spend optimization and data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on engineering experience in cloud and platform environments with a focus on FinOps.
• Experience driving FinOps adoption, cost accountability, and cost-conscious engineering.
• Ability to build solutions for cost visibility including automation and data models.

Responsibilities

• Define and mature a FinOps capability across Platform Engineering, Finance and Procurement.
• Develop systems, automation, and governance for cost attribution and budgeting.
• Partner with engineering teams to embed cost-management in day-to-day work.

Skills

Platform Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud Engineering

FinOps

Cost management

Automation

Telemetry

Cost attribution

Tools

CloudZero

CloudHealth

Apptio

Job description

An innovative, cloud-first technology organization is seeking a senior engineering professional to establish and evolve its engineering cost management capability. This is a highly influential individual contributor opportunity where you'll combine deep infrastructure expertise with financial insight to create the technical foundations that enable engineering teams to understand, manage, and optimize cloud and platform spending at scale.

Rather than joining an existing FinOps practice, you'll be instrumental in shaping one. Working across Platform Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and technical leadership, you'll develop the systems, automation, and governance needed to transform engineering spend into meaningful operational data. This position is ideal for someone with a strong technical background who has previously played a significant role in introducing, driving, or maturing FinOps practices within an engineering organization—not simply consuming existing reporting, but helping define how engineering cost management operates.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Engineering, with expert-level knowledge of AWS or another large-scale public cloud environment.
• Demonstrated experience acting as a key contributor, technical champion, or founding voice in the adoption and implementation of FinOps practices, including influencing engineering teams, establishing cost accountability, and embedding cost-conscious engineering principles into day-to-day operations.
• Proven ability to build technical solutions that improve financial visibility across engineering environments, including automation, telemetry, tagging strategies, reporting, cost attribution, and scalable data models that support engineering and business decision-making.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience designing service costing methodologies such as showback, chargeback, unit economics, or cost allocation frameworks for shared engineering platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud financial management platforms including CloudZero, CloudHealth, Apptio, or comparable FinOps tooling.
• Experience partnering with Finance and Procurement on forecasting, software and infrastructure vendor analysis, commercial optimization, capacity planning, and governance of engineering-controlled technology investments.

Daily Responsibilities

• Hands-On Engineering: 65%
• Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 35%

You Will Receive The Following Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Vacation Time

Current Vacancy: Yes

Use of AI in Hiring: No

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Posted By: Adrian Cronk