FinOps Engineer

FinOps Weekly; Medellín; A distancia; COP 366.740.000 - 500.100.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Annual bonus

Health insurance

Life assurance

Pension contribution

25 days holiday + birthday day off

Remote work flexibility

Covent Garden office with beverages

Descripción de la vacante

Smart Communications is seeking an experienced FinOps Engineer to sharpen financial accountability across a hybrid infrastructure (AWS, multi-cloud, and colocation). Build dashboards, allocation models, and reporting to reveal cost-to-serve by customer, feature, and region for strategic decision-making.

You will partner with Finance, Engineering, and Product teams to translate cost data into actionable insights, supporting healthy product margins and informed infrastructure investments.

Formación

• Minimum of 3 years in FinOps, Cloud Financial Management, or Infrastructure Finance.
• Proficiency in AWS cost management tools (Cost Explorer, CUR, Budgets, Savings Plans).
• Experience across AWS, Azure, GCP and colocation environments.
• Understanding of rack space pricing, power and cooling costs, and hardware depreciation.
• Ability to build executive dashboards using visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Grafana.
• Experience in financial modeling, including unit economics and margin analysis.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to communicate technical cost data to board-level stakeholders.
• Proven track record of stakeholder management and presenting to C-suite and cross-functional teams.

Responsabilidades

• Drive cloud cost optimization and allocation strategies.
• Conduct financial reporting and KPI reporting for cloud investments.
• Manage budget and forecasting processes related to cloud spend.
• Implement a tagging strategy for cost governance.

Conocimientos

FinOps

Cost management

Stakeholder management

Data visualization

Financial modeling

Executive communication

Multi-cloud experience

Herramientas

AWS Cost Tools

Tableau/Power BI/Grafana

CloudHealth/nOps

Multi-cloud (Azure, GCP)

Descripción del empleo

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced FinOps Engineer to play a crucial role in enhancing operational excellence across our hybrid infrastructure spanning AWS, multi-cloud, and colocation environments. This position is essential for achieving greater visibility, accountability, and optimization of our infrastructure expenditure. You will build the necessary dashboards, allocation models, and reporting frameworks to provide insights into our cost-to-serve per customer, feature, and region. Your work will enable informed strategic decisions from our leadership team and help maintain healthy product margins. Collaboration will be key, as you will partner with Finance, Engineering, and Product teams to translate financial data into actionable insights. The role directly impacts our decision-making process regarding infrastructure investments and supports the overall mission of Smart Communications to deliver seamless and secure customer experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop executive dashboards and board-ready reports to track infrastructure spend, cost trends, margins, and unit economics.
• Create showback and chargeback models; conduct regular cost reviews with Engineering, Product, and Finance teams.
• Optimize and manage AWS, multi-cloud, and colocation costs utilizing appropriate tooling, tagging, and account structures.
• Consolidate cloud and colocation financial data into a unified model encompassing usage, facilities, connectivity, and hardware lifecycle.
• Identify and implement cost optimization opportunities, including rightsizing, reserved capacity, and vendor management.
• Model Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and analyze budget variances while forecasting future expenditures.
• Present clear commercial insights derived from infrastructure cost data to Finance, Engineering, and senior leadership.

Required Skills

• Minimum of 3 years in FinOps, Cloud Financial Management, or Infrastructure Finance roles.
• Proficiency in AWS cost management tools such as Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), AWS Budgets, and Savings Plans.
• Experience managing costs across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and colocation environments.
• Understanding of colocation cost factors including rack space pricing, power and cooling costs, and hardware depreciation.
• Ability to build executive dashboards using visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Grafana.
• Experience in financial modeling, including unit economics and margin analysis.
• Strong business acumen with a capability to communicate technical cost data to board-level stakeholders.
• Proven track record of stakeholder management and experience presenting to C-suite and cross-functional teams.

Preferred Skills

• FinOps and AWS certifications, such as FOCP, Cloud Practitioner, or Solutions Architect.
• SaaS/ISV experience with multi-tenant cost allocation and hybrid infrastructure.
• Familiarity with ITFM/TBM frameworks, ITSM/CMDB tools, and asset lifecycle management.
• Experience with FinOps tools like CloudHealth or nOps.
• Knowledge of cost attribution related to EKS/Kubernetes and data center migration.

FinOps Responsibilities

• Drive cloud cost optimization and allocation strategies.
• Conduct financial reporting and KPI reporting for cloud investments.
• Manage budget and forecasting processes related to cloud spend.
• Implement a tagging strategy for cost governance.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, commensurate with experience, with an annual performance-related bonus.
• Comprehensive health insurance and income protection.
• Life assurance and subsidized gym membership.
• Leisure travel insurance and pension contribution.
• Childcare vouchers and 25 days of holiday plus an additional day off for your birthday.
• Remote work flexibility with occasional office visits required.
• Comfortable office located in Covent Garden stocked with complimentary beverages and fresh fruit.

Useful Links

Company Website: https://smartcommunications.com

Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of financial accountability and operational excellence within a dynamic company. As a key member of the FinOps team, you will influence strategic decisions and provide critical insights that drive financial performance. The position blends technical expertise with business acumen, making it ideal for professionals who want to make a tangible impact in a fast-paced environment.