Senior FinOps Analyst: Cloud Cost Optimization & Forecasts

Lifted (an Upwork Company); Colombia; Remote; COP 190,979,000 - 286,469,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to advise engineering and R&D teams on cloud spending, investigate anomalies, and identify actionable optimization opportunities. You will partner with APAC-based teams to align cloud spending with forecasts and measurable business outcomes through cost analysis, education, and proactive engagement.

Enterprise experience is strongly preferred, with remote collaboration across LATAM and the United States.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in FinOps (cloud financial operations).
• Strong expertise in cloud cost management and optimization.
• Proven ability to investigate spending anomalies and produce clear, written root-cause analyses.
• Experience advising and consulting directly with R&D or engineering teams in a partner-facing capacity.
• Experience with cloud cost forecasting, including aligning central forecasts with team-level projections.
• Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring.
• Experience with cost modeling and tracking team investments or projects.
• Proficiency with Jira for documenting investigations and Slack for real-time and asynchronous support.
• Experience maintaining technical documentation or wiki spaces and contributing to recurring reporting, such as Showback.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders and communicate findings effectively.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary contact for engineering teams seeking cloud cost guidance, responding in real time through Slack and other channels.
• Proactively engage with high-spending R&D teams to review monthly cloud spending and identify cost optimization opportunities.
• Understand upcoming engineering roadmap plans and their potential cost implications.
• Capture meeting notes, recommendations, recurring questions, and emerging cost patterns.
• Monitor cloud and AI/LLM spending for anomalies, spikes, and inefficiencies.
• Investigate spending variances and produce written root-cause analyses with optimization recommendations.
• Document investigations in Jira and flag findings for monthly reporting.
• Contribute to monthly forecasting by reconciling forecasts and capturing team plans.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost management

Root-cause analyses

R&D partner advisory

Cost forecasting

LLM cost drivers

Cost modeling

Jira documentation

Slack support

Technical writing

Tools

Jira

Slack

OpenAI/LLM monitoring

Job description

Lifted is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to advise engineering and R&D teams on cloud spending, investigate anomalies, and identify actionable optimization opportunities. You will partner with APAC-based teams to align cloud spending with forecasts and measurable business outcomes through cost analysis, education, and proactive engagement.

Enterprise experience is strongly preferred, with remote collaboration across LATAM and the United States.