Cloud Finops Engineer

GXO Logistics, Inc.; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £56,000 per annum

25 days annual leave

Company pension scheme

Private medical & dental insurance

24/7 online GP service

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

High street discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Cashback cards

Savings scheme

Job summary

GXO Logistics, Inc. is seeking a Cloud FinOps Enginee r to optimise cloud spend across Google Cloud, AWS and Azure while ensuring performance and business value.

The role focuses on financial visibility, forecasting and governance, with responsibilities spanning cost control and AI token usage analysis. You will own cloud cost management, lead spend insights, and collaborate with technology and finance teams to drive efficiency and value in GXO’s cloud footprint.

Qualifications

• Experience in FinOps Cloud Engineering with hands-on delivery.
• Strong cloud cost management and budgeting skills.
• Experience producing dashboards and cost reports.
• Cloud platform certifications in GCP, AWS or Azure desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud cost management and financial visibility across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, delivering accurate reporting, forecasting and strategic insights.
• Lead AI expenditure and usage analysis, providing transparency into model, API, token and agent consumption to ensure AI services are cost-effective.
• Champion FinOps best practice through cost allocation, show back and chargeback mechanisms with stakeholders to improve governance.
• Identify trends, risks and opportunities through forecasting, budgeting and anomaly detection to control expenditure.

Skills

Cloud cost management

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Dashboards

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Google Cloud

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Company description

Company description: GXO Logistics Supply Chain Inc. Job description: Do you thrive on optimising cloud environments to maximise value and control costs? Do you enjoy turning complex cloud usage data into actionable insights that drive smarter business decisions? Here at GXO, we're looking for a Cloud FinOps Enginee r to join our team. You'll play a key role in driving cloud financial management, helping to optimise cloud spend while ensuring performance, scalability, and business value. The Cloud FinOps Analyst is responsible for monitoring, analysing, reporting, and helping optimise GXOs cloud consumption costs across Google Cloud, AWS, Azure and AI-enabled services. The role provides visibility of actual spend, forecasts, budget variance, anomalies, key cost drivers and AI token usage. This is a full-time permanent position. Youll be working Monday to Friday, 09:00 till 17:00 with occasional travel to our Northampton or London office. However, some flexibility is required, this is logistics after all!

Pay, benefits and more

• Salary of up to £56,000 per annum
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• a company sponsored pension scheme
• private medical & dental insurance
• a 24/7 online GP service
• life assurance
• a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme
• high street discounts
• a cycle to work scheme
• cashback cards
• a saving scheme

What you'll do on a typical day

• Own cloud cost management and financial visibility across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, delivering accurate reporting, forecasting and strategic insights that help GXO optimise spend while supporting innovation and growth.
• Lead AI expenditure and usage analysis , providing transparency into model, API, token and agent consumption to ensure AI services are delivered cost-effectively and aligned to business value.
• Champion FinOps best practice through effective cost allocation, show back and chargeback mechanisms, partnering with technology and finance stakeholders to improve accountability and cloud financial governance.
• Identify trends, risks and optimisation opportunities through forecasting, budgeting and anomaly detection, helping to control expenditure, improve efficiency and maximise return on cloud and AI investments.

What you need to succeed at GXO

• Strong experience in a FinOps Cloud Engineering role, with strong hands‑on delivery experience
• Experience in cloud cost management, FinOps, technology financial management, cloud operations, data analysis or FP&A
• Experience producing dashboards, monthly cost packs, budget variance analysis, forecasting reports, anomaly analysis and executive summaries.
• Cloud fundamentals or practitioner-level certification in Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft Azure desirable.

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