Cloud Finops Engineer

GXO Logistics, Inc.; Northampton; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Private medical & dental insurance

GP service

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

MyBenefits platform

Cycle to work

Job summary

GXO Logistics, Inc. is hiring a Cloud FinOps Engineer to optimise cloud spend across Google Cloud, AWS, Azure and AI services. You will own cloud cost management, provide forecasting and insights to drive value, and collaborate with tech and finance for governance.

This full-time role in the UK involves standard hours 09:00–17:00, with occasional travel to Northampton or London offices. You will analyse AI expenditure, model consumption, and help maximise return on cloud and AI investments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of FinOps/Cloud engineering experience.
• Experience producing dashboards, cost packs, budget variance analyses and executive summaries.
• Experience in cloud cost management, FP&A and cloud operations.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud cost management and financial visibility across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud with accurate reporting and forecasting.
• Lead AI expenditure and usage analysis for cost-effective model, API, token and agent consumption.
• Champion FinOps governance with cost allocation, show back and chargeback, collaborating with tech and finance stakeholders.
• Identify trends, risks and opportunities to optimise cloud and AI investments.

Skills

FinOps

Data analysis

Dashboards

Forecasting

Education

Cloud certifications preferred

Tools

Google Cloud

AWS

Azure

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 GXO’s 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. You’ll 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:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £56,000 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes, a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

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.

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.