FinOps Engineer - Remote Cost & Cloud Finance Leader

Smart Communications group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

Income protection

Life assurance

Gym membership

Pension contribution

Cycle to work

Childcare vouchers

25 days holiday

Birthday day off

Zusammenfassung

Smart Communications in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced FinOps Engineer to own end-to-end cost visibility and financial accountability across cloud and colocation infrastructure. This pivotal role bridges engineering, finance, and business leadership.

You will build dashboards, models, and reporting frameworks to show true cost-to-serve per customer, feature, and region, helping the board make strategic infrastructure decisions while safeguarding margins across the product

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years in FinOps, Cloud Financial Management, or Infrastructure Finance roles.
• Strong AWS cost management expertise with Cost Explorer, CUR, budgets, and Savings Plans.
• Experience across multi-cloud or hybrid environments (AWS/Azure/GCP) and colocation.
• Understanding of rack space pricing, power/cooling, and facility contracts.
• Proven ability to build executive dashboards and cost models for leadership.
• Financial modelling skills: unit economics, margin analysis, and showback/chargeback.
• Ability to translate cost data into commercial insights for the board.
• Stakeholder management experience with Finance, Engineering, Product, and C-suite.

Aufgaben

• Build executive dashboards and board-ready reports covering infrastructure spend, cost trends, margins, and unit economics
• Develop showback/chargeback models and lead regular cost reviews with Engineering, Product, and Finance stakeholders
• Manage, optimise, and attribute AWS, multi-cloud, and colocation costs using relevant tooling, tagging, and account structures
• Consolidate cloud and colocation cost data into a unified financial model covering usage, facilities, connectivity, and hardware lifecycle
• Identify and drive optimisation opportunities across rightsizing, reserved capacity, workload placement, and vendor spend
• Model TCO, build-vs-buy, and cloud-vs-colocation decisions while forecasting spend and highlighting budget variances
• Translate infrastructure cost data into clear commercial insights for Finance, Engineering, Product, and senior leadership
• Partner on budgeting, forecasting, margin analysis, and cost-aware development practices, presenting recommendations to leadership and the board

Kenntnisse

FinOps experience

AWS cost management

Multi-cloud / hybrid cloud

Colocation cost understanding

Dashboard & visualization

Financial modelling

Business acumen

Stakeholder management

Tagging & governance

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

QuickSight

Grafana

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Jobbeschreibung

Smart Communications in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced FinOps Engineer to own end-to-end cost visibility and financial accountability across cloud and colocation infrastructure. This pivotal role bridges engineering, finance, and business leadership.

You will build dashboards, models, and reporting frameworks to show true cost-to-serve per customer, feature, and region, helping the board make strategic infrastructure decisions while safeguarding margins across the product