Manager - Public Cloud FinOps & Cloud Operations Lead

Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS); Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) in Pune, India, is seeking a Public Cloud FinOps + Cloud Operations Lead with 7-10 years of IT experience to drive financial governance and cloud operations excellence. The role spans FinOps, cost optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP, plus ITIL-aligned operations, incident management, capacity planning, and automation.

You will mentor teams, report to leadership, and champion cost visibility, governance, and scalable cloud architectures

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of IT experience total.
• 3-5+ years in Cloud FinOps and Cloud Operations.
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments preferred.
• Strong hands-on networking (VPC/VNet, Load Balancers, DNS, VPN, Firewalls).
• Experience in Incident & problem management, RCA, capacity & performance management, DR.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities: Rightsizing, Savings Plans, RI/Prising, Spot/Preemptible instances, auto start/stop.
• Design and enforce tagging strategies for cost allocation.
• Manage end-to-end cloud operations (L2/L3) for production environments.
• Lead troubleshooting and RCA for outages and performance issues.
• Support capacity planning and resource utilization optimization.
• Develop FinOps governance policies and drive adoption across units.
• Provide cost insights and reporting to leadership.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

Cloud Cost Mgmt

Cloud Operations

DevOps / SRE

Cost Optimization

Multi-Cloud

Tagging & Governance

Tools

AWS Cost Explorer

Savings Plans

GCP Billing

Azure Cost Management

Apptio Cloudability

CloudHealth

Flexera

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

PowerShell

Job description

Public Cloud FinOps + Cloud Operations Lead (7-10 Years Experience)

Role Overview We are seeking a Cloud FinOps Lead / Manager with strong Cloud Operations expertise to drive financial governance, operational excellence, and cost optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.

This role combines FinOps with Cloud Operations and DevOps/SRE principles to ensure cost-efficient, reliable, and scalable cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
• Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities:
  • Rightsizing compute and storage
  • Reserved Instances / Savings Plans
  • Spot/Preemptible instances
  • Scheduling (auto start/stop)
• Design and enforce tagging strategies for cost allocation
• Drive continuous cost optimization initiatives across engineering teams

2. Cloud Operations & Service Delivery

• Manage end-to-end cloud operations (L2/L3 support) for production environments
• Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of workloads
• Handle incident, problem, and change management (ITIL aligned)
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA) for outages and performance issues
• Support capacity planning and resource utilization optimization

3. FinOps Framework & Governance

• Implement and mature FinOps practices aligned with FinOps Foundation (Inform, Optimize, Operate)
• Define and enforce:
  • Cloud cost governance policies
  • Budget controls and guardrails
  • Approval workflows for resource provisioning
• Establish cost accountability culture across engineering and business teams
• Drive adoption of FinOps across multiple business units

4. Monitoring, Observability & Cost Intelligence

• Implement monitoring and observability solutions:
  • AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite
  • Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar tools
• Correlate infrastructure performance with cost trends
• Configure alerts for:
  • Cost anomalies

5. Automation & DevOps Integration

• Integrate FinOps into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows
• Enable:
  • Auto-scaling
  • Auto-healing
  • Auto-shutdown policies
• Improve operational efficiency through automation and standardization
• Develop and manage cloud budgets and forecasts
• Perform variance analysis (planned vs actual spend)
• Provide insights on cost drivers and optimization opportunities
• Align capacity planning with financial forecasts and business growth
• Support finance teams with cloud cost reporting during planning cycles

7. Security, Compliance & Governance

• Ensure adherence to cloud governance and compliance standards
• Implement guardrails for secure and cost-efficient deployments
• Collaborate with security teams for cost-optimized security architecture
• Conduct audits of cloud usage and spending

8. Stakeholder Management & Leadership

• Collaborate with:
  • Finance and Procurement teams
  • Product and Business stakeholders
• Present cost, performance, and operational insights to leadership
• Mentor and guide junior FinOps/CloudOps team members
• Drive cross-functional alignment on cost and operational efficiency goals

Required Skills & Qualifications

Experience

• 7-10 years of total IT experience
• 3-5+ years in Cloud FinOps / Cloud Cost Management + Cloud Operations
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments preferred
• Cloud Operations Expertise
• Strong hands-on experience in:
  • Networking (VPC/VNet, Load Balancers, DNS, VPN, Firewalls)
• Experience in:
  • Incident & problem management
  • Root cause analysis (RCA)
  • Capacity & performance management
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Deep understanding of FinOps lifecycle (Inform, Optimize, Operate)
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Cost allocation and tagging
• Experience with cost optimization strategies and financial modeling

Technical Skills

• Cost tools:
  • AWS Cost Explorer, Savings Plans
  • GCP Billing tools
• FinOps tools:
  • Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth, Flexera (good to have)
• Monitoring tools:
• Automation:
  • Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Python, PowerShell

Soft Skills

• Strong stakeholder communication and influencing skills
• Ability to translate technical metrics into financial insights
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Leadership and mentoring capabilities

Preferred Certifications

• ITIL Foundation (for operations alignment)

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• % reduction in cloud spend and cost optimization achieved
• Cloud budget vs actual (forecast accuracy)
• SLA/SLO compliance
• Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR)
• % of automated cloud operations tasks
• Adoption rate of FinOps practices across teams