Principal Engineer Cloud Platform Economics & Optimization

1001 Syneos Health, LLC; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Principal Engineer for Cloud Platform Economics & Optimization to lead cloud cost optimization across Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI. The role partners with Cloud Engineering, Operations, and Finance to improve cost visibility, enforce tagging, and drive automation to realize savings against enterprise targets.

The position requires advanced FinOps experience, data-driven decision making, and strong communication skills to align engineering and business teams towards

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud cost management across major cloud providers.
• Ability to translate cost telemetry into actionable savings.
• Strong collaboration with engineering, operations, and finance.

Responsibilities

• Translate FinOps policies and telemetry into measurable savings.
• Improve cost visibility through tagging and cost telemetry.
• Embed cost governance into platform and operations processes.
• Drive automation for optimization actions to reduce manual effort.

Skills

Cloud cost management

Cost optimization

FinOps

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Finance

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

OCI

Job description

Principal Engineer Cloud Platform Economics & Optimization

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering-for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture - where you can authentically be yourself.
• Central to this is our purpose - Driven to Deliver - which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work for.

Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

Job Summary The Principal Engineer, Cloud Economics & Optimization drives cloud cost optimization outcomes by translating FinOps policies, telemetry, and insights into measurable savings and sustained cost discipline. This role executes optimization strategies and savings initiatives across Azure, AWS, GCP and OCI partnering closely with Cloud Engineering, Operations, and Finance to improve cost visibility through tagging and cost telemetry, embed cost governance into platform and operational processes, and ensure cost actions are accurate and repeatable. The Principal Engineer tracks, validates, and reports savings realization against enterprise targets and supports MSP execution by strengthening the controls, workflows, and automation that turn cost signals into concrete actions.

Core Responsibilities

• Execute FinOps policies, optimization strategies, and savings initiatives across cloud services, subscriptions/accounts, and products to deliver measurable cost reduction.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering to improve cost telemetry and allocation accuracy (tagging/metadata standards, data quality controls, and consistent cost dimensions).
• Identify optimization opportunities by analyzing cost signals (usage, rates, reservations/savings plans, idle/overprovisioned resources) and translate insights into actionable engineering and operational work.
• Track, validate, and report savings realization against enterprise targets, including baselines, attribution, realized vs. forecast savings, and variance explanations.
• Embed cost governance into platform and operational processes (intake, change, provisioning, architecture patterns), ensuring guardrails drive sustained cost discipline.
• Drive automation for optimization actions (rightsizing workflows, schedule/stop-start, policy-based enforcement, and continuous detection/remediation) to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.
• Support MSP execution by clarifying cost actions, validating implementation accuracy, and ensuring evidence and reporting are audit-ready and consistent.

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience); advanced degree preferred.
• Strong cloud cost management experience across Azure and AWS, including cost allocation, forecasting, optimization levers, and service pricing/consumption drivers.
• Working knowledge of the FinOps framework with an outcome-oriented execution mindset (turning policy and insights into delivered savings and sustained discipline).
• Ability to analyze cost signals and telemetry (usage trends, unit costs, anomalies, commitments, and idle resources) and translate findings into concrete, trackable actions.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams on tagging standards, cost data quality and automation (e.g., policy-based controls and repeatable optimization workflows).
• Comfortable operating cross-engineering, operations finance, and vendor/MSP stakeholders; able to influence priorities using data, standards, and clear reporting.
• Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and control mindset to ensure optimization actions and savings reporting are accurate, repeatable, and audit ready.

Years of experience required

Minimum of 8 years of Cloud Engineering experience

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients. No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment.

Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.

The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Discover what our Syneos Health colleagues already know: work here matters everywhere.

Work alongside the brightest minds in the biopharmaceutical industry taking down walls and removing barriers to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. We are strategic thinkers who actively seek different perspectives, whether across offices or across oceans. Because we solve some of the toughest challenges facing the most prestigious healthcare companies today, you'll gain exposure and be supported with comprehensive resources including emerging technologies, data, science and knowledge sharing.

The diversification and breadth of Syneos Health creates a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities. We’re a growing, global company dedicated to advancing our talent past their initial role. Discover what our 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard, and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career in which you’re guaranteed to: Partner with the most diverse team of experts in the industry. From the top down, our people are inspiring. Everyone has a voice and is encouraged to use it. Work in specialized Syneos Health teams that are therapeutically or functionally aligned for expert collaboration. We assemble clinical teams where everyone, from CRAs to senior management, is skilled in the same therapeutic area or customer teams. With this structure, everyone on your team speaks the same language and can deliver unique insights into the therapeutic environment and patient population. We are partners with purpose. We integrate seamlessly with our customers and do what’s best for their success. Our people provide the brilliant ideas, valuable insights and endless energy that accelerates the impact of life changing therapies worldwide.