Staff Cloud FinOps professional

FinOps Weekly; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

FinOps Weekly in Bengaluru invites a Staff Cloud FinOps Professional to lead cloud financial management initiatives. You will work across AWS, Azure, GCP and multi‑cloud environments, bridging technical usage with financial analysis to drive governance and optimization.

As a senior FinOps practitioner, you will build scalable processes, dashboards, and cost controls, partner with cross‑functional teams, and mentor engineers to promote cloud cost awareness throughout the organization.

Qualifications

• 6-12 years in cloud infra, FinOps, DevOps or related fields.
• Strong understanding of cloud cost structures across major platforms.
• Hands-on with FinOps and cost optimization practices.
• Strong analytical ability to interpret cloud billing and usage data.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting and reporting for cloud costs.
• Understanding of cloud architecture and resource consumption patterns.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead FinOps implementation and ongoing improvement across AWS, Azure, GCP, and multi-cloud.
• Analyze cloud usage, billing, and spend patterns to identify optimization opportunities.
• Develop cost optimization strategies across compute, storage, databases, networking, containers, and managed services.
• Establish governance policies, budgets, forecasts, and spending controls.
• Build dashboards and reporting to track cloud spend, usage trends, and cost outcomes.
• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Finance, Procurement, and Product teams to embed FinOps practices.
• Drive rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, and workload optimization.
• Define and monitor FinOps metrics and cost allocation models.
• Investigate anomalies and advise leadership on optimization opportunities.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

Cost optimization

Cloud cost

Dashboards & reporting

Stakeholder management

Multi-cloud cost

Kubernetes cost

IaC usage

Job description

Staff Cloud FinOps Professional Bengaluru | Full-time | Mid-Senior level | 6+ years

About the Role

This role supports cloud financial management in a software development environment, with a focus on improving efficiency across large-scale cloud usage. The position exists to strengthen FinOps practices, reduce cloud waste, and help the business make better decisions about cloud spend without affecting performance, scalability, security, or reliability. The role works closely with Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Finance, Procurement, Product, and senior leadership. It requires someone who can connect technical cloud usage with financial analysis and translate that into practical actions and reporting. The main objective is to build scalable FinOps processes, improve visibility into cloud costs, and create stronger governance around cloud consumption, allocation, and optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead FinOps implementation and ongoing improvement across AWS, Azure, GCP, and multi-cloud environments.
• Analyze cloud usage, billing, and spend patterns to identify optimization opportunities.
• Develop and apply cost optimization strategies across compute, storage, databases, networking, containers, Kubernetes, and managed cloud services.
• Establish governance policies, budgets, forecasts, and spending controls.
• Build dashboards and reporting to track cloud spend, usage trends, unit economics, and optimization outcomes.
• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Finance, Procurement, and Product teams to embed FinOps practices into daily operations.
• Drive rightsizing, resource scheduling, reserved capacity, savings plans, commitment management, workload optimization, and resource lifecycle management.
• Define and monitor FinOps metrics such as spend, forecast variance, utilization, savings, unit cost, and cost avoidance.
• Set up tagging, allocation, chargeback, and showback models to improve cost ownership.
• Investigate anomalies and unexpected cost increases with technical teams.
• Advise senior leadership on cloud financial performance and longer-term optimization opportunities.
• Mentor engineers and FinOps practitioners and promote cloud cost awareness across the organization.

Required Skills

• 6-12 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud financial management, FinOps, DevOps, SRE, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of cloud cost structures and pricing models across major cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud FinOps, FinOps, and cost optimization practices.
• Strong analytical ability to interpret cloud billing and usage data.
• Experience with cloud cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure utilization, and resource consumption patterns.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work across technical and business teams.

Preferred Skills

• FinOps certification or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with FinOps tools and cloud-native cost management platforms.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and container cost optimization.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and cloud governance frameworks.
• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud cost management.
• Knowledge of chargeback, showback, unit economics, and cloud cost allocation models.
• Experience implementing automated cost controls and optimization workflows.
• Familiarity with FinOps Framework principles and cloud financial operations best practices.

Cloud Platforms & Technologies

Cloud Providers

• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Multi-cloud
• Hybrid-cloud

FinOps Platforms

• FinOps tools
• Cloud-native cost management platforms
• FinOps Framework principles
• Cloud governance frameworks

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Infrastructure as Code
• Automation

Containers & Kubernetes

• Containers
• Kubernetes

Cloud Services

• Compute
• Storage
• Databases
• Networking
• Managed cloud services

FinOps Responsibilities

• Build and evolve FinOps practices across cloud environments.
• Create cloud cost governance policies, budgets, forecasts, and controls.
• Improve visibility into cloud spend through dashboards and reporting.
• Identify and execute optimization opportunities across cloud services and workloads.
• Drive rightsizing, scheduling, reserved capacity, savings plans, and commitment management.
• Track spend, forecast variance, utilization, savings, unit cost, and cost avoidance.
• Implement tagging, allocation, chargeback, and showback models.
• Investigate anomalous spend and coordinate fixes with technical teams.
• Provide leadership with recommendations on cloud financial performance and optimization strategy.

Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to shape FinOps practices across large-scale cloud environments and work closely with both technical and business teams. It combines cloud architecture awareness with financial analysis, governance, and reporting. The position also includes ownership of optimization initiatives, cost accountability models, and executive-level recommendations. It may appeal to someone who wants to influence cloud spend and build sustainable FinOps processes.