GCP Cloud FinOps Engineer: Cost Optimization & Automation

AutoZone, Inc.

Chihuahua

On-site

MXN 600,000 - 900,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

AutoZone is seeking an experienced FinOps Engineer to advance our FinOps practice in a cloud-first environment. The role focuses on optimizing, forecasting, and provisioning FinOps solutions across Google Cloud Platform, Looker, BigQuery, Dataflow, and related primitives.

You will build data pipelines, dashboards, and self-service analytics to provide financial and operational insights for engineering, finance, and leadership while collaborating with product and business stakeholders to drive

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Information Technology, or closely related degree (Required).
Experience in Cloud Cost optimization or similar FinOps role.
Experience in a major public cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
Strong Technical and Financial acumen.
Development experience in one or more of the following: Java, JavaScript (Typescript/NodeJS), Python.
Experience and understanding of serverless and cloud-native technologies including Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, GKE, or similar platforms.
Experience with reporting, data visualization, cloud billing data, and large-scale data analysis.
Familiarity in developing software using Agile processes and the Scrum framework.
Experience in Google Cloud Platform, including cloud native services and pricing models.
Experience with BigQuery, Dataflow, Looker, and other cloud-native data and analytics technologies.
Experience building and maintaining data pipelines, transformations, data models, and large-scale analytical datasets.
General data engineering experience, including SQL, ETL/ELT patterns, data quality, and data integration.
Experience building dashboards, semantic models, and self-service analytics using Looker or similar business intelligence platforms.
Familiarity with Terraform.
Hands on Financial/Accounting experience.
Familiarity with FinOps tooling, cloud billing data, and cost allocation practices.
Experience with cloud cost data, reporting, forecasting, or optimization automation.
Familiarity with FinOps standards such as FOCUS is a plus.

Responsibilities

Contribute, influence, and provide subject matter expertise in the continued evolution of the FinOps Roadmap for AutoZone
Advance and automate Cloud FinOps practices, including optimization, allocation, forecasting, and cost governance
Contribute to IaC and reference architecture with FinOps discipline and rationale
Enhance cloud spend reporting and cost allocation capabilities
Develop and improve cloud spend forecasting
Build and maintain data pipelines and data products supporting FinOps reporting, allocation, forecasting, and optimization
Develop dashboards and self-service analytics that provide actionable financial and operational insights to engineering, finance, and leadership teams
Provide reporting & readouts to executives around cloud spend, usage, optimization, and value
Work cross functionally to identify and execute cloud cost optimization and modernization opportunities
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to achieve cost optimizations across initiatives
Build automation and self-service capabilities that improve how FinOps operates at scale
Apply engineering, data, and AI capabilities to improve FinOps processes and decision making
Work with varying degrees of technical and financial skillsets, such as product engineers and non-technical product owners
Bridge gaps in finance and technology working with business and IT leaders
Work with varying groups from product teams to business leaders to influence strategy, architecture, and cloud usage
Work on a distributed team using chat and collaboration software for primary communications