FinOps Engineer

International SOS; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

International SOS is seeking a FinOps Engineer in Kuala Lumpur to optimize cloud spend across AWS and Azure and lead token management for AI tools. The role bridges Engineering, Finance, and Product to implement cost as a metric and automated governance.

You will build dashboards, enforce tagging, and drive cost governance with FP&A and IT leadership, while monitoring for anomalies and guiding investment decisions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with cloud billing constructs (AWS CUR, Azure Billing APIs).
• Proficient in SQL, Python and BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) for data analysis and reporting.
• Strong understanding of pricing models and discounts for AWS and Azure.
• Ability to translate technical architectures into financial business impacts.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain unified cloud spend dashboards for real-time cost visibility.
• Manage token usage and optimization within AI tools as part of FinOps practice.
• Define tagging taxonomy to attribute costs to products, teams and environments.
• Drive cost savings through commitment-based options and governance.
• Automate waste cleanup and coordinate with Finance for forecasts and variance explanations.
• Configure alerts for cost anomalies and coordinate remediation with DevOps.
• Provide investment advisory based on FinOps insights for IT leadership.

Skills

Cloud billing

SQL

Python

Power BI

Tableau

Cost analysis

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

About the role

The FinOps Engineer is a critical role for an effective and efficient use of our cloud resources and strongly impacts the financial success of our products and services, as well as the cost modelling for future services. We are looking for a data-driven FinOps professional to bridge the gap between our Engineering, Finance, and Product teams. In this role, you will be the primary architect of our cloud economic strategy, ensuring that every dollar spent on AWS and Azure is optimized for business value. That will include token management on our AI tools and products. You will move beyond simple cost-tracking to build a culture of "cost as a metric," implementing automated governance and strategic commitment models.

At International SOS, our mission is to safeguard the global workforce against health and security risks while delivering specialized medical services to our clients. Headquartered in Singapore, we are a high-growth, fast-paced organization. Our culture thrives on entrepreneurship, fuelled by a strong sense of purpose: saving lives and protecting people every day. We empower our staff, fostering an energetic and challenging work environment that encourages individual growth. As part of our global outlook, you’ll collaborate with multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams to tackle significant challenges. We welcome self-driven individuals who aspire to make a meaningful impact.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Multi-Cloud Visibility: Build and maintain unified dashboards using AWS Cost Explorer and Azure Cost Management to provide real-time spend transparency to stakeholders, including but not limited to supporting cost modelling from the Product teams.
• AI Token Management: Build and Maintain the practice for Token management in AI tools as part of the FinOps practice. Allocating, and optimizing token consumption to control costs, enforce budgets, and maximize value from AI usage.
• Cost Allocation & Tagging: Define and enforce a standardized tagging/labelling taxonomy across both platforms to ensure 100% cost attribution to products, teams, and environments.
• Rate Optimization: Manage and continuously improve commitment-based savings (e.g., AWS Savings Plans / Azure Reserved Instances), including coverage analysis, sizing recommendations, renewal strategy, and governance/approvals.
• Waste Elimination: Identify and automate the cleanup of orphaned resources (e.g., unattached EBS volumes, idle Azure SQL databases, and abandoned snapshots).
• Financial Governance: Partner with Finance (FP&A) to produce accurate weekly / monthly cloud forecasts and explain budget variances based on technical roadmaps. Establish a recurring rhythm (reviews, reporting, and action tracking) to drive adoption of optimization recommendations and improve accountability.
• Anomaly Detection: Configure automated alerts to detect and investigate sudden cost spikes, coordinating with DevOps teams for rapid remediation.
• Investment advisory: Advisory based on the FinOps insights on product investments and budget cycles for IT leadership.

Requirements

Required Skills and Knowledge

• Hands-on experience with cloud billing constructs (AWS CUR, Azure Billing APIs) and data analysis tools like SQL, Python, and Power BI/Tableau.
• Deep understanding of pricing models and discount mechanisms for both AWS (EC2, S3, RDS) and Azure (VMs, SQL DB, Storage).
• Understanding of or the ability to learn fast on AI Token Management.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical architectures into financial business impacts for executive leadership.
• Strong affinity with financial modelling and business cases.

Required Qualifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) or FinOps Certified Engineer.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)