Cloud FinOps Engineer

FinOps Weekly; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus tied to sustainability

B Corp culture and equal opportunities

Job summary

FinOps Weekly in Utrecht, Netherlands, is seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer to optimize cloud value, analyze usage, and build data‑driven budgeting models. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and finance to drive cost efficiency and financial transparency. The role focuses on dashboards, alerts, and forecasting to support business decisions.

The position offers a collaborative environment, a clear FinOps framework, and opportunities to influence cloud strategies across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience applying FinOps principles to cloud cost management.
• Ability to analyze cloud usage and translate data into actionable insights.
• Experience building dashboards and budgeting models.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and optimize cloud usage and costs to improve resource efficiency.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and tools to empower product teams to manage budgets.
• Create financial strategies and forecasts to align spending with business goals.
• Promote FinOps best practices and cost-awareness across teams.
• Manage cloud purchasing strategies to maximize savings.

Skills

FinOps Principles

Cloud Cost Analysis

Data Visualization

Forecasting

Unit Economics

Cross-functional Collaboration

Tools

BigQuery

Looker Studio

Python

TypeScript

MUI

Backstage

Job description

How do you make our customers happy? As part of the Cloud FinOps team, you help the organization get the most value out of its cloud investments. You analyze cloud usage and spending, identify opportunities for improvement, and translate data into insights that help teams make better decisions. You build and maintain tools, data pipelines, dashboards, and budgeting models that provide clear visibility into cloud usage and financial impact. This enables teams and managers to understand how their architectural and product decisions translate into cloud consumption and business value. By applying FinOps principles, you work across engineering, product, and finance to improve transparency, accountability, and collaboration. You help teams adopt a value-driven cloud mindset in which cost, performance, and business outcomes are considered together. Through analyses such as unit economics, forecasting, and trend monitoring, you support teams in making informed trade-offs and ensuring the long‑term financial sustainability and scalability of bol.'s cloud environment. The biggest challenge With our move to the cloud, product teams have taken on significantly more responsibility for the infrastructure they run. This includes understanding and managing the financial impact of their cloud usage. One of the key challenges is ensuring that cloud value and financial awareness remain part of everyday engineering decisions, even when teams are focused on delivering product features and reliability. The Cloud FinOps team helps the organization maintain this focus. The challenge is not just providing visibility into cloud usage and spend but embedding a FinOps mindset across teams—so that engineers, product managers, and leadership continuously make informed trade‑offs between cost, performance, and business value.

What are our products?

Our team delivers and maintains solutions built on powerful technologies to manage cloud costs and enable insights. Using BigQuery, we combine exported Cloud Billing data with cross‑charging mechanisms and team‑based enrichment to create datasets that support dashboards and Python‑based alerting systems in Looker Studio. And we streamline the budget distribution process by using BigQuery to generate insights and dashboards that help teams monitor and adjust their financial allocations effectively. Additionally, we collaborate with other teams to publish our insights and tooling on bol.'s central developers' portal, which is built on 'Backstage' (MUI, TypeScript). Our goal is to transform cloud cost management into a shared responsibility and a driver of measurable business value.

What You’ll Do

As a Cloud FinOps Engineer As a member of the Cloud FinOps team, you’ll take the lead in optimizing bol.'s cloud operations for efficiency and cost‑effectiveness. You’ll:

• Analyze and Optimize: Provide actionable insights into cloud usage and costs, identifying opportunities to improve resource efficiency.
• Enable Teams: Develop dashboards, alerts, and tools to empower product teams to manage their cloud budgets effectively.
• Drive Strategy: Create financial strategies, such as unit economics and cost forecasts, to align cloud spending with business goals.
• Implement Best Practices: Advocate for FinOps practices across teams to foster a culture of cost awareness and accountability.
• Optimize Commitments: Manage and optimize cloud purchasing strategies, such as CUDs, to maximize savings.

Your efforts will ensure our cloud infrastructure is cost‑efficient, transparent, and aligned with business goals through the FinOps framework.

Who is on the team?

You’ll be joining a team of five people. You will work closely with three Cloud FinOps engineers, one product manager, and one engineering manager. People on the team have been here at bol. for years and have worked in Platform Engineering and DevOps for quite some time.

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

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• You Like Clear Guidance: You thrive on well‑defined tasks and appreciate a bit of handholding. Taking risks or figuring things out on your own isn't your preferred style.
• You’re a Problem‑Solver, not an Analyst Analytical work isn’t your strength. Diving deep into data isn’t something you find easy or enjoyable.
• You Value Structure and Support: You excel in environments where you can follow a structured process and prefer clear directions to ensure success.
• You’re a Strategic Thinker: You excel at connecting the dots between technical details and business goals, turning cloud cost insights into impactful strategies.
• You Enjoy Building Tools: You find it rewarding and exciting to create dashboards, notebooks, alerts, and automation tools to empower teams.
• You’re Passionate About Cloud Innovation: You love staying at the frontier of cloud technologies and applying your knowledge to drive financial sustainability and innovation.

This is where you’ll work

At one of the best‑known online retail tech platforms in the Netherlands and Belgium. A platform where 13.5 million customers can choose from over ~38 million articles. A platform that helps roughly 50,000 commercial partners run their businesses. And a platform that will never be ‘finished’ because bol has been reinventing retail since 1999, and we will always be. If there’s a better way to do something, we’re working on it! Together with our customers, partners, and over 2,800 colleagues. We take pride in our B Corp certification and strive for continuous improvement every day. Our annual bonus is tied to sustainability goals, and we are committed to equality and equal opportunities for all.