Founding FinOps Engineer

FinOps Weekly; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP equity

Leadership role

Company BBQs

Laptop / headphones / merch

Job summary

FinOps Weekly is seeking a FinOps expert to shape our cloud-economics approach. As a NL startup, you will help develop autonomous AI-enabled cost-control features for cloud engineers and FinOps practitioners to spend smarter. You will own projects end-to-end, collaborating with product to deliver scalable improvements.

You will drive cost optimization, work with the team to ship features, and contribute to a rapidly growing platform that prevents waste and improves efficiency.

Qualifications

• Certified in FinOps or equivalent.
• 4+ years in FinOps/DevOps/cloud engineering.
• Strong cost optimization mindset.
• Experience with autonomous AI or AI ops is a plus.
• Open-source contributions appreciated.

Responsibilities

• Define FinOps approaches and expand platform features.
• Own end-to-end projects: prototyping, testing, shipping, optimization.
• Collaborate with product team to deliver scalable features.
• Help practitioners and engineers reduce cloud costs.

Skills

FinOps expert

Cloud engineering

DevOps

GenAI focus

Cost optimization

Job description

Imagine building something that actually matters. Not another social app or e-commerce platform, but AI that autonomously manages billions in cloud infrastructure while engineers sleep. We're Yasu, and we're tackling one of the biggest problems in tech, cloud waste. It's a billion $ problem that's exploding with GenAI adoption, and we're the first to truly solve it with autonomous AI agents. At Yasu we prevent tomorrow's waste. Our platform doesn't wait for humans to interpret reports. It acts. Automatically. Safely. Successfully.

Tasks

As a FinOps expert at Yasu, you'll help define the core approaches of how we look at FinOps and cloud engineering challenges and join us in expanding our robust platform that power our Multi-Agentic AI core platform. You will collaborate closely with the product team to turn new ideas into seamless, scalable features to help FinOps practitioners and Cloud engineers to achieve more with there money. And prevent cloud costs from sky-rocketing. You'll own projects end-to-end: prototyping, testing, shipping, and optimizing the code that helps our customers get the best posibile experience.

Requirements

• You're a great fit if you You are FinOps (professional) certified.
• You have an extensive background in FinOps / DevOps / Cloud engineering (minimum +4 years).
• Breathes cost optimization efforts in cloud environments with or without FinOps practices and FOCUS.
• Work quickly, efficiently, and with a bias for action Implements changes end-to-end Actively use AI. to enhance productivity, automate where he can.
• Bonus points for Have applied FinOps practices for multiple companies or projects Active contributions to open-source projects / initiatives. Have the certificate `FinOps for AI` (even more is better). Experience in starting a company or working at a early-stage startup Love to record some videos / attend events.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours ESOP equity package Leadership role in a quickly growing startup Company BBQ's! Laptop / headphone / merch.

The Anti-Pitch

• We're not for everyone.
• If you need perfect requirements before starting a task, you'll hate it here
• If you prefer meetings over shipping, we're not a fit
• Only work from 09:00 till 17:00 on the dot.
• Think optimizing cost is boring.
• Never heard of FinOps