Senior AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Specialist (FinOps)

EPAM Systems; Poland; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 15% 

Relocation opportunities

English language and professional upsk

Multisport card

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Specialist to lead cost efficiency initiatives across AWS, driving FinOps governance and actionable savings while preserving performance, security, and reliability. This role partners with engineering, DevOps, architecture, and finance teams to embed cost optimization in design and delivery.

The successful candidate will analyze usage, identify opportunities, implement governance controls, and build visibility through dashboards and

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience managing AWS environments and optimizing costs in enterprise settings.
• Understanding of AWS pricing models and billing.
• Proficiency with AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and CUR, plus Cost Anomaly Detection.

Responsibilities

• Analyze AWS cloud spending and identify opportunities to reduce costs while maintaining operational excellence.
• Develop and implement cloud cost optimization strategies across compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services.
• Build dashboards and reports to provide visibility into cloud consumption, trends, forecasting, and savings opportunities.
• Establish cloud cost governance policies, tagging standards, and chargeback/showback models.
• Optimize EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFront, and other AWS services for cost and performance.
• Evaluate and recommend Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances where appropriate.
• Identify and eliminate idle, underutilized, or orphaned cloud resources.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to incorporate cost optimization into solution architecture and application design.
• Partner with DevOps teams to automate cost optimization using Infrastructure as Code and policy enforcement.
• Monitor cloud budgets, cost anomalies, and utilization trends using AWS native and third‑party tools.
• Present cost optimization recommendations, savings opportunities, and executive reports to technical and business stakeholders.
• Promote FinOps best practices across engineering teams.

Skills

Cloud Cost Optimization

AWS

FinOps

Stakeholder Management

Data Analysis

English Proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering/Finance

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Budgets

Cost and Usage Reports (CUR)

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Specialist for our customer to lead initiatives that improve cloud cost efficiency, financial governance, and resource optimization across the AWS environment. This role combines deep AWS technical expertise with FinOps best practices to help engineering teams maximize business value while minimizing unnecessary cloud spend. The ideal candidate has hands‑on experience analyzing AWS usage, identifying optimization opportunities, implementing governance controls, and partnering with engineering, DevOps, architecture, and finance teams to drive measurable cost savings without compromising application performance, security, or reliability.

Responsibilities

• Analyze AWS cloud spending and identify opportunities to reduce costs while maintaining operational excellence
• Develop and implement cloud cost optimization strategies across compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services
• Build dashboards and reports to provide visibility into cloud consumption, trends, forecasting, and savings opportunities
• Establish cloud cost governance policies, tagging standards, and chargeback/showback models
• Optimize EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFront, and other AWS services for cost and performance
• Evaluate and recommend Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and Spot Instances where appropriate
• Identify and eliminate idle, underutilized, or orphaned cloud resources
• Collaborate with engineering teams to incorporate cost optimization into solution architecture and application design
• Partner with DevOps teams to automate cost optimization using Infrastructure as Code and policy enforcement
• Monitor cloud budgets, cost anomalies, and utilization trends using AWS native and third‑party tools
• Present cost optimization recommendations, savings opportunities, and executive reports to technical and business stakeholders
• Promote FinOps best practices across engineering teams

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience managing AWS cloud environments and optimizing costs in enterprise settings
• Understanding of AWS pricing models and billing
• Proficiency in AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), along with Cost Anomaly Detection
• Knowledge of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and storage lifecycle optimization
• Skills in Terraform or CloudFormation
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret large datasets and identify optimization opportunities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher

Nice to have

• Background in implementing FinOps frameworks and cloud financial management practices
• Familiarity with CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, Flexera, or ProsperOps
• Experience with AWS Organizations and multi‑account governance
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) cost optimization and serverless architecture optimization
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, QuickSight, Power BI, or Tableau for reporting and automation
• Experience working in Agile environments
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) or FinOps Certified Professional

We offer

• We gather like-minded people:
  • Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization
  • Supportive team and agile, startup‑like culture
  • Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland
  • Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
  • Business‑driven relocation opportunities
• We provide growth opportunities:
  • Career development programs
  • Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well‑being programs
  • Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
  • English classes
• We cover it all:
  • Stable pay
  • Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
  • Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
  • Referral bonuses up to $2,000
  • Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and more
  • Corporate, social and well‑being events
• Please, note:
  • Benefits listed above are available to employees only
  • We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually
  • We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively

EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI‑Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.