Senior AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Specialist (FinOps)

Talanto; Wrocław; Hybrid; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid by design

Remote within Poland

English classes

Health insurance

Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Talanto is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Specialist to lead cloud cost governance and optimization initiatives across AWS environments. You will partner with engineering, DevOps, architecture, and finance to drive measurable savings without compromising performance.

The role requires deep AWS expertise, FinOps know‑how, and strong stakeholder communication. Remote within Poland with hybrid collaboration options and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS, IT, or Finance.
• 5+ years managing AWS environments and optimizing costs in enterprise settings.
• Strong understanding of AWS pricing, billing, and cost-explorer tools.

Responsibilities

• Analyze AWS spending and identify opportunities to reduce costs while maintaining reliability.
• Develop and implement cloud cost optimization strategies across AWS services.
• Build dashboards and reports for visibility into consumption, trends, and savings.
• Establish cost governance policies, tagging standards, and chargeback/showback models.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and finance to drive measurable cost savings.

Skills

AWS cost optimization

FinOps principles

Terraform

Python/SQL reporting

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / IT

Tools

AWS Cost Explorer

CloudHealth

ProsperOps

Power BI

Job description

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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 offerWe gather like-minded people:Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernizationSupportive team and agile, startup-like cultureHybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within PolandChance to work abroad for up to 60 days annuallyBusiness-driven relocation opportunitiesWe provide growth opportunities:Career development programsThought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programsCertification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)English classesWe cover it all:Stable payParticipation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discountBenefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)Referral bonuses up to $2,000Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and moreCorporate, social and well-being eventsPlease, note:Benefits listed above are available to employees onlyWe are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individuallyWe will reach out to selected candidates exclusively

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