Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (FinOps)

GFT Technologies Poland; Kraków; Híbrido; PLN 180.000 - 280.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid work in Kraków

Descripción de la vacante

GFT Technologies Poland is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to identify, quantify, and deliver cloud cost optimisation opportunities across Azure, AWS, and GCP. You will combine cloud engineering, automation, IaC, and FinOps to reduce cloud costs and improve cost transparency in a multi-cloud environment.

You will analyse logging, routing, retention, tiering, and exclusion rules, build automation for cost optimisation, and prepare executive-level reports with clear assumptions.

Formación

• Experience identifying cloud cost optimisation opportunities across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Ability to analyse log ingestion, routing, retention, tiering, and exclusion rules.
• Proficiency with cloud-native tools to identify cost drivers.
• Experience building automation for logging and storage cost optimisation at enterprise scale.
• Familiarity with IaC and automated deployment pipelines.
• Prepare rollback plans and post-change validation.
• Produce savings forecasts and business cases with clear assumptions.
• Define cloud cost policies, guardrails, and budget alerts.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Hands-on with two public cloud platforms; Azure core services, AWS, GCP cost drivers.

Responsabilidades

• Identify cost optimisation opportunities across multi-cloud environments.
• Analyse logging, observability, and storage cost drivers.
• Build automation for logging and storage cost optimisation at scale.
• Implement cost optimisations using IaC and automated pipelines.
• Prepare cost reports, forecasts, and business cases.
• Define governance, guardrails, and budget alerts.
• Collaborate with platform, app, and engineering teams.
• Present findings to senior engineering stakeholders.
• Create runbooks and technical documentation.
• Monitor cost regression and drift detection.

Conocimientos

Cloud cost optimisation

Azure

AWS

GCP

Infrastructure as Code

FinOps

Automation

Python

Bash

Terraform

CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Communication

Herramientas

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Diagnostic Settings

Storage Accounts

Event Hub

Sentinel

Azure Policy

Azure Cost Management

AWS CloudWatch

Cost Explorer

BigQuery

S3 lifecycle policies

Log Router

Billing exports

Descripción del empleo

As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will identify, quantify, and deliver cloud cost optimisation opportunities across Azure, AWS, and GCP. You will combine cloud engineering, automation, Infrastructure as Code, and FinOps practices to reduce cloud costs, improve cost transparency, and implement sustainable governance controls across a multi-cloud environment.

• Identify cloud cost optimisation opportunities across logging, observability, and storage services
• Analyse log ingestion, routing, retention, tiering, sampling, and exclusion rules
• Access and analyse logging data using cloud-native tools to identify key cost drivers
• Build and deploy automation for logging and storage cost optimisation at enterprise scale
• Implement approved optimisation changes using Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment pipelines
• Prepare rollback plans and conduct post-change validation
• Produce optimisation proposals, savings forecasts, and business cases with clear assumptions
• Improve tagging, labelling, allocation, chargeback, and showback models
• Define and maintain cloud cost policies, guardrails, retention standards, quotas, and budget alerts
• Run optimisation sessions with platform, application, and engineering teams
• Present technical findings and recommendations to senior engineering stakeholders
• Prepare executive-level cost reports covering trends, forecasts, actual savings, and risks
• Create runbooks, technical controls, and supporting documentation
• Monitor cost regression and implement automated drift detection
• Ensure implemented changes comply with governance, risk, and change management requirements
• Hands-on experience with at least two public cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Strong knowledge of Azure core services, identity, networking, governance, and cost management
• Good understanding of AWS and GCP cost drivers and pricing mechanisms
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Diagnostic Settings, Storage Accounts, Event Hub, Sentinel, Azure Policy, and Azure Cost Management
• Experience with AWS CloudWatch Logs, S3 lifecycle policies, Cost Explorer, or Cost and Usage Reports
• Experience with GCP Cloud Logging, Log Router, sinks, BigQuery, storage lifecycle policies, or billing exports
• Strong understanding of logging and observability architecture
• Knowledge of log ingestion, routing, retention policies, and storage cost drivers
• Experience analysing logging data at scale and identifying measurable cost reduction opportunities
• Experience building and deploying automation using Python, Bash, or Terraform
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, policy as code, and repeatable deployment patterns
• Practical understanding of FinOps principles, cost allocation, chargeback, showback, optimisation levers, and cost governance
• Experience producing savings forecasts, business cases, and structured optimisation proposals
• Understanding of cloud governance, compliance, operational risk, and change control frameworks
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to present technical analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders

Nice to have

• AWS certification
• Experience working in a financial institution

We offer

• Hybrid work in our client's office (Kraków) 6 days a month
• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
• Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical, sport, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)