Senior FinOps Cloud Cost Optimizer

GFT Technologies SE; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 186,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

GFT Poland is seeking a Senior FinOps Cloud Consultant in Kraków, Poland, to identify and deliver cloud cost optimisation across Azure, AWS, and GCP. You will combine cloud engineering, automation, IaC, and FinOps to reduce costs, improve transparency, and implement governance in a multi-cloud environment.

The role requires hands-on cloud experience, strong cost management skills, and proficiency with IaC and automation tooling.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with two or more public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Strong knowledge of cloud cost management and governance.
• Experience with automation and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 cloud cost policies, guardrails, retention standards, quotas, and budget alerts.
• Run optimisation sessions with platform, application, and engineering teams.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior engineering stakeholders.
• Prepare executive cost reports covering trends, forecasts, savings and risks.
• Create runbooks, controls, and supporting documentation.
• Monitor cost regression and drift, ensure governance and change control.

Skills

Public cloud experience

Cloud cost optimization

Stakeholder communication

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Tools

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Cost Explorer

Job description

GFT Poland is seeking a Senior FinOps Cloud Consultant in Kraków, Poland, to identify and deliver cloud cost optimisation across Azure, AWS, and GCP. You will combine cloud engineering, automation, IaC, and FinOps to reduce costs, improve transparency, and implement governance in a multi-cloud environment.

The role requires hands-on cloud experience, strong cost management skills, and proficiency with IaC and automation tooling.