Porto FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimizer

Decskill; Porto; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Decskill is seeking a Cloud Financial Management Specialist in Porto to analyze, optimize, and report on cloud and AI service spending. You will drive FinOps initiatives, develop cost forecasts, and partner with engineering, finance, and product teams to implement cost controls and governance across AWS environments.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with cloud cost management, and fluency in English, with opportunities to work in a global context and contribute to savings

Qualifications

• Professional experience in Cloud Financial Management, FinOps, DevFinOps, Cloud Cost Optimization, or a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of cloud services cost management and optimization.
• Experience with cloud pricing models, discounts, and cost optimization strategies.
• Knowledge of FinOps principles and methodologies.
• Experience with cost attribution, cost showback, forecasting, and amortization.
• Experience identifying cloud cost drivers and optimization opportunities.
• Rightsizing and cloud resource optimization.
• Experience with cloud financial reporting and monitoring.
• Experience developing financial models and cost projections.
• Knowledge of ROI analysis and scenario modelling.
• Experience working with AWS cloud environments.
• Savings Plans and rate optimization.
• Integrating FinOps practices into engineering and delivery processes.
• DevFinOps and Policy-as-Code concepts.
• Experience in Agile environments.
• Fluent English is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and monitor cloud and AI service spending across products and services.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities and provide insights for strategic decisions.
• Analyze cloud spending in relation to business value, product outcomes, and operational needs.
• Monitor daily cloud costs and spending trends.
• Prepare and present weekly and monthly cost reports.
• Ensure transparency and visibility of cloud costs through reporting and cost attribution.
• Develop and implement hands-on cloud cost and resource optimization initiatives.
• Rightsize, waste management, rate optimization, discounts, and Savings Plans.
• Track progress and success of cost optimization initiatives.
• Support operational and product teams with FinOps controls and guardrails.
• Collaborate on FinOps and DevFinOps practices across cloud environments.
• Conduct business analysis to identify cloud cost drivers and optimization opportunities.
• Develop financial models for cost forecasting and projections.
• Perform ROI-focused scenario analyses for cloud initiatives.
• Collaborate with business, finance, infrastructure, cloud, and engineering teams.
• Improve tools and processes and integrate financial and technical data flows.
• Contribute to Policy-as-Code and FinOps practices in delivery pipelines.
• Communicate insights and recommendations to stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

FinOps

DevFinOps

Cloud cost optimization

Cloud cost reporting

English fluency

Agile environments

Tools

AWS

Python

SQL

Excel

Snowflake

Jupyter Notebooks

AWS QuickSight

Job description

Decskill is seeking a Cloud Financial Management Specialist in Porto to analyze, optimize, and report on cloud and AI service spending. You will drive FinOps initiatives, develop cost forecasts, and partner with engineering, finance, and product teams to implement cost controls and governance across AWS environments.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with cloud cost management, and fluency in English, with opportunities to work in a global context and contribute to savings