Senior FinOps Engineer

FinOps Weekly; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities in a fast‑

Collaborative and innovative work env.

Cutting-edge cloud technologies

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development support and认证

Job summary

FinOps Weekly in Lisbon is seeking a Senior FinOps Engineer to lead cloud cost optimization across the technology stack. You will partner with finance, engineering, and business teams to embed FinOps practices and improve cost visibility.

You will build forecasting models, budgets, dashboards, and showback/chargeback processes, while mentoring teams and promoting cost-conscious architectures. Flexible work arrangements are available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering.
• At least 3 years focused on cloud financial management (FinOps).
• Strong knowledge of major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Understanding of cloud pricing models.
• Experience with FinOps tools and data visualization.
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex topics to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and ongoing improvement of FinOps practices across the organization.
• Develop cost allocation strategies, tagging policies, and showback/chargeback processes.
• Build and maintain cloud cost forecasts and budgets.
• Analyze cloud resource usage to identify optimization opportunities.
• Create dashboards and reports that improve visibility into cloud spend.
• Work with engineering teams to support cost-aware architecture and cost controls.
• Partner with finance teams to incorporate cloud costs into financial planning.
• Automate FinOps processes where possible.
• Stay current on cloud pricing models and optimization approaches.
• Educate and mentor teams on FinOps principles and cloud cost management.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure engineering

FinOps / cloud financial management

Data analysis and visualization

Communication skills

Infrastructure as code

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Python

Bash

PowerShell

PowerBI

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

Job description

We are seeking a Senior FinOps Engineer to join a growing FinOps organization and help improve cloud cost management across the technology environment. The role focuses on optimizing cloud spend, strengthening financial accountability, and embedding FinOps best practices into day-to-day operations.

In this position, you will work across finance, engineering, and business stakeholders to promote cost awareness and align cloud usage with business value. You will contribute to forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and cost optimization efforts while helping teams adopt more cost-conscious ways of designing and running infrastructure.

A key part of the role is building scalable FinOps processes, improving visibility into cloud spending, and supporting better decision-making through data-driven analysis. You will also help educate and mentor teams on FinOps principles and cloud cost management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and ongoing improvement of FinOps practices across the organization
• Develop cost allocation strategies, tagging policies, and showback/chargeback processes
• Build and maintain cloud cost forecasts and budgets
• Analyze cloud resource usage to identify optimization opportunities
• Create dashboards and reports that improve visibility into cloud spend
• Work with engineering teams to support cost-aware architecture and cost controls
• Partner with finance teams to incorporate cloud costs into financial planning
• Automate FinOps processes where possible
• Stay current on cloud pricing models and optimization approaches
• Educate and mentor teams on FinOps principles and cloud cost management

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering
• At least 3 years of experience focused on cloud financial management or FinOps
• Strong knowledge of major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Understanding of cloud pricing models
• Experience with FinOps tools
• Strong data analysis and visualization skills
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code
• Experience with cost allocation methodologies and chargeback models
• Solid understanding of financial concepts as they apply to technology investments
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical and financial topics to varied audiences

Preferred Skills

• FinOps Foundation certification, specifically FinOps Certified Practitioner
• Certification in at least one cloud platform
• Experience with AI/ML for FinOps, including cost optimization, anomaly detection, and forecasting

FinOps Platforms

• FinOps tools

Programming Languages

• Python
• Bash
• PowerShell

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform
• CloudFormation

CI/CD

• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• GitLab CI

Monitoring / Reporting / BI

• PowerBI

Databases

• SQL databases
• NoSQL databases

FinOps Responsibilities

• Implement and improve FinOps practices across the organization
• Design and maintain cost allocation, tagging, showback, and chargeback processes
• Build cloud cost forecasting models and budgets
• Identify opportunities to reduce cloud spend through usage analysis
• Develop dashboards and reports for cloud spend visibility
• Support cost controls in collaboration with engineering teams
• Work with finance to incorporate cloud costs into financial planning
• Automate FinOps workflows where possible
• Help teams understand and apply FinOps principles

• Career growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving field
• Collaborative and innovative work environment
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development support and certification reimbursement

Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to work at the intersection of cloud engineering, finance, and business planning. It is well suited to someone who enjoys using data and technical expertise to improve cost visibility and drive more accountable cloud spending. The position also includes collaboration with both engineering and finance teams, along with opportunities to build scalable FinOps processes. Professional development support and certification reimbursement are also part of the package.