Cloud Engineer

Florida Blue Group; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GuideWell is seeking a FinOps Engineer to own cloud cost visibility, allocation, and optimization as GuideWell migrates to the cloud. You will design tagging, build budgets, showback, and forecasting, and drive rightsizing and idle-resource cleanup across AWS and Azure in multi-account environments.

This hands-on role blends cloud infrastructure and financial analysis, partnering with engineering and finance to embed cost checks into provisioning and CI/CD processes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of cloud financial management and cloud engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Analyze cloud spend and detect anomalies to track run rate.
• Execute optimization like rightsizing, storage tiering, and idle cleanup.
• Design and enforce tagging and cost allocation models.
• Build showback reporting, budgets, and forecasting.
• Manage commitment coverage and provide cost input to architecture reviews.
• Set up budgets, forecasting, and anomaly detection; route findings to owners.
• Apply cloud cost knowledge across AWS and Azure billing and RI/Savings Plans.
• Use SQL for cost and usage analysis across multi-cloud environments.

Skills

Cloud cost management

Financial analysis

CI/CD integration

Education

Bachelor's degree or related work experience

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Cost Explorer

Savings Plans

Reserved Instances

Job description

This is a contract opportunity. You will be employed by Magnit to work on assignment with GuideWell and subsidiary companies including Florida Blue.

The FinOps Engineer owns cloud cost visibility, allocation, and optimization across GuideWell's cloud estate as the company migrates to the cloud and builds its cloud financial management practice at the same time. This role designs the tagging and cost allocation model, builds showback and forecasting, manages Savings Plan and Reserved Instance coverage, and drives optimization work such as rightsizing and idle resource cleanup. The engineer partners with engineering teams to build cost efficiency into how workloads are designed and embeds cost checks into provisioning and CI/CD. This is a hands‑on role that combines cloud infrastructure and Terraform technical depth with financial analysis and translates findings for finance and executive audiences.

Position Details/Responsibilities

• Analyze cloud spend, investigate anomalies, and track run rate against business case
• Execute optimization: rightsizing, storage tiering, scheduling, idle resource cleanup
• Design and enforce the tagging and cost allocation model
• Build showback reporting, budgets, and forecasting
• Manage commitment coverage and provide cost input to architecture reviews
• Set up budgets, forecasting, and anomaly detection. Route findings to the accountable owner.
• Identify and execute optimization work such as rightsizing, storage tiering, scheduling, and idle resource cleanup.
• Provide cost input to migration planning and architecture reviews.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS and Azure billing, Cost Explorer, CUR, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances.
• Experience with AWS Organizations/Azure Subscriptions and multi-account environments.
• Demonstrated cloud cost reduction with quantified results.
• SQL for cost and usage analysis.

Required Work Experience

• 4+ years related work experience in cloud financial management, cloud engineering and infrastructure

Required Education

• Related Bachelor's degree or additional related work experience

Preferred Experience

• FinOps Certified Practitioner.
• Familiarity with the FOCUS specification.
• Python or equivalent scripting for automation.
• Enterprise Discount Program, MACC, or Migration Acceleration Program experience.
• Chargeback implementation in a regulated or not-for-profit environment.
• Terraform and CI/CD pipeline experience. Cost management across two or more major cloud platforms
• Third-party FinOps tooling such as Flexera, Cloudability, Harness.

GuideWell and its family of companies has partnered with Magnit as its Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Employer of Record (EOR) since 2018. In May of 2025, GuideWell joined Magnit Direct Source to implement the GuideWell Contractor Cohort. This program is designed to create, manage and curate a contractor talent pool for temporary contract opportunities with GuideWell. As a contractor working on temporary assignment with GuideWell, you'll be employed by Magnit. You'll have the opportunity to work on temporary projects at GuideWell companies that make a real difference in people's lives while enjoying the benefits of being part of the Magnit team.