Cloud FinOps Architect

Smurfit Westrock; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit WestRock is seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer to join our Public Cloud Engineering - Cloud Center of Excellence. You will manage cloud costs, allocate AWS accruals and month-end charges, and partner with IT business units and leaders on cost models and budgets.

The role focuses on implementing FinOps practices, cost optimization, and enabling self-service cloud cost reporting across product teams and engineering groups.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Computer Science or relevant work experience or equivalent military experience.
• 4-8 years overall IT experience.
• 3+ years of Enterprise-level cloud platform experience with Azure or AWS.
• Certifications: AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification (preferred), FinOps Practitioner Certification (preferred), Professional Certification (a plus) or equivalent Azure Certifications

Responsibilities

• Develop, measure, report and maintain KPIs for tracking real time costs, consumption, and metrics for product level visibility.
• Executes deployment of costing templates for delivery of products and services financial requirements.
• Enable product teams and end users to move towards self-service cloud cost reporting.
• Create cloud cost awareness training courses and guidelines for engineering to consume.
• Manage the relationship between IT Business partners and the Cloud Center of Excellence to provide transparency into cloud usage and costs.

Skills

Cloud cost management

FinOps

Budgeting & forecasting

BI dashboards

Cost reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Computer Science or relevant work experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

Power BI

Tableau

Domo

Job description

Smurfit WestRock is seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer to join our Public Cloud Engineering - Cloud Center of Excellence. You will manage cloud costs, allocate AWS accruals and month-end charges, and partner with IT business units and leaders on cost models and budgets.

The role focuses on implementing FinOps practices, cost optimization, and enabling self-service cloud cost reporting across product teams and engineering groups.