Cloud FinOps / Cost Optimization Specialist

Zoho; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoho is seeking an experienced Cloud FinOps / Cost Optimization Specialist to lead financial governance, unit economics analysis, and cost optimization for our multi-million dollar public cloud infrastructure. You will analyze cloud telemetry, audit wasted resources, and negotiate pricing limits to systematically reduce spends while preserving engineering velocity and performance metrics.

The role requires designing FinOps frameworks across AWS, Azure, and GCP, building cost visibility

Qualifications

• 5–9 years of systems engineering or IT finance experience.
• 3+ years actively designing and governing Cloud FinOps models.
• Strong knowledge of cloud pricing, billing, and data analysis.
• Mandatory FinOps Certification: FCP or FinOps CP.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern Cloud FinOps frameworks across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Analyze cloud billing telemetry and usage trends with optimization tooling.
• Manage RI, Savings Plans, and Spot allocations for discounts.
• Build cost governance alerts and forecasting models.
• Lead cross-functional cloud cost efficiency sprints with DevOps/SRE.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

Cost optimization

Cloud billing

SQL

Athena

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Terraform

Tools

CloudHealth

Vantage

AWS Cost Explorer

Terraform

Job description

• Employment Type: Contract
  
• Work Mode: Remote
  
• Location: Offshore
  
• Total Experience Required: 5 to 9 years
  
• Relevant Experience Required: 3+ years of dedicated Cloud FinOps, cloud cost management, or public cloud financial optimization experience
  
• Mandatory Certification: FinOps Certified Practitioner (FCP) or FinOps Certified Professional
  

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Cloud FinOps / Cost Optimization Specialist to lead the financial governance, unit economics analysis, and cost optimization of our multi-million dollar public cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will analyze cloud consumption telemetry, audit wasted resources, negotiate vendor pricing limits, and systematically reduce public cloud expenditures while maintaining engineering speed and application performance metrics.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and govern Cloud FinOps frameworks across public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP), establishing cost-allocation structures, tagging compliance matrices, and unit economics guardrails.
  
• Analyze complex cloud billing telemetry and usage trends, utilizing advanced optimization tooling to identify idle compute resources, orphaned storage, and unoptimized network pathways.
  
• Orchestrate commitment management lifecycles, strategically sourcing, monitoring, and balancing Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and Spot Instance allocations to maximize discount rates.
  
• Build automated cost governance alerts and forecasting models, writing policy-as-code rules to flag budget anomalies, resource scaling spikes, and environment cost drifts in real time.
  
• Lead cross-functional cloud cost efficiency sprints, collaborating with DevOps and SRE teams to drive infrastructure remediation tasks like rightsizing VMs, tiering cold storage, and configuring auto-scaling thresholds.
  
• Establish multi-tenant cost visibility metrics , constructing custom dashboards (e.g., CloudHealth , Vantage , AWS Cost Explorer ) to show individual product divisions their direct infrastructure financial impact.
  
• Coordinate cloud vendor pricing and enterprise agreement reviews, assembling cloud usage data to support contract negotiations, private pricing agreements, and cloud spending commitments.
  

Requirements

• 5 to 9 years of core systems engineering, IT financial management, or cloud DevOps experience, with at least 3+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and governance structures within Cloud FinOps models.
  
• Strong technical mastery of cloud billing architectures, data analytics query structures (SQL, Athena), infrastructure cost management engines, and cloud resource provisioning patterns.
  
• Deep structural understanding of public cloud computing pricing models, network data transfer costs, distributed infrastructure constraints, and cloud budgeting lifecycles.
  
• Mandatory certification: FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience implementing automated cloud optimization scripts using Python, Bash, or infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) policy gates.
  
• Background working within highly distributed software engineering organizations managing large-scale container (Kubernetes) shared cluster cost allocation models.