Cloud FinOps / Cost Optimization Specialist

Zoho; United States; Remote; USD 6,900 - 12,000; Part time

Job summary

Fyerx is seeking an experienced Cloud FinOps / Cost Optimization Specialist to lead financial governance and unit economics for a multi-million dollar public cloud infra. You will analyze cloud telemetry, audit waste, negotiate pricing limits, and systematically reduce expenditures without impacting performance.

The role requires 5–9 years in related fields and FinOps certification; remote contract work with international scope.

Qualifications

• 5 to 9 years of core systems engineering, IT financial management, or cloud DevOps experience.
• 3+ dedicated years actively designing governance structures within Cloud FinOps models.
• Strong technical mastery of cloud billing architectures, data analytics (SQL, Athena), and cost management engines.
• Mandatory certification: FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern Cloud FinOps frameworks across AWS, Azure, and GCP, establishing cost-allocation structures and unit economics guardrails.
• Analyze cloud billing telemetry and usage trends to identify idle resources and unoptimized pathways.
• Orchestrate commitment management lifecycles with Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances for discounts.
• Build automated cost governance alerts and forecasting models with policy-as-code rules.
• Lead cross-functional cloud cost efficiency sprints with DevOps/SRE teams for remediation tasks.
• Establish multi-tenant cost visibility dashboards (CloudHealth, Vantage, AWS Cost Explorer).
• Coordinate cloud vendor pricing and enterprise agreement reviews for negotiations.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

Cost optimization

SQL

Athena

Policy as code

Python

Bash

Terraform

Kubernetes

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.