Cloud FinOps Engineer

FinOps Weekly; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit WestRock’s Public Cloud Engineering team in Atlanta, GA drives FinOps across cloud accounts, focusing on cost management, accruals, and reporting to IT business partners and units. This role guides governance, cost strategy, and real-time visibility, partnering with Finance, Operations, Procurement, and Engineering.

The Cloud FinOps Engineer matures FinOps practices, builds cost awareness, and develops training, tools, and dashboards to optimize AWS/Azure spend and budgeting processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, a relevant field, or equivalent work experience or military experience
• 4–8 years of overall IT experience
• 3+ years of enterprise cloud platform experience with Azure or AWS
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services, including network and compute
• Knowledge of cloud financial management and machine learning infrastructure, including GPU cost optimization, AI workload expense modeling, and governance
• Experience establishing governance for cloud spend
• Experience with budgeting and forecasting
• Experience monitoring cloud spend
• Experience reporting and tracking cloud spend
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and across multiple internal teams and project managers
• Cloud-agnostic mindset
• Ability to create and deliver data-driven presentations for business stakeholders
• Experience managing cloud discount commitments and related governance, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, sustained use, and committed use discounts
• Ability to monitor cost variability in a multi-cloud environment
• Ability to provide cloud cost insights, metrics, and KPIs to stakeholders
• Experience building BI dashboards for forecasting and unit economics analysis
• Experience with cloud financial management and optimization tools
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Experience with traditional and Agile methodologies

Responsibilities

• Process and allocate cloud accruals and month-end billing charges
• Build cloud cost allocation models for business units and IT partners
• Track and report KPIs for cost, consumption, and product-level visibility
• Implement and maintain tagging strategies for cloud cost accountability
• Support chargeback, showback, and amortization processes for Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
• Maintain budget monitoring and overage controls
• Identify opportunities for cloud cost savings and cost avoidance
• Support cloud cost forecasting and unit economics analysis
• Improve cloud cost governance, transparency, and financial controls
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, Operations, and Engineering on optimization initiatives
• Support cloud cost awareness training and FinOps adoption
• Engage with FinOps Foundation resources and cloud provider financial management programs
• Not specified in the posting

Skills

Cloud cost management

Budgeting & forecasting

Governance & cost controls

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven presentations

Excel advanced

Multi-cloud monitoring

BI dashboards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, a relevant field, or equivalent work experience or military experience

Tools

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost & Usage Report (CUR)

CUDOS

Apptio

Cloudability

Flexera

CloudHealth

Turbonomic

Densify

Power BI

Tableau

Domo

Job description

The Cloud FinOps Engineer will join Smurfit WestRock’s Public Cloud Engineering team within the Cloud Center of Excellence in Atlanta, GA. This role is positioned at the intersection of cloud technology and finance, with responsibility for cloud cost management, allocation, reporting, and governance across Smurfit WestRock’s cloud accounts.

The position is designed to support accurate AWS accrual processing, month-end billing, and usage-based charge allocations to IT business partners and business units. It also serves as a liaison between Finance, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, and cloud consumers, helping translate cloud usage into cost insight, budget support, and optimization opportunities.

A key part of the role is helping mature the company’s FinOps practices by improving visibility, accountability, and cost awareness across distributed teams. The role will also contribute to cloud cost strategy, reporting frameworks, training, and ongoing process improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• – Process and allocate AWS accruals and month-end cloud charges accurately and on time
• – Allocate cloud costs by usage to IT business partners and business units on a monthly basis
• – Develop, track, report, and maintain KPIs for real-time cost, consumption, and product-level visibility
• – Implement costing templates and support financial requirements for products and services
• – Build self-service cloud cost reporting capabilities for product teams and end users
• – Create and maintain a cloud resource tagging strategy to improve accountability for shared services costs
• – Manage multiple priorities and coordinate work across several projects and teams
• – Operationalize FinOps frameworks and support global business processes that encourage cost ownership
• – Build tools to monitor budgets, overages, and amortization for Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
• – Analyze business trends and usage patterns to identify cost savings and cost avoidance opportunities
• – Support cloud cost management strategy development and its continued evolution
• – Work with monitoring tools and custom applications to assess the status and performance of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security
• – Improve processes using a metrics-driven approach
• – Partner with IT business stakeholders, Finance, Operations, Strategic Sourcing, and Engineering on cloud usage transparency and optimization
• – Support cloud contract discussions and other hosting opportunities with Strategic Sourcing and Finance
• – Evaluate and help adopt cost management and optimization tools, frameworks, and processes
• – Recommend cloud optimizations and best practices to improve reliability, performance, and cost
• – Support cloud budget management, analytics, and optimization efforts
• – Collaborate on cost optimization initiatives across compute, network, storage, and cloud-native services
• – Support architecture design reviews and project planning efforts
• – Provide subject matter expertise on forecasting and cloud costing models
• – Create cloud cost standards, procedures, and engineering guidelines
• – Develop and improve design and training documentation
• – Deliver formal cloud cost awareness training
• – Stay current on cloud ecosystem changes, FinOps practices, and cost management innovations
• – Contribute to FinOps Foundation community learning activities
• – Engage with cloud provider financial management resources and cloud economics programs

Required Skills

• – Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, a relevant field, or equivalent work experience or military experience
• – 4–8 years of overall IT experience
• – 3+ years of enterprise cloud platform experience with Azure or AWS
• – Experience with cloud infrastructure and services, including network and compute
• – Knowledge of cloud financial management and machine learning infrastructure, including GPU cost optimization, AI workload expense modeling, and governance
• – Experience establishing governance for cloud spend
• – Experience with budgeting and forecasting
• – Experience monitoring cloud spend
• – Experience reporting and tracking cloud spend
• – Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• – Ability to work independently and across multiple internal teams and project managers
• – Cloud-agnostic mindset
• – Ability to create and deliver data-driven presentations for business stakeholders
• – Experience managing cloud discount commitments and related governance, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, sustained use, and committed use discounts
• – Ability to monitor cost variability in a multi-cloud environment
• – Ability to provide cloud cost insights, metrics, and KPIs to stakeholders
• – Experience building BI dashboards for forecasting and unit economics analysis
• – Experience with cloud financial management and optimization tools
• – Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• – Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• – Experience with traditional and Agile methodologies

Preferred Skills

• – AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification
• – FinOps Practitioner Certification
• – Professional certification
• – Equivalent Azure certifications
• – Active membership in the FinOps Foundation

Cloud Financial Management & Optimization Tools

• – AWS Cost Explorer
• – AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)
• – CUDOS
• – Apptio
• – Cloudability
• – Flexera
• – CloudHealth
• – Turbonomic
• – Densify

Reporting & BI

• – Power BI
• – Domo
• – Tableau

FinOps Responsibilities

• – Process and allocate cloud accruals and month-end billing charges
• – Build cloud cost allocation models for business units and IT partners
• – Track and report KPIs for cost, consumption, and product-level visibility
• – Implement and maintain tagging strategies for cloud cost accountability
• – Support chargeback, showback, and amortization processes for Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
• – Maintain budget monitoring and overage controls
• – Identify opportunities for cloud cost savings and cost avoidance
• – Support cloud cost forecasting and unit economics analysis
• – Improve cloud cost governance, transparency, and financial controls
• – Partner with Finance, Procurement, Operations, and Engineering on optimization initiatives
• – Support cloud cost awareness training and FinOps adoption
• – Engage with FinOps Foundation resources and cloud provider financial management programs
• – Not specified in the posting

Useful Links

• – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4475962408
• – Application: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4475962408

Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers a rare opportunity to help shape FinOps capability in a first-of-its-kind position focused on both cloud technology and finance. It combines hands‑on cloud cost operations with strategy, governance, reporting, and stakeholder engagement across Finance, Procurement, Operations, and Engineering. The scope includes AWS and Azure environments, multi-cloud cost management, and support for budgeting, forecasting, and optimization. It may appeal to candidates who want to build scalable cloud financial management practices in an enterprise setting.