Cloud FinOps Engineer

Inetum; Lisbon (IA); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid on-site (2 days/week)

Job summary

Inetum in Lisbon is seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer to implement and operate the FinOps model, ensuring data integration, quality and availability for cloud cost and usage. You will connect applications to cloud resources to improve cost traceability, enable cost allocation, monitoring and optimization, and automate FinOps processes with APIs and IaC.

The profile requires 5+ years in cloud engineering and hands-on experience with FinOps platforms, tagging, budgets, dashboards, and cross-cloud

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Cloud Engineering or FinOps roles.
• Certified Cloud admin/architecture or equivalent.
• Experience with FinOps platforms: data ingestion, tagging, budgets, dashboards.
• Solid knowledge of public clouds and multicloud architectures.
• Ability to map applications to costs and interpret usage patterns.
• Experience with IaC, scripting, automation and API integration.

Responsibilities

• Configure and administer FinOps platforms.
• Integrate cloud accounts and data sources for quality.
• Map apps/workloads to resources for cost traceability.
• Implement tagging taxonomies and cost allocation rules.
• Configure budgets, alerts, views and technical dashboards.
• Monitor tagging compliance and identify unclassified resources.
• Support technical analysis of rightsizing, idle or unused resources, reserved capacity and consumption commitments.
• Correlate consumption changes and optimization recommendations with application architecture, usage, performance and criticality.
• Automate FinOps processes via APIs and IaC.
• Implement technical requirements defined by FinOps functional roles and work with FinOps, Cloud and Application teams to turn recommendations into measurable technical actions.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

Cost management

Automation & API integration

Education

Cloud administration certification

Tools

FinOps platforms

APIs

Job description

As a Cloud FinOps Engineer, you will implement and operate the technical capabilities supporting the FinOps model, ensuring the integration, quality and availability of cloud cost and usage data.

You will connect applications and workloads with the underlying cloud resources and services to improve cost traceability, understand consumption patterns and financial impact, and enable cost allocation, monitoring, reporting and optimization.

Main Responsibilities

• Configure and administer Cloud Financial Management / FinOps platforms.
• Integrate cloud accounts, subscriptions and data sources, ensuring information consistency and quality.
• Map applications and workloads to underlying cloud resources and services to support cost and consumption traceability.
• Implement tagging taxonomies, business dimensions, mapping rules and technical cost allocation mechanisms.
• Configure budgets, alerts, views and technical dashboards.
• Monitor tagging compliance and identify unclassified resources.
• Support technical analysis of rightsizing, idle or unused resources, reserved capacity and consumption commitments.
• Correlate consumption changes and optimization recommendations with application architecture, usage, performance and criticality.
• Automate FinOps processes and integrations using APIs, scripting and Infrastructure as Code.
• Implement technical requirements defined by FinOps functional roles and work with FinOps, Cloud and Application teams to turn recommendations into measurable technical actions.

Profile

• At least 5 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Cloud Financial Management, FinOps Engineering or equivalent roles.
• Cloud administration or architecture certification, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Financial Management / FinOps platforms, including cost and usage data ingestion and processing, tagging and allocation models, budgets, alerts, dashboards, reporting and cloud data-source integration.
• Solid technical knowledge of public cloud environments, multicloud architectures and application workloads.
• Ability to interpret application architectures and technical dependencies and relate usage patterns to associated costs.
• Knowledge of compute, containers, databases, storage, network, PaaS/serverless and observability from a consumption and optimization perspective.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, scripting, automation and API integration.
• Knowledge of cloud billing and usage data integration, transformation and validation.

About Inetum

Inetum is a European leader supporting organizations as they navigate continuous technological change.

With deep industry expertise, a strong innovation culture, and a scalable international model, we help clients transform their operations and generate sustainable impact across business and society.

Guided by European values, we empower local businesses to create positive impact and unlock society’s full potential. This vision drives us to deliver on our promises, attract the best talent, and turn uncertainty into opportunity, building a future where technology unleashes the possibilities within us all.

Additional Information

• Lisbon, Portugal. Hybrid, 2 days per week on-site.

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