Cloud FinOps Engineer: Cost Optimization & Automation

HireTalent - Staffing & Recruiting Firm; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HireTalent - Staffing & Recruiting Firm seeks a highly technical FinOps Engineer to optimize, automate, and scale cloud financial operations in McLean, Virginia.

You will design cost monitoring, build data pipelines, and develop dashboards using AWS QuickSight to drive cost efficiency across our cloud environments. Collaborate with engineering and finance to implement best practices, rightsize resources, and ensure governance and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 3-6+ years in cloud engineering, DevOps, FinOps, or similar.
• Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Cost Explorer, CUR.
• Experience building dashboards using AWS QuickSight.
• Proficiency in Python/Java and SQL for data processing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud cost monitoring and optimization solutions.
• Develop automated pipelines to ingest and analyze cloud billing data.
• Create dashboards and reports using AWS QuickSight for cost insights.
• Partner with engineering to implement cost-efficient architectures and best practices.
• Identify automated cost optimization strategies and tagging frameworks.
• Integrate cost data into internal systems and workflows.
• Support forecasting, anomaly detection, and cost governance through tooling.
• Continuously improve tooling, observability, and reporting for FinOps.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field

Tools

AWS

AWS QuickSight

CUR

ETL Pipelines

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

HireTalent - Staffing & Recruiting Firm seeks a highly technical FinOps Engineer to optimize, automate, and scale cloud financial operations in McLean, Virginia.

You will design cost monitoring, build data pipelines, and develop dashboards using AWS QuickSight to drive cost efficiency across our cloud environments. Collaborate with engineering and finance to implement best practices, rightsize resources, and ensure governance and reporting.