Cloud FinOps Engineer: Cost Visibility & Automation

SEI; Oaks (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid holidays

PTO

Parental leave

Back-up childcare

Education assistance

Commuter benefits

Job summary

SEI is seeking a FinOps Engineer to improve cost transparency, automation, accountability, and optimization across cloud and data platforms. The role focuses on tooling, reporting, automation, and governance to operationalize enterprise FinOps capabilities.

You will enable workload teams to understand, forecast, and own their spend while aligning technology consumption to business value. Collaboration across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and Leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, FinOps, technology finance, analytics.
• Working knowledge of consumption-based cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, OCI, Snowflake, GitHub Copilot, AI/token-based services.
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management, billing, tagging, allocation, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and optimization.
• Billing data aggregation and normalization across providers to enable consistent dashboards and reporting.
• Technical ability to develop dashboard UI’s, reports, KPIs, and analytics using Power BI, SQL, Python, APIs, cloud-native cost tools, or data pipelines.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex usage and billing data into clear recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Establish Cloud workload cost estimation, forecasting, budgeting, alerting, and spend review processes across SEI’s cloud, data, developer productivity, and AI platforms.
• Standardize Cloud and AI cost reporting, allocation, tagging, KPIs, showback/chargeback inputs, and GL mapping in partnership with Business Management and Finance.
• Identify spend anomalies, analyze cost drivers, track optimization opportunities, and coordinate remediation with accountable workload teams.
• Analyze reservations, savings plans, committed-use discounts, enterprise agreements, and usage trends to support Procurement, Finance, and Business Management decisions.
• Perform quarterly and annual reviews to identify cost trends, recurring issues, lessons learned, tooling gaps, and opportunities to improve automation, standards, and governance.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost mgmt

Cloud platforms

Automation

Dashboards

Communication

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Python

APIs

Cost tools

Data pipelines

Job description

SEI is seeking a FinOps Engineer to improve cost transparency, automation, accountability, and optimization across cloud and data platforms. The role focuses on tooling, reporting, automation, and governance to operationalize enterprise FinOps capabilities.

You will enable workload teams to understand, forecast, and own their spend while aligning technology consumption to business value. Collaboration across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and Leadership is essential.