FinOps Cloud Engineer: Cost Optimization & Showback

Florida Blue; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement plan with match

Paid time off

Wellness program

Job summary

Florida Blue seeks a FinOps Engineer to own cloud cost visibility, allocation, and optimization as we migrate to the cloud and mature our cloud financial management practice. You will design tagging models, build showback, manage Savings Plans, RI coverage, and drive optimization across two or more cloud platforms.

This hands-on role combines cloud infra and financial analysis, translating findings for finance and executives.

Qualifications

• 4+ years related work experience in cloud financial management, cloud engineering and infrastructure.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS and Azure billing, Cost Explorer, CUR, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances.
• Experience with AWS Organizations/Azure Subscriptions and multi-account environments.
• Demonstrated cloud cost reduction with quantified results.
• SQL for cost and usage analysis.
• Ability to translate technical findings for a finance and executive audience.

Responsibilities

• Analyze cloud spend, investigate anomalies, and track run rate against business case.
• Execute optimization: rightsizing, storage tiering, scheduling, idle resource cleanup.
• Design and enforce the tagging and cost allocation model.
• Build showback reporting, budgets, and forecasting.
• Manage commitment coverage and provide cost input to architecture reviews.
• Set up budgets, forecasting, and anomaly detection. Route findings to the accountable owner.
• Identify and execute optimization work such as rightsizing, storage tiering, scheduling, and idle resource cleanup.
• Provide cost input to migration planning and architecture reviews.

Skills

Cloud cost management

SQL for cost analysis

Finance/Executive communication

Cloud cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Flexera

Cloudability

Harness

AWS

Azure

Job description

Florida Blue seeks a FinOps Engineer to own cloud cost visibility, allocation, and optimization as we migrate to the cloud and mature our cloud financial management practice. You will design tagging models, build showback, manage Savings Plans, RI coverage, and drive optimization across two or more cloud platforms.

This hands-on role combines cloud infra and financial analysis, translating findings for finance and executives.