FinOps Cloud Engineer: Cost Optimization & Showback

Florida Blue Group; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Retirement Savings Plan

Paid time off and holidays

Wellness program

Volunteer time off

Job summary

GuideWell is seeking a FinOps Engineer to own cloud cost visibility, allocation, and optimization across the cloud estate. You will design tagging and cost allocation, build showback, forecasts, and manage Savings Plans and RI coverage while partnering with engineering to bake cost efficiency into workloads.

The role blends cloud infrastructure depth with financial analysis and requires translating findings for finance and executives. Hybrid work arrangement offered.

Qualifications

• 4+ years related work experience in cloud financial management, cloud engineering and infrastructure.
• Related 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.

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

Financial analysis

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Job description

GuideWell is seeking a FinOps Engineer to own cloud cost visibility, allocation, and optimization across the cloud estate. You will design tagging and cost allocation, build showback, forecasts, and manage Savings Plans and RI coverage while partnering with engineering to bake cost efficiency into workloads.

The role blends cloud infrastructure depth with financial analysis and requires translating findings for finance and executives. Hybrid work arrangement offered.