FinOps Cloud Engineer: Cost Optimization & Showback

Socket.dev; United States; Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

GuideWell is seeking a FinOps Engineer to own cloud cost visibility, allocation, and optimization as it migrates to the cloud and builds cloud financial management practices. The role designs tagging, cost allocation, showback, and forecasting; manages Savings Plans/RI coverage; and drives cost optimization within CI/CD and provisioning processes.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, Terraform depth, and the ability to communicate insights to finance and

Qualifications

• 4+ years 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 RI.
• 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 finance and executive audiences.

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

Translate findings to exec

Collaboration with engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS Cost Explorer

Azure Billing

CUR & RI management

Savings Plans

Multi-account environments

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

GuideWell is seeking a FinOps Engineer to own cloud cost visibility, allocation, and optimization as it migrates to the cloud and builds cloud financial management practices. The role designs tagging, cost allocation, showback, and forecasting; manages Savings Plans/RI coverage; and drives cost optimization within CI/CD and provisioning processes.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, Terraform depth, and the ability to communicate insights to finance and