FinOps Engineer

American IT Systems; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

American IT Systems in Houston, TX is seeking an experienced FinOps Engineer to lead cloud cost management for data platforms on GCP and AWS. You will analyze billing, optimize spend, and drive cost transparency across engineering and finance teams.

The role requires 8–12 years of FinOps experience, deep knowledge of BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Dataproc, billing exports, and cost governance. You will build forecasts, showbacks, and executive-level reports to inform business decisions.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with cloud FinOps on GCP/AWS.
• Understanding of service architecture, consumption patterns, and cost drivers for data platforms.
• Experience with cloud cost management/reporting tools and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Analyze cloud billing, usage, and consumption data to provide actionable insights.
• Identify and implement cloud optimization opportunities in AWS and GCP.
• Develop budgets, forecasts, and showback/chargeback models for executive reporting.
• Communicate actuals, forecasts, risks, and business impacts to stakeholders.
• Drive governance and cost transparency across engineering, finance and business teams.

Skills

GCP FinOps

AWS FinOps

Cost Optimization

Billing Analytics

Data Platform

Cost Reporting

Stakeholder Mgmt

Executive Reporting

Tools

GCP Billing Console

Job description

Job Title: FinOps Engineer

Location: Houston, TX

Required Experience: 8-12 Years

We are primarily looking for a resource with strong FinOps expertise, particularly in Data Platform FinOps, cloud financial management, cost optimization, and billing analytics. The ideal candidate should have deep experience supporting large-scale data platforms on GCP and AWS, with a strong understanding of the cost drivers and optimization opportunities associated with modern data services.

Key Requirements:

• Deep hands-on experience with GCP and AWS cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of GCP Data Platform services, including BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Dataproc, Cloud Storage, and related analytics services from a FinOps and cost management perspective. Development experience is not required, but the candidate should understand service architecture, consumption patterns, and cost drivers.
• Strong knowledge of AWS CUR, CUDOS dashboards, GCP Billing Console, Cloud Billing exports, and cloud cost management/reporting tools.
• Expertise in analyzing cloud billing, usage, and consumption data to provide actionable insights and support informed business decisions.
• Proven experience identifying and implementing cloud optimization opportunities in AWS and GCP, including commitment management, rightsizing, storage optimization, workload efficiency, and cost allocation strategies.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to connect technical cloud consumption to business and financial outcomes.
• Ability to develop forecasts, budgets, unit economics, showback/chargeback models, and executive-level FinOps reporting.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to clearly articulate actuals, forecasts, optimization recommendations, risks, and business impacts.
• Proven ability to act as a FinOps leader, driving governance, accountability, cost transparency, and optimization programs across engineering, finance, and business teams.
• Experience working closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Platform teams to influence architectural decisions that balance performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.