FinOps Engineer

FinOps Weekly; Omaha (NE); Remote; USD 67,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

FinOps Weekly is seeking a FinOps Engineer with strong Azure cost management experience to drive cloud spend governance and optimization. You will work across engineering, finance, and leadership to implement tagging, cost allocation, and automation.

The role emphasizes building cost dashboards, translating technical usage into financial insight, and promoting FinOps practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in cloud operations, cost management, or FinOps.
• Strong knowledge of Azure pricing models and billing.
• Experience with cost analysis tools and data visualization.
• Scripting for automating reporting and cost controls.

Responsibilities

• Monitor cloud spend and forecast costs in Azure.
• Implement tagging standards and cost allocation.
• Prepare cost reports and present insights to stakeholders.
• Promote FinOps culture across the organization.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve cost efficiency.
• Automate cost controls and reporting.

Skills

FinOps

Azure

Cost analysis

Data visualization

Automation scripting

Tools

Apptio Cloudability

CloudHealth

Kubecost

Databricks

Job description

Job Title: FinOps Engineer

Job Type: B2B Contract

Job Location: Spain - Remote

Summary

Brings financial accountability to cloud usage by tracking spend, driving optimization, and enforcing governance, working across engineering, finance, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, and forecast Azure spend using Cost Management, Power BI, and custom dashboards
• Implement tagging standards and cost allocation (showback/chargeback) by team, product, and environment
• Identify and drive optimization: rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, reserved instances, savings plans, spot usage, and storage tiering
• Track and optimize Databricks spend: DBU consumption by workspace, job, and team using billing system tables; job vs all-purpose compute; serverless vs classic; autoscaling and auto-termination; and committed-use planning
• Define and enforce resource governance: budgets, quotas, alerts, and Azure Policy for tagging and approved SKUs, plus Databricks cluster policies and custom tags for cost attribution
• Automate cost controls (e.g., shutdown schedules for non-production, anomaly alerts)
• Partner with engineering teams to review architectures for cost efficiency
• Prepare regular cost reports and present insights to stakeholders
• Promote FinOps culture and practices across the organization

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in cloud operations, cost management, or FinOps
• Strong knowledge of Azure pricing models and billing, including Databricks DBU-based pricing
• Experience with cost analysis tools and data visualization
• Ability to translate technical usage into financial insightScripting skills for automating reporting and cost controls

Preferred Qualifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner
• Experience with third-party tools (Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth, Kubecost)
• Understanding of Kubernetes cost allocation
• Experience building Databricks cost dashboards from system tables