FinOps Engineer

Aubay Portugal; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training Academy

Career progression

Health insurance

Mental health platform

Team events

Family support

Language learning platform

Hybrid Lisbon onsite 2-3 days

Job summary

FinOps Weekly is seeking a seasoned cloud financial manager to lead budgeting, forecasting, and cost governance across multi-cloud environments. You will translate usage and spend trends into actionable insights for stakeholders while ensuring service quality.

The role emphasizes collaboration across finance and engineering, with a focus on automation, cost allocation, dashboards in Power BI, and adoption of FinOps standards. Hybrid Lisbon onsite 2–3 days, strong English required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of FinOps or cloud financial management experience.
• Background as a Cloud Developer or Cloud Architect.
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP billing models.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, and optimization strategies.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong Power BI expertise for analysis and reporting.
• Experience using IBM Cloudability for cloud cost management.
• Strong financial analysis skills.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills.
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher.
• Alignment with corporate culture, including integrity and ethics.
• Strong customer focus, teamwork, prioritisation, and daily commitment.

Responsibilities

• Implement FinOps standards, policies, and governance to support efficient cloud cost management.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, recharging, and cost optimization objectives.
• Monitor cloud spend, usage, trends, and anomalies, and provide timely insights.
• Identify optimization opportunities without affecting service quality.
• Produce reports, dashboards, and recommendations for stakeholders.
• Improve cost tracking, allocation, automation, and financial accountability across teams.

Skills

FinOps experience

Cloud developer

Cloud architect

AWS billing

Azure billing

GCP billing

Budgeting

Forecasting

Cost allocation

Optimization

Advanced Excel

Power BI

IBM Cloudability

Financial analysis

Stakeholder comms

English B2+

Integrity & ethics

Job description

This position focuses on cloud financial management and cost governance across major cloud environments. The role is responsible for helping ensure cloud spending is controlled, transparent, and aligned with business targets while maintaining service quality.

You will work on budgeting, forecasting, recharge activities, reporting, and optimization initiatives. The role also supports better financial accountability through improved tracking, allocation, and automation.

The position appears to sit at the intersection of cloud, finance, and stakeholder communication, requiring close collaboration with teams that need actionable insights into cloud usage, spend trends, and cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement FinOps standards, policies, and governance to support efficient cloud cost management.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, recharging, and cost optimization objectives.
• Monitor cloud spend, usage, trends, and anomalies, and provide timely insights.
• Identify optimization opportunities without affecting service quality.
• Produce reports, dashboards, and recommendations for stakeholders.
• Improve cost tracking, allocation, automation, and financial accountability across teams.

Required Skills

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in FinOps or cloud financial management.
• Background as a Cloud Developer or Cloud Architect.
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP billing models.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, and optimization strategies.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong Power BI expertise for analysis and reporting.
• Experience using IBM Cloudability for cloud cost management.
• Strong financial analysis skills.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills.
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher.
• Alignment with corporate culture, including integrity and ethics.
• Strong customer focus, teamwork, task prioritisation, and daily commitment.

FinOps Platforms

• IBM Cloudability

Reporting & BI

• Power BI
• Excel

FinOps Responsibilities

• Implement FinOps governance, standards, and policies.
• Support budgeting and forecasting activities.
• Manage recharge activities.
• Monitor and analyze cloud spend, usage, trends, and anomalies.
• Identify opportunities for cloud cost optimization.
• Improve cost allocation and tracking.
• Strengthen financial accountability across teams.
• Produce reporting and dashboards for stakeholders.

• Access to a Training Academy with technical and soft skills training, mentoring, tech communities, workshops, and in-person meetups.
• Regular feedback and a structured career progression model.
• Health insurance, including dental coverage.
• Access to a mental health platform and well-being initiatives.
• Team events and activities that support connection and team spirit.
• Support for personal and family life, including support from the birth of children through their educational path.
• Access to a language learning platform with conversational classes in multiple languages.
• Hybrid working model in Lisbon, with 2–3 days per week onsite.

Why You Might Be Interested

This opportunity offers a clear focus on FinOps in a multi-cloud environment, with responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and cost optimization. It may appeal to professionals who want to apply cloud financial management expertise in a role with measurable business impact. The position also includes exposure to major cloud platforms, Power BI, and IBM Cloudability. In addition, the hybrid setup in Lisbon and the development-focused environment may be attractive to candidates seeking both growth and structure.