FinOps Engineer: Cloud Cost, Automation & Governance

181 SEI Global Services, Inc.; Oaks (PA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, 1

401(k) match

Education assistance

Commuter benefits

Up to 11 paid holidays/year

21 days PTO/year pro-rated

Paid parental leave

Back-up childcare arrangements

Paid volunteer days

Discounted stock purchase plan

Investment options

Access to employee networks

Job summary

SEI is seeking a FinOps Engineer to improve cost transparency, automation, accountability, and optimization across cloud and data platforms. This role will build scalable FinOps practices that help workload teams understand and own their spend.

As an engineering-aligned enablement role, you will develop tooling, reporting, and governance to scale cost management, forecast usage, and drive cost-aware decisions across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and Leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, FinOps, technology finance, analytics.
• Working knowledge of Azure, AWS, OCI, Snowflake, GitHub Copilot, AI/token-based services.
• Hands-on with cloud cost management, billing, tagging, allocation, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, optimization.
• Billing data aggregation and normalization across providers for dashboards and reporting.
• Ability to develop dashboard UIs, reports, KPIs, analytics using Power BI, SQL, Python, APIs.
• Strong communication skills to translate usage and billing data into clear recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Establish cloud workload cost estimation, forecasting, budgeting, alerting, and spend review.
• Standardize cloud and AI cost reporting, allocation, tagging, KPIs, showback/chargeback inputs, and GL mapping.
• Identify spend anomalies, analyze cost drivers, track optimization opportunities, and coordinate remediation with workload teams.
• Analyze reservations, savings plans, committed-use discounts, and usage trends to support decisions.
• Perform quarterly and annual reviews to identify cost trends, issues, and opportunities to improve automation and governance.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost management

Data analytics

Dashboards

Power BI

SQL

Python

Tools

Power BI

APIs

Data pipelines

Cloud-native cost tools

Job description

SEI is seeking a FinOps Engineer to improve cost transparency, automation, accountability, and optimization across cloud and data platforms. This role will build scalable FinOps practices that help workload teams understand and own their spend.

As an engineering-aligned enablement role, you will develop tooling, reporting, and governance to scale cost management, forecast usage, and drive cost-aware decisions across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and Leadership.