FinOps Engineer: Cloud Cost Optimization & Automation

FinOps Weekly; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales CSP in Austin, TX is seeking a FinOps Engineer to lead cloud financial management across AWS/Azure/GCP. You will drive cost visibility, budgeting accuracy, and governance in multi-cloud environments.

Collaborating with finance, engineering, and operations, you will design IaC solutions, automate cost controls, build dashboards, and promote cost-aware engineering decisions to maximize cloud investments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of FinOps with cloud cost optimization.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP environments.
• Experience budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage cloud spend across AWS/Azure/GCP with governance.
• Develop cost forecasts and variance analyses.
• Build dashboards for cloud spend and utilization.
• Automate cost controls and tagging enforcement.

Skills

Strong analytical and financial

Translate technical cloud usage

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Problem solving & detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/CS/IS

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Python

Bash

Git

CI/CD tooling

Power BI

Job description

Thales CSP in Austin, TX is seeking a FinOps Engineer to lead cloud financial management across AWS/Azure/GCP. You will drive cost visibility, budgeting accuracy, and governance in multi-cloud environments.

Collaborating with finance, engineering, and operations, you will design IaC solutions, automate cost controls, build dashboards, and promote cost-aware engineering decisions to maximize cloud investments.