FinOps Engineer: Cloud Cost & Optimization Leader

Accenture; United States; On-site; USD 59,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a hands-on FinOps engineer to help clients optimize cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You will build data pipelines, configure FinOps platforms, and develop dashboards providing end-to-end visibility of technology estates.

You will analyze cloud and on‑prem workloads, identify savings opportunities, and support governance through CI/CD. Travel 0–100% may be required based on client needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in FinOps or cloud financial management; CSP billing datasets.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on exposure to datacenter, private cloud, storage, network, and database technologies.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience with BI tools (Power BI/Tableau).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, or Business (or related field) or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cost and usage data pipelines for AWS/Azure/GCP and integrate non-cloud sources such as VMware/Hyper‑V, Nutanix, SAN/NAS storage arrays, network telemetry (SD‑WAN), and enterprise databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
• Configure FinOps platforms (Cloudability, CloudHealth, Flexera One) and BI dashboards (Power BI/Tableau) for multi‑domain cost visibility
• Perform detailed analysis of cloud and on‑prem workloads; identify rightsizing, reserved instance, and autoscaling opportunities
• Execute optimization tactics for datacenter consolidation, private cloud capacity planning, storage tiering, network bandwidth optimization, and database performance tuning
• Document realized savings and provide actionable recommendations to client stakeholders
• Develop baseline forecasts and scenario models for cloud and full‑stack technologies; monitor variances and update dashboards
• Support tagging remediation and allocation rules for accurate show‑back/chargeback
• Apply cost governance standards in CI/CD pipelines and architecture reviews; ensure compliance with tagging and anomaly detection policies
• Prepare clear reports and dashboards; present findings to client leads; support workshops and governance forums

Skills

FinOps

Cloud financial management

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Cloudability

CloudHealth

Flexera One

Job description

Accenture is seeking a hands-on FinOps engineer to help clients optimize cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You will build data pipelines, configure FinOps platforms, and develop dashboards providing end-to-end visibility of technology estates.

You will analyze cloud and on‑prem workloads, identify savings opportunities, and support governance through CI/CD. Travel 0–100% may be required based on client needs.