FinOps Engineer, Cloud & Kubernetes Optimization

Allstate Private Limited; Springfield, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a FinOps-focused professional to help teams understand and optimize cloud and container workloads. You will analyze usage data, identify opportunities, build lightweight automation, and translate findings into recommendations that engineering, product, and finance teams can act on.

The role is part of a growing FinOps function focused on proactive workload optimization and cost management as cloud usage expands, with opportunities to drive efficiency through automation and

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing cloud usage data to identify optimization opportunities.
• Ability to translate findings into actionable recommendations for engineering and product teams.
• Experience in automation and scripting to reduce manual analysis.

Responsibilities

• Analyze usage data, identify opportunities, build lightweight automation, and translate your findings into recommendations for engineering teams.

Skills

FinOps

Cost optimization

Data analysis

Automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description

About the Team

• Our FinOps team helps technology and product teams better understand what they are spending in the cloud, where that spending is going, and how they can get more value from it. We partner across engineering, product, architecture, finance, and procurement to turn complex cloud-usage data into practical recommendations and measurable outcomes.
• We are hiring because cloud usage continues to grow, and we need additional technical capability to identify optimization opportunities, automate analysis, and help teams take action.
• The team plans to expand as we move beyond traditional cloud-cost reporting toward more proactive workload optimization, unit economics, automation, and cost management for emerging technologies such as AI.

What You’ll Do

• In this role, you will help teams understand and optimize the cost of their cloud and containerized workloads. You will analyze usage data, identify opportunities, build lightweight automation, and translate your findings into recommendations that engineering,