FinOps Engineer: Cloud Spend Automation & Governance

SEI; Upper Providence Township (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Job summary

SEI is seeking a FinOps Engineer to improve cost transparency, automation, accountability, and optimization across cloud and data platforms. This engineering-aligned enablement role focuses on tooling, reporting, automation, and governance to scale cost management and drive business value.

You will operationalize enterprise FinOps capabilities, enabling workload teams to forecast, own spend, and align technology use with outcomes, while collaborating across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, FinOps, technology finance, analytics.
• Working knowledge of consumption-based cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, OCI, Snowflake, GitHub Copilot, AI/token-based services.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud cost management, billing, tagging, allocation, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and optimization.
• Billing data aggregation and normalization across providers to enable consistent dashboards and reporting.
• Technical ability to develop dashboard UI’s, reports, KPIs, and analytics using tools such as Power BI, SQL, Python, APIs, cloud‑native cost tools, or data pipelines.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex usage and billing data into clear recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Establish Cloud workload cost estimation, forecasting, budgeting, alerting, and spend review processes across SEI’s cloud, data, developer productivity, and AI platforms.
• Standardize Cloud and AI cost reporting, allocation, tagging, KPIs, showback/chargeback inputs, and GL mapping in partnership with Business Management and Finance.
• Identify spend anomalies, analyze cost drivers, track optimization opportunities, and coordinate remediation with accountable workload teams.
• Analyze reservations, savings plans, committed-use discounts, enterprise agreements, and usage trends to support Procurement, Finance, and Business Management decisions.
• Perform quarterly and annual reviews to identify cost trends, recurring issues, lessons learned, tooling gaps, and opportunities to improve automation, standards, and governance.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

Cloud cost management

Automation & tooling

Data dashboards

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Python

APIs

Job description

SEI is seeking a FinOps Engineer to improve cost transparency, automation, accountability, and optimization across cloud and data platforms. This engineering-aligned enablement role focuses on tooling, reporting, automation, and governance to scale cost management and drive business value.

You will operationalize enterprise FinOps capabilities, enabling workload teams to forecast, own spend, and align technology use with outcomes, while collaborating across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and