FinOps Engineer Lead: Cloud Cost & Automation

Bank of America; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 125,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America in Jersey City seeks a FinOps Engineer to lead cloud cost management, reporting, and governance across enterprise cloud platforms. You will partner with SRE, engineering, and finance to implement cost optimization and reliable FinOps practices.

The role emphasizes Python scripting for data extraction, SQL validation, and automated dashboards. You will administer Cloudability and Apptio, develop scalable data pipelines, and deliver actionable insights for budgeting, forecasting,

Qualifications

• FinOps & Cloud Cost Management: cloud cost reporting, usage analysis, cost drivers.
• Cost allocation, chargeback/showback concepts for transparency.
• Optimization analysis to improve cost efficiency.
• Budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for cloud finances.
• Actionable reporting for technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Development and Infrastructure teams to implement monitoring as per SRE guidance.
• Develops reliability scripts, tools, and libraries for instrumentation and automation.
• Implements code changes to use common reliability libraries and tools.
• Participates in architecture community of practice and cross-team communication.
• Identifies reliability gaps and defines solutions to reduce manual effort.
• Participates in major incident triage and failure scenario analysis.
• Provides ad hoc financial analysis and reporting on cloud spending.
• Designs a unified data platform for cloud cost and usage insights.
• Develops cloud financial reports, dashboards, and automated processes.
• Supports budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback, and cost optimization.

Skills

Automation

Collaboration

Analytical Thinking

DevOps Practices

Project Management

Risk Management

Solution Design

Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Adaptability

Tools

Cloudability

Apptio

SQL

Job description

Bank of America in Jersey City seeks a FinOps Engineer to lead cloud cost management, reporting, and governance across enterprise cloud platforms. You will partner with SRE, engineering, and finance to implement cost optimization and reliable FinOps practices.

The role emphasizes Python scripting for data extraction, SQL validation, and automated dashboards. You will administer Cloudability and Apptio, develop scalable data pipelines, and deliver actionable insights for budgeting, forecasting,