FinOps Engineer Lead: Cloud Cost & Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive program

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a FinOps Engineer to lead cloud cost management across major cloud platforms, delivering accurate reporting, dashboards, and governance for informed decision-making. You will automate data processes with Python and collaborate with SRE, Cloud, and Finance teams to optimize spend.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with cloud cost reporting, and the ability to translate technical findings into actionable business insights while contributing to

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud cost and usage reporting, including analysis of consumption trends and cost drivers across cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of cost allocation methodologies and chargeback/showback concepts to support financial transparency and accountability.
• Ability to perform optimization analysis, identify savings opportunities, and recommend cost efficiency improvements.
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis activities related to cloud financial management.
• Ability to provide actionable reporting and insights to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Python scripting for data extraction, transformation, reporting, and automation.
• Experience with SQL for querying, validating, and reconciling large datasets.
• Familiarity with cloud billing structures, pricing models, and native cloud cost management services.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Development and Infrastructure teams to understand technical solutions and implement monitoring capabilities outlined by the Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
• Develops and maintains reliability scripts, tools and libraries and leverages them for common instrumentation, automation, and operational needs.
• Partners to implement code changes to make use of common reliability libraries and tools and helps teams understand how to use them.
• Participates in architecture community of practice meetings and communicates across channels.
• Identifies vulnerabilities and opportunities for reliability improvement and defines solutions to reduce manual support effort.
• Engages as a subject matter expert in major incident triage and failure scenario modeling and diagnosis with Problem Manager root causes.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and executive reporting related to cloud spending and optimization initiatives.
• Design and establish a unified backend data platform and front-end service layer for cloud cost, usage, and optimization insights.

Tools

Cloudability

Apptio

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a FinOps Engineer to lead cloud cost management across major cloud platforms, delivering accurate reporting, dashboards, and governance for informed decision-making. You will automate data processes with Python and collaborate with SRE, Cloud, and Finance teams to optimize spend.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with cloud cost reporting, and the ability to translate technical findings into actionable business insights while contributing to