FinOps Specialist: Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps Leader

Decskill; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

International exposure

Professional development

Continuous learning

Job summary

Decskill seeks a Cloud Financial Management | FinOps Specialist for an international project based in Porto. You will monitor cloud and AI spending, improve cost visibility, and identify optimization opportunities.

Collaborate with finance, engineering, operations, and product teams to support governance, forecasting, and decision-making. The role emphasizes FinOps practices, cost reporting, and ROI analyses across cloud environments, with opportunities to work in distributed teams and influence

Qualifications

• Professional experience in Cloud Financial Management, FinOps, or DevFinOps.
• Strong knowledge of cloud service cost management and optimization.
• Experience with cloud pricing models, discounts, and optimization strategies.
• Knowledge of FinOps principles and methodologies.
• Experience with cost attribution, showback, forecasting, and amortization.
• Experience identifying cloud cost drivers and optimization opportunities.
• Experience with rightsizing and cloud resource optimization.
• Experience with cloud financial reporting and monitoring.
• Experience developing financial models and cost projections.
• Knowledge of ROI analysis and scenario modelling.
• Experience working with AWS environments.
• Knowledge of Savings Plans and rate optimization.
• Experience integrating FinOps into engineering and delivery processes.
• Familiarity with Policy-as-Code concepts and DevFinOps.
• Experience in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor cloud and AI spending, trends, and cost drivers across products and services.
• Prepare and present weekly and monthly cost reports.
• Identify optimization opportunities and implement rightsizing, waste reduction, and Savings Plans.
• Develop financial models, projections, and ROI evaluations.
• Support FinOps controls, governance, and policy-as-code in delivery pipelines.
• Track optimization results and improve cost-management tools and processes.
• Present insights to technical, financial, operational, and management stakeholders.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost optimization

AWS

DevFinOps

Financial modeling

Tools

Python

SQL

Snowflake

Jupyter Notebooks

Excel

Job description

Decskill seeks a Cloud Financial Management | FinOps Specialist for an international project based in Porto. You will monitor cloud and AI spending, improve cost visibility, and identify optimization opportunities.

Collaborate with finance, engineering, operations, and product teams to support governance, forecasting, and decision-making. The role emphasizes FinOps practices, cost reporting, and ROI analyses across cloud environments, with opportunities to work in distributed teams and influence