FinOps-SRE Leader: Cloud Cost, Reliability & Automation

Qualer, Now a MasterControl Company; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

MasterControl Inc. seeks a Senior Finance Operations & Site Reliability Engineer to drive FinOps across AWS and Azure, ensuring scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure aligned with financial goals. You will own cost governance, build dashboards, and partner with Engineering and Finance to optimize spend and reliability at scale.

Lead SRE practices, implement observability, manage cloud budgets, and mentor teams in a reliability-first, cost-conscious approach across a global SaaS platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
• 3+ years of hands-on FinOps experience managing cloud cost optimization at scale.
• Strong understanding of SaaS infrastructure architecture and customer provisioning models.
• Ability to translate technical infrastructure decisions into financial impact.
• Comfortable partnering across Engineering, Finance, and Operations.
• Deep expertise with AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, SQL Server, EC2).
• Working knowledge of Azure infrastructure and cost management tooling.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or Bicep).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).
• Experience with Kubernetes administration, Helm, and container security best practices.
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar).
• At least one active cloud certification is required — AWS or Azure, such as:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Associate or Professional)
• AWS Certified Database Specialty
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ‑104)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ‑400)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ‑305)

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud financial operations (FinOps) practices across AWS and Azure, driving cost visibility and optimization.
• Own and manage cloud cost governance end-to-end — including tagging standards, budgeting frameworks, and chargeback/showback reporting.
• Build and maintain real-time dashboards and reporting tools for engineers and leadership on spend and trends.
• Develop unit economics models tying infrastructure costs to usage metrics.
• Identify and execute cost-saving opportunities across Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot usage, right-sizing.
• Evaluate AWS and Azure service utilization with actionable recommendations.
• Define and track cloud spend KPIs embedded across engineering and SRE teams.
• Define, implement, and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for critical services.
• Lead incident response and postmortems to drive continuous improvement.
• Design observability solutions with metrics, logs, tracing, and alerts for full-stack visibility.
• Champion automation to improve deployment velocity and reliability at scale.
• Embed reliability and cost-awareness into SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

FinOps

SaaS infrastructure

Cloud cost governance

Observability

CI/CD

Python/Bash/Go

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Job description

MasterControl Inc. seeks a Senior Finance Operations & Site Reliability Engineer to drive FinOps across AWS and Azure, ensuring scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure aligned with financial goals. You will own cost governance, build dashboards, and partner with Engineering and Finance to optimize spend and reliability at scale.

Lead SRE practices, implement observability, manage cloud budgets, and mentor teams in a reliability-first, cost-conscious approach across a global SaaS platform.