Remote Senior FinOps Analyst: Cloud Cost Strategy

Lifted, an Upwork Company; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted, an Upwork Company, seeks a Senior FinOps Analyst to guide engineering and R&D on cloud spending, identify optimization opportunities, and partner with APAC-based teams to align costs with forecasts and measurable outcomes.

You will monitor monthly spend, analyze AI/LLM cost drivers, document findings, and support forecasting and Showback reporting across teams in a remote engagement.

Qualifications

• Senior-level FinOps experience in cloud financial operations.
• Expertise in cloud cost management and optimization.
• Ability to investigate spending anomalies and produce written root-cause analyses.
• Experience advising R&D or engineering teams in a partner-facing capacity.
• Experience with cost forecasting and aligning forecasts with team projections.
• Familiarity with OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring.
• Experience with cost modeling and tracking investments or projects.
• Proficiency with Jira for documenting investigations and Slack for real-time support.
• Experience maintaining technical documentation and recurring reporting (Showback).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact for engineering teams seeking cloud cost guidance.
• Review monthly cloud spending and identify cost optimization opportunities.
• Capture meeting notes and recurring questions for monthly reporting.
• Monitor cloud and AI/LLM spending for anomalies.
• Document investigations in Jira and flag findings.
• Participate in monthly forecasting by reconciling forecasts with team plans.

Skills

Senior FinOps

Cloud cost management

Forecasting cost

Root-cause analysis

Jira documentation

Slack support

LLM cost drivers

Cost modeling

Stakeholder comms

Documentation wiki

Tools

Jira

Slack

OpenAI/LLM cost drivers

Job description

Lifted, an Upwork Company, seeks a Senior FinOps Analyst to guide engineering and R&D on cloud spending, identify optimization opportunities, and partner with APAC-based teams to align costs with forecasts and measurable outcomes.

You will monitor monthly spend, analyze AI/LLM cost drivers, document findings, and support forecasting and Showback reporting across teams in a remote engagement.