Senior FinOps Analyst: Cloud Cost & AI Spend Optimizer (Remote)

AgileEngine, LLC.; Texas City (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive USD pay

Exciting projects

Flextime: remote and office options

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking aSenior FinOps Analyst to advise engineering on cloud costs and optimization. The role requires APAC business hours overlap, including PST and CST afternoon overlap, with a focus on OpenAI/LLM spend and cost forecasting. Strong communication and stakeholder engagement are essential for success.

You will collaborate with R&D teams, monitor spending, run root-cause analyses, and contribute to showback reporting while maintaining documentation in the wiki and Jira.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of FinOps experience.
• Strong cloud cost management and optimization expertise.
• Proven ability to investigate spend anomalies and produce written root-cause analyses.
• Experience serving as a partner-facing resource, advising and consulting directly with R&D/engineering teams.
• Cloud cost forecasting experience, including aligning central forecasts with team-level projections.
• OpenAI/LLM cost drivers and monitoring LLM spend.
• Cost modeling and team investment/project tracking.
• Proficiency with Jira for documenting investigations and Slack for real-time, asynchronous support.
• Experience maintaining technical documentation/wiki spaces and contributing to recurring reporting, such as Showback.
• Availability to cover APAC business hours with necessary PST and afternoon CST overlap.
• Upper-intermediate English level.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for R&D teams seeking cloud cost guidance, triaging and answering inbound questions via Slack and other channels.
• Engage proactively with APAC-based colleagues to review monthly cloud spending and surface cost opportunities; capture meeting notes with recommendations.
• Monitor cloud and AI/LLM spend for anomalies; investigate variances and deliver root-cause analyses with optimization recommendations; document in Jira.
• Participate in the monthly forecasting cycle; align central forecasts with team-level projections; produce forecast notes.
• Contribute cost-driver insights to showback reporting and team meetings to maintain cost awareness.
• Audit and update the cost-related wiki space; support cost education efforts.
• Model team cost projections and respond to help requests via Slack, email, and other channels.

Skills

FinOps experience

Cloud cost management

Root-cause analyses

Stakeholder advisory

Forecasting

APAC collaboration

English proficiency

Communication

Tools

Jira

Slack

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking aSenior FinOps Analyst to advise engineering on cloud costs and optimization. The role requires APAC business hours overlap, including PST and CST afternoon overlap, with a focus on OpenAI/LLM spend and cost forecasting. Strong communication and stakeholder engagement are essential for success.

You will collaborate with R&D teams, monitor spending, run root-cause analyses, and contribute to showback reporting while maintaining documentation in the wiki and Jira.