Senior FinOps Engineer

Selby Jennings; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings in New York City is seeking a Senior FinOps Engineer to drive cost transparency, governance, and optimization across cloud and on-premises environments.

This role partners with engineering, platform, finance, and operations to improve financial accountability and efficiency while supporting a high‑performance technology ecosystem. Strong SQL and Python skills for data analysis, budgeting, and reporting, plus experience with AWS and/or Azure, are required.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud cost reporting, forecasting, allocation, and governance.
• Strong SQL and Python skills for data analysis, automation, and reporting.
• Experience creating dashboards and executive reporting using analytics tools.
• Familiarity with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cost accountability.
• Ability to assess infra decisions through cost, performance, and scalability lenses.

Responsibilities

• Enhance visibility into infrastructure and platform spending across cloud and on-premises.
• Develop reporting, forecasting, allocation, and governance frameworks.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to improve cost awareness and efficiency.
• Identify opportunities for optimization through workload analysis and capacity planning.
• Support cost allocation models and improve ownership, tagging, and attribution.
• Investigate spending trends and variances; provide actionable recommendations.
• Assist engineering teams with cost planning and tradeoffs in architecture choices.
• Build automation, integrations, and tooling to streamline reporting and governance.
• Support cost management initiatives for AI, data platforms, and accelerated compute.
• Contribute to FinOps maturity with standards and operational frameworks.

Skills

AWS

Azure

SQL

Python

Cost reporting

FinOps

Dashboards

Forecasting

Governance

Job description

A leading investment management organization is seeking a Senior FinOps Engineer to help drive technology cost transparency, governance, and optimization across cloud and infrastructure environments. This individual will partner closely with engineering, platform, finance, and operations teams to improve financial accountability and efficiency while supporting a high-performance technology ecosystem.

Senior FinOps Engineer

A leading investment management organization is seeking a Senior FinOps Engineer to help drive technology cost transparency, governance, and optimization across cloud and infrastructure environments. This individual will partner closely with engineering, platform, finance, and operations teams to improve financial accountability and efficiency while supporting a high-performance technology ecosystem.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Enhancing visibility into infrastructure and platform-related technology spending across public cloud and on-premises environments.
• Developing reporting, forecasting, allocation, and governance frameworks that support informed technology investment decisions.
• Partnering with technical and business stakeholders to improve cost awareness and operational efficiency.
• Identifying opportunities for infrastructure optimization through workload analysis, resource utilization reviews, lifecycle management, and capacity planning initiatives.
• Supporting financial allocation models and improving ownership, tagging, and attribution standards across technology platforms.
• Investigating spending trends, anomalies, and variances while providing clear recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Assisting engineering teams with infrastructure cost planning and evaluating tradeoffs related to architecture, deployment models, and platform selection.
• Building automation, integrations, and internal tooling to streamline reporting, governance, and financial operations processes.
• Supporting cost management initiatives related to emerging technologies, including AI, data platforms, and accelerated compute resources.
• Contributing to the ongoing maturity of FinOps practices, standards, and operational frameworks.

Desired Technical Background

Candidates should bring experience in cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, FinOps, or technology financial management along with:

• Strong understanding of AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Exposure to hybrid infrastructure, virtualization technologies, storage platforms, and enterprise computing environments.
• Experience with technology cost reporting, financial analysis, optimization initiatives, and governance programs.
• Strong SQL and Python skills for data analysis, automation, and reporting.
• Experience creating dashboards and executive reporting using modern analytics and visualization tools.
• Familiarity with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost allocation, and financial accountability frameworks.
• Ability to assess infrastructure decisions through the lens of cost, performance, scalability, and reliability.

Preferred Experience

• Exposure to cloud financial management or FinOps methodologies.
• Experience with cloud spend optimization tools and financial management platforms.
• Knowledge of infrastructure lifecycle planning, capacity management, and enterprise technology investments.
• Experience supporting cloud commitments, vendor negotiations, consumption planning, or financial modeling.
• Understanding of cost drivers associated with AI, machine learning, data platforms, or GPU-intensive workloads.

What Makes Someone Successful

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Comfortable working across multiple initiatives in a fast-moving environment.
• Naturally curious about technology economics, operational efficiency, and optimization opportunities.
• Self-motivated with a desire to continually improve processes and drive measurable outcomes.

This opportunity is ideal for professionals who enjoy combining cloud and infrastructure knowledge with financial analysis, reporting, automation, and strategic decision-making.