Senior FinOps Systems Engineer (Cloud Cost & Automation)

FinOps Weekly; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Stock purchase plan

Discounts at Marriott properties

Commuter benefits

Employee assistance plan

Childcare discounts

Job summary

FinOps Weekly seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead FinOps across Snowflake, AWS EMR and core AWS services. You will design automation for budget controls, tagging governance, and anomaly detection while collaborating with Finance and cross-functional teams to optimize costs.

You will drive platform optimization, implement policy-as-code, and ensure scalable, observable data pipelines with high reliability in a multi-cloud context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent.
• 7+ years IT experience, 5+ years on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Ali Cloud).
• 3+ years Snowflake cost optimization.
• 3+ years AWS EMR optimization (Spark tuning, cluster right-sizing, Spot strategies).
• Strong scripting: Python or Bash.
• Experience with cloud cost management tools (CloudHealth, Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer, Snowflake tools).
• Experience implementing FinOps strategies across AWS services.
• Proven experience managing large-scale cloud budgets and driving cost savings.
• Deep understanding of cloud pricing models, cost drivers, and optimization techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead FinOps engineering to analyze and optimize cost, usage, and performance across Snowflake, AWS EMR, and AWS data services.
• Design and implement automation for cost governance, including anomaly detection, budget controls, tagging compliance, and reservation planning.
• Partner with Finance to enable cost transparency through forecasting, budgeting, and chargeback/show back models while delivering actionable cost insights to leadership.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for cost-efficient cloud solutions, driving platform optimization, standardization, and best practices.
• Build, deliver, and maintain scalable cloud data platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and observability through monitoring and alerting.
• Establish operational standards, automation frameworks, and continuous improvement processes to enhance system reliability, efficiency, and engineering productivity.
• Ensure compliance with IT governance and security standards while managing vendor relationships, monitoring SLAs/KPIs, and driving continuous service improvement.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost optimization

Python

Bash

Automation

Cost governance

Data platforms

Snowflake

AWS

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

EKS

Snowflake tools

Job description

FinOps Weekly seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead FinOps across Snowflake, AWS EMR and core AWS services. You will design automation for budget controls, tagging governance, and anomaly detection while collaborating with Finance and cross-functional teams to optimize costs.

You will drive platform optimization, implement policy-as-code, and ensure scalable, observable data pipelines with high reliability in a multi-cloud context.