Senior Systems Analyst

Hudl; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 82,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation time

Remote work options

401(k) match

Health and wellness coverage

Job summary

Hudl is seeking a Senior Systems Analyst to own cloud FinOps from forecasting to optimization. You’ll forecast spend, allocate costs, and partner with accounting to keep numbers aligned while building guardrails to prevent cost overruns.

You’ll implement automation with Python, GitHub Actions, and AWS Lambda, monitor AWS pricing models, and drive cost efficiency across engineering, product, and finance. A strong communicator who thrives in ambiguity will excel here.

Qualifications

• 5+ years across data analysis, budgeting, and forecasting, with Cloud FinOps context preferred.
• Automation and scripting with Python and SQL.
• Deep knowledge of AWS pricing, cost models, and committed-use strategies.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and driving projects using Scrum or Kanban in Jira.
• Strong communicator who can move work across teams.

Responsibilities

• Forecast and allocate cloud and software spend; monitor AWS for anomalies and implement guardrails.
• Maintain the chargeback model and align with Accounting/FP&A to answer cost questions.
• Automate repetitive tasks with Python, GitHub Actions, and Lambda to reduce manual work.
• Identify cost and efficiency opportunities and drive them cross‑functionally to completion.

Skills

Data analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Python

SQL

Automation

AWS

Communication

Scrum/Kanban

AI awareness

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS Lambda

DBT

Terraform

Spacelift

CloudZero

SQL tooling

Job description

At Hudl, we build great teams. We hire the best of the best to ensure you’re working with people you can constantly learn from. You’re trusted to get your work done your way while testing the limits of what’s possible and what’s next. We work hard to provide a culture where everyone feels supported, and our employees feel it—their votes helped us become one of Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces .
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Your Role

Cloud and software are among the largest investments we make, and every dollar there is one that could also be going toward the product itself or the team building it. Our FinOps practice exists to make sure that spend is understood, accountable, and every dollar is working as efficiently as it can. As a Senior Systems Analyst, you'll own that picture end to end. You'll allocate spend back to the services and teams driving it, forecast where it's headed, and consult teams on best practices to propose changes that maximize efficiency. You'll be the single, trusted source of truth for product and leadership on the real cost of what we build and what's on the roadmap to better leverage those dollars we put to work.

As a Senior Systems Analyst, you’ll:

• Forecast and get ahead of cost. You'll own the models that track, allocate, and predict where our cloud and software spend is going, monitor AWS and the rest of our stack for anomalies, and action them the moment they surface. When something breaks, you won't just put out the fire, you'll build the guardrails that keep it from starting again.
• Turn spend into decisions leadership can act on. You'll maintain the chargeback model that ties every dollar back to the service, squad, or contract that incurred it, and partner with Accounting and FP&A to keep the numbers aligned. When leaders have a question about cost, you're the single pane of glass they come to.
• Automate anything worth doing twice. You'll write Python and leverage GitHub Actions and Lambda to take manual work off the team's plate, manage AWS reservations and Savings Plans, and use SQL and DBT against our data warehouse. If a task repeats, it's a candidate for automation, and you're the one who builds it.
• Find the work, then drive it home. You'll spot cost and efficiency opportunities on your own, shape them into a formal pitch, and once approved, carry them across engineering, product, finance, and accounting to completion. You're the connective tissue that keeps it all moving.

Location

Time spent collaborating with other Hudlies in-office will be a regular part of how you work. We’re currently prioritizing applicants within commuting distance of Lincoln or Omaha, Nebraska. You’ll be expected to work more days in-office than remote, but will have the freedom to coordinate your specific in-office schedule with your team.

Must-Haves

• See the story in the numbers. You bring 5+ years across data analysis, budgeting, and forecasting, and you're just as comfortable digging into a trend as you are building a budget or projecting what comes next (Cloud FinOps context strongly preferred).
• Fluent in automation and scripting. You have 5+ years using code to eliminate manual work, with strong proficiency in Python and working comfort in SQL.
• Deep knowledge of AWS. You have hands‑on experience with AWS, its pricing and cost models, and committed‑use strategies like Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. You can walk into an undefined problem, research it, define a path forward in a formal pitch, and manage it to completion using Scrum or Kanban in Jira, all without waiting to be told how.
• Strong communicator and connector. You can explain complex analysis to Directors and VPs as easily as to engineers, and you build the relationships that let you move work across teams. You work independently without working in a silo, bringing others along and cross‑training as you go.
• AI-forward. You use AI to make yourself and others faster, sharper, and more well‑rounded. That's a requirement here, not a novelty. Experience with the Claude ecosystem is a plus.

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Knowledge of our tech stack. Experience with CloudZero, Terraform (via Spacelift), GitHub Actions or AWS Lambda, SQL, DBT, Python, and leveraging APIs for sourcing data and management.
• FinOps credentials. FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP), or hands‑on experience applying FinOps best practices.
• A software engineering background. Foundational software engineering experience that helps you build solutions, not just analyze them.

Our Role

• Champion work‑life harmony . We’ll give you the flexibility you need in your work life (e.g., flexible vacation time, company‑wide holidays and timeout (meeting‑free) days, remote work options and more) so you can enjoy your personal life too.
• Guarantee autonomy . We have an open, honest culture and we trust our people from day one. Your team will support you, but you’ll own your work and have the agency to try new ideas.
• Encourage career growth . We’re lifelong learners who encourage professional development. We’ll give you tons of resources and opportunities to keep growing.
• Provide an environment to help you succeed . We've invested in our offices, designing incredible spaces with our employees in mind. But whether you’re at the office or working remotely, we’ll provide you the tech stack and hardware to do your best work.
• Support your mental and physical health . We care about our employees’ wellbeing. Our Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups and fitness partner Peerfit have you covered.
• Cover your medicalinsurance . We have multiple plans to pick from to ensure you’ll have the coverage you (and your dependents) want, including vision, dental, fertility healthcare and family forming benefits.
• Contribute to your 401(K). Yep, that’s free money. We’ll match up to 4% of your own contribution.

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is displayed below—starting salaries will typically fall near the middle of this range.

We make compensation decisions based on an individual’s experience, skills and education in line with our internal pay equity practices.

Base Salary Range

$82,000 - $137,000 USD

Inclusion at Hudl

Hudl is an equal opportunity employer. Through our actions, behaviors and attitude, we’ll create an environment where everyone, no matter their differences, feels like they belong.
We offer resources to ensure our employees feel safe bringing their authentic selves to work, including employee resource groups and communities . But we recognize there’s ongoing work to be done, which is why we track our efforts and commitments in annual inclusion reports .

Voluntary self‑identification, gender and race

We'd like to know how well we're doing to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion in our recruitment processes. To help us reach this goal, we'd appreciate if you'd take our diversity questionnaire. Your voluntary choice to complete it will create a separate, confidential record of your name, where you learned about the role you applied for, and information about protected characteristics (UK: the Equity Act 2010).

This information will be automatically removed from your profile prior to reviewing your application. Your data is kept strictly confidential and won't be used as a part of the selection process. We'll only use it to measure our recruitment activity and to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees.

U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Comp letion is voluntary)

Individuals seeking employment at Hudl are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. You are being given the opportunity to provide the following information in order to help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements.

Completion of the form is entirely voluntary . Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

The Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the applicable national data processing regulations (together, the “ Applicable Legislation ”) for candidates applying to the positions in the EU give rights to individuals about personal data held by others and as directed by the above Applicable Legislation Hudl provides you the following information:

• Hudl and its affiliates act as data controllers in relation to the personal data Hudl collects in connection with its recruiting and hiring processes, as well as with data subprocessors engaged by Hudl to help manage those processes. Hudl’s headquarters and its sub processes are located in the USA. If you are located outside of the USA, your personal data will be transferred to the USA once you submit it through our careers site.
• Diversity information is defined by the DPA as “sensitive”. The information you give will be held on both manual and electronic systems by Hudl.