Staff Engineer – FinOps

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior FinOps/Cloud cost optimization leader to drive budgeting, forecasting, and cost savings across multi-cloud environments. The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration with engineers and IT executives to implement optimization strategies and governance.

Ideal candidates bring deep FinOps knowledge, strong cloud architecture acumen, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform to optimize spend and deliver data-driven insights for decision-makers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in FinOps projects and understanding FinOps concepts preferred.
• 5+ years budgeting, forecasting, cost savings, and reporting with various tools.
• 4+ years with open-source frameworks and cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• 3+ years cloud architecture/design including cost optimization and capacity planning.
• 2+ years software development or solutions engineering with Java, TypeScript, ReactJS, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
• Deep understanding of cloud services pricing models and billing structures.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrating strong grasp of cloud requirements such as cost optimization and capacity planning, facilitating cross-organizational partnerships for cost optimization discussions.
• Managing and implementing optimization and automation strategies for business processes.
• Contributing to a comprehensive strategy to enhance savings, improve spend reporting, governance, and drive process enhancement.
• Collaborating with leaders to collect budget requirements, establish and maintain budget reports, forecast costs and tasks.
• Overseeing FinOps stakeholder communications and KPIs for IT executives, collaborating with Controllers/Tech Financials Controls.
• Relaying critical information to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Developing the Economic Unit using business metrics to manage cloud operational expenses.
• Providing technical leadership across stack layers, focusing on full stack web app development and integration.
• Mentoring senior and junior engineers in system architecture, design, and implementation.
• Maintaining clear communication with partner teams and explaining technical implementations for alignment.
• Utilizing Kubernetes deployments to ensure reliable interaction with backend services and cloud/on-prem integrations.

Skills

FinOps

Budgeting

Forecasting

Cost Optimization

Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Full Stack Development

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Job description

• Demonstrating a strong grasp of cloud requirements such as cost optimization and capacity planning, facilitating cross-organizational partnerships for cost optimization discussions.


• Managing and implementing optimization and automation strategies for business processes.


• Contributing to the creation of a comprehensive strategy to enhance savings, improve spend reporting, governance, and drive process enhancement.


• Collaborating with business leaders, engineers, and partner teams to collect budget requirements, establish and maintain budget report using various tools, forecast the cost and relevant tasks.


• Overseeing FinOps stakeholder communications, defining FinOps KPIs for IT executives, and collaborating with Controllers/Tech Financials Controls.


• Effectively relaying critical information to stakeholders, including senior leadership.


• Assisting in developing the Economic Unit using business metrics to manage cloud operational expenses.


• Providing technical and thought leadership across multiple stack layers, focusing on full stack web app development and ensuring UI, microservices, and backend systems integration.


• Serving as a role model and mentor to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in system architecture, design, and implementation.


• Maintaining clear communication with partner teams and leads, explaining technical implementations to stakeholders for alignment across teams.


• Utilizing experience in deploying web applications in Kubernetes (k8s) environments to ensure reliable interaction with backend services and seamless integration with cloud and on-premises systems.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience working in FinOps Projects and understanding of FinOps concepts preferred.


• 5+ years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, cost savings, and reporting using various tools.


• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks and cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, GCP.


• 3+ years of experience with cloud architecture and design including cost optimization, capacity planning, performance tuning.


• 2+ years of professional software development experience and/or solutions engineering experience with technologies such as Java, TypeScript, ReactJS, BootstrapJS, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.


• Deep understanding of Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures that will allow the candidate to perform deep dives and complex analysis of cost trends, anomalies, identify areas of improvement and support decision making with data driven insights.


• Strong understanding of cloud-based services usage and pricing; AWS and/or Azure and Hands on cloud experience (AWS, Azure etc.).


• Strong understanding of cloud requirements, ability to partner across GEICO Tech and drive cost optimization discussions.


• Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimize performance and costs within cloud services.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in FinOps, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization strategies, while providing technical leadership in cloud architecture and full stack web application development. Proven ability to collaborate across teams and communicate effectively with stakeholders to drive process enhancements and cost savings.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• FinOps Project Management


• Cloud Architecture and Design


• Budgeting and Forecasting


• Full Stack Web Application Development


• Cost Optimization Strategies

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Cloud Technologies


• Budgeting


• Forecasting


• Cost Savings


• Cloud Architecture


• Java


• TypeScript


• ReactJS


• Kubernetes


• Terraform

Soft Skills

• Collaboration


• Communication


• Mentoring


• Leadership

Industry Keywords

• FinOps


• Cost Optimization


• Capacity Planning


• Performance Tuning


• Cloud Services

Tools & Technologies

• AWS


• Azure


• GCP


• Docker


• BootstrapJS