EverestDX - Cloud FinOps Engineer - AWS / Azure

Job Description :

We are looking for a Cloud FinOps Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering team and drive financial accountability across our cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, Datadog, MongoDB Atlas, and other engineering tools).

You will be responsible for monitoring cloud usage, optimizing costs, enforcing governance controls, and enabling engineering teams to build cost-efficient solutions without compromising on performance.

Key Responsibilities :

• Monitor and analyze cloud spend across compute, storage, networking, and PaaS services.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities (rightsizing, auto-scaling, reserved instances, spot usage).
• Partner with engineering, product, and platform teams to design cost-efficient architectures.
• Define and enforce tagging standards for accurate cost allocation and chargeback.
• Manage storage lifecycle policies to optimize retention, archival, and tiering strategies.
• Build dashboards, alerts, and reports to improve cost visibility and accountability.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis of cloud spend.
• Optimize licensing, reservations, and savings plans across cloud services.
• Provide regular FinOps insights to leadership on spend trends, risks, and savings wins.
• Promote a FinOps-first culture by educating teams on cost awareness and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with governance, RBAC, security, and financial policies.
• Automate operational tasks through CI / CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure Automation).
• Maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and runbooks for FinOps operations.

Preferred Qualifications :

acceptable).

Nice to Have :

Required Skills :

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