Cloud Engineer (FinOps)

STM Consulting, Inc.

Birmingham, AL

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JOB DETAILS

SALARY

$90,000–$110,000

SKILLS

Analysis Skills, Automation, Best Practices, Billing, Bridge Building, Budget Reporting, Civil Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Continuous Improvement, Cost Allocation, Cost Control, Cost Estimates, Cost Reporting, Cross-Functional, Data Sets, Expense Reports, Expense Tracking, Finance, Financial Operations, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), Looker, Power BI, Pricing, Process Improvement, Product Pricing, Reporting Dashboards, Right-Sizing, SQL (Structured Query Language), Software Engineering, Technical/Engineering Design

LOCATION

Birmingham, AL

POSTED

2 days ago

Job Summary (List Format): FinOps Cloud Engineer

- Act as a bridge between engineering, finance, and operations teams to manage and optimize Google Cloud Platform (GCP) costs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and improve cloud cost allocation, tagging, and reporting strategies.
- Monitor, analyze, and report on GCP usage, identifying opportunities for cost optimization, right-sizing, and waste reduction.
- Manage and optimize GCP pricing mechanisms, including Committed Use Discounts and Sustained Use Discounts.
- Address knowledge gaps and interdependencies between engineering and finance regarding cloud architecture and spending.
- Identify and implement automation for cost-reporting, budget thresholds, and anomaly detection.
- Integrate FinOps best practices into infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines with cloud engineering teams.
- Support development and maintenance of FinOps tools, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure.
- Investigate and resolve unexpected spikes in cloud billing and usage.
- Utilize GCP native billing tools and third-party FinOps dashboards for proactive cost management and alerting.
- Drive continuous improvement cycles for cloud resource performance and cost efficiency.
- Requires strong understanding of GCP billing, cost management tools, and pricing models, and hands-on experience with core GCP services.
- Proficiency in analyzing large datasets (BigQuery, SQL, etc.) for actionable cloud spend insights.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform) for implementing cost-estimation policies.
- Experience in building and maintaining financial dashboards (e.g., Looker, Grafana, PowerBI) for cloud spend tracking and reporting.
- Typically requires a bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of experience in technology/software engineering, with 2-3 years in Cloud FinOps or related roles preferred.

About the Company

STM Consulting, Inc.

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