Senior FinOps Capacity Engineer
Core
Model, plan, and optimize cloud capacity for The New York Times' digital platforms to balance cost, performance, and resilience across AWS and GCP.
Role type
Senior IC FinOps Capacity Engineer
Builds
Forward-looking capacity models, infrastructure capacity plans, and cost-efficiency patterns for major news platforms and user journeys.
Domain
Media / Cloud Infrastructure & FinOps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud capacity modeling, cloud cost management, distributed system architecture, data analysis and forecasting, cloud cost tooling proficiency, stakeholder influence
Preferred skills
FinOps background, cloud financial management, readiness and reliability practices, load testing
Technologies
AWS, GCP, FinOut, Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer, GCP Billing/Export, Google Sheets, SQL, BigQuery
Responsibilities
Build and maintain forward-looking capacity models for major platforms; Translate growth into infrastructure capacity plans; Quantify cost of capacity vs. risk trade-offs; Partner with engineering to analyze scaling behavior and rightsize resources; Leverage cost and capacity tooling to produce actionable capacity signals; Mentor engineers on capacity planning best practices
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
