Cloud FinOps Engineer
Core
Design and implement cost telemetry, anomaly detection, and automated governance to balance system reliability with cost-efficiency on Google Cloud Platform.
Role type
Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer (SRE)
Builds
Cost observability dashboards, alerting pipelines, and auto-remediation scripts for GCP spend optimization.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure & FinOps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) expertise, observability stack proficiency (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), SQL for BigQuery, infrastructure as code (IaC), Kubernetes (GKE), Compute Engine management
Preferred skills
Experience mapping microservices to cost centers, defining SLOs/SLIs for cost efficiency
Technologies
Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Kubernetes, Terraform
Responsibilities
Design cost telemetry pipelines using GCP Billing export data; Build alerting pipelines for cost spikes and resource anomalies; Partner with engineering to right-size compute resources; Develop auto-remediation scripts for orphaned resources and idle environments
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC