Staff Engineer – FinOps
Core
Leading FinOps Engineering projects to drive cloud cost optimization, budgeting, forecasting, and capacity planning for a large auto insurer.
Role type
Staff Engineer (FinOps & Cloud Optimization)
Builds
Cloud cost optimization strategies, automated reporting tools, and economic unit models for operational expenses.
Domain
Insurance / Cloud FinOps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, budgeting and forecasting, cross-organizational partnership, stakeholder communication, microservices architecture, Kubernetes deployment, data-driven decision making
Preferred skills
FinOps concepts, open-source frameworks, solutions engineering
Technologies
AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, Django, gRPC, Kafka, Apache Spark, Java, TypeScript, ReactJS, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
Responsibilities
Facilitate cross-organizational partnerships for cost optimization discussions; Manage and implement optimization and automation strategies for business processes; Collaborate with business leaders and engineers to collect budget requirements and forecast costs; Define FinOps KPIs for IT executives and relay critical information to senior leadership; Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple stack layers; Serve as a mentor to senior and junior engineers in system architecture and design.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities