Description

Key Requirements:

• Deep hands-on experience with GCP and AWS cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of GCP Data Platform services, including BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Dataproc, Cloud Storage, and related analytics services from a FinOps and cost management perspective. Development experience is not required, but the candidate should understand service architecture, consumption patterns, and cost drivers.
• Strong knowledge of AWS CUR, CUDOS dashboards, GCP Billing Console, Cloud Billing exports, and cloud cost management/reporting tools.
• Expertise in analyzing cloud billing, usage, and consumption data to provide actionable insights and support informed business decisions.
• Proven experience identifying and implementing cloud optimization opportunities in AWS and GCP, including commitment management, rightsizing, storage optimization, workload efficiency, and cost allocation strategies.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to connect technical cloud consumption to business and financial outcomes.
• Ability to develop forecasts, budgets, unit economics, showback/chargeback models, and executive-level FinOps reporting.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to clearly articulate actuals, forecasts, optimization recommendations, risks, and business impacts.
• Proven ability to act as a FinOps leader, driving governance, accountability, cost transparency, and optimization programs across engineering, finance, and business teams.
• Experience working closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Platform teams to influence architectural decisions that balance performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree