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Cloud Engineer(FinOps)

SUMMARY:

The FinOps Cloud Engineer (FinOps) will serve as a bridge between the engineering, finance, and operations teams. The engineer will use a collaborative approach to manage, optimize, and report on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) costs, ensuring cloud investments are efficient and deliver maximum business value.

JOB DUTIES

• Collaborates with engineering, architecture, and finance teams to design and improve cloud cost allocation, tagging strategies, and reporting models.
• Monitor and analyze GCP usage, proactively identifying opportunities for cost optimization, right-sizing, and waste reduction.
• Manage and optimize Committed Use Discounts (CUDs), Sustained Use Discounts, and other pricing mechanisms within GCP.
• Identify interdependencies and knowledge gaps between engineering and finance regarding cloud architecture and cloud spend.
• Identifies opportunities to automate cost-reporting, budget thresholds, and anomaly detection activities.
• Work closely with cloud engineering teams to ensure FinOps best practices are integrated into infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines.
• Assist in the development, support & planning of FinOps tools, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure.
• Investigate, triage, and resolve unexpected spikes in cloud billing and usage.
• Utilize native GCP billing tools and third-party FinOps dashboards for proactive changes and alerting.
• Establishes continuous process improvement cycles where cloud resource performance, cost efficiency, and supporting technologies are reviewed and enhanced where applicable.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Typically requires a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 -5 years experience in a technology and/or software engineering role.  Prefer 2-3 years in an Cloud FinOps, Cloud platform, DevOps or similar role.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Deep understanding of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing, cost management tools, and pricing models
• Hands-on experience with core GCP services (Compute Engine, GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, etc.) and understanding their financial impacts
• FinOps Framework principles and cloud financial management
• Proficiency in analyzing large datasets (using BigQuery, SQL, etc.) to derive actionable insights regarding cloud spend
• Experience with FinOps and cloud cost management platforms (e.g., native GCP Billing Export to BigQuery,PowerBi, etc)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and how to implement cost-estimation policies
• A strong mix of cloud engineering architecture knowledge and financial analytical skills
• Experience with building and maintaining financial dashboards (e.g., Looker, Grafana, PowerBI)

This role is being offered with a Hybrid Telecommuting Plan, with the position requiring work onsite at our Birmingham, AL HQ office as required by manager, and remote work otherwise permitted. Salary range: $125,000 per year to $150,000 per year.  Email resume to: mot-talentacquisition@motion.com (Must REF: Job Title in subject line). 

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