FinOps Engineer

OneAdvanced are seeking a FinOps Engineer to work alongside our FinOps Lead with cost optimization and financial management for AWS and Azure environments, ensuring efficiency and financial accountability.

The successful candidate will collaborate with various teams to implement cost-saving initiatives, ensure financial accountability, and enhance visibility into cloud expenditures.

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• Cost Optimization: Implement strategies like rightsizing, reserved/spot instances, and auto-scaling.
• Automation & IaC: Use Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation; script in CDK, JavaScript, Bash, PowerShell.
• Tagging & Governance: Apply resource tagging, budget controls, and compliance policies.
• Harness Platform: Manage cloud costs with Harness; integrate with AWS and Azure.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Manage budgets, forecast spending, track expenditures.
• Alerts & Notifications: Set up alerts for cost anomalies and budget overruns.
• Reporting & Analytics: Generate reports, analyze trends, track KPIs.
• Collaboration: Work with finance, operations, and engineering teams.
• Continuous Improvement: Enhance cost optimization strategies.
• Cloud Services: Understand AWS and Azure services, pricing, and billing.
• DevOps: Manage CI/CD pipelines, automate tasks, ensure security and compliance.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years in cloud financial management.
• Proficiency in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with cloud cost tools (CloudHealth, Harness CCM, AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management).
• Strong scripting/programming skills (NodeJS, Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, Java, C#).
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or similar certification.

Preferred Skills:

• Cloud architecture experience.
• Advanced PowerShell and Bash scripting.
• Familiarity with Harness.
• Experience with New Relic and Agile methodologies.

Wellbeing focused – Our people are our greatest assets, and ensuring everyone feels their best self to come to work is integral

• Annual Leave – 25 days of annual leave, plus public holidays and the ability to buy additional days
• Employee Assistance Programme – Free advice, support, and confidential counselling available 24/7 through Care First
• Endometriosis Friendly Employer - We are proud to confirm our commitment to developing an environment and culture that allows those with endometriosis to thrive in the workplace

Personal Growth - Regardless of where you are at in your career, we’re committed to enabling your growth personally and professionally

• Development Programmes – From Future Managers to Leadership Training, our development programmes help you get where you need to go
• Performance Bonus – Our Group-wide bonus scheme enables you to reap the rewards of your success

Financial wellbeing - We understand as well as your mental wellbeing, your financial wellbeing is really important

• Pension Scheme – Our plan with Scottish Widows offers 5% matched contribution by the company
• Income protection insurance – Providing you with support and assistance when you need it most

Recognition – Highlighting and rewarding the great work our people do

• Values Awards – Our quarterly employee-driven initiative to highlight and reward the people in the organisation who embody our values the most
• Performance & Talent – Our own technology platform that allows you to get real-time feedback, conversations and goals to help you become your best self

Making a Difference – we provide opportunities to help our people make a difference to the causes they care about

• MatchIt! – Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and Advanced will match part of the funding
• Volunteering Time – Our volunteering leave scheme allows you to use your time to help those who need it
• Pennies from Heaven – donate the pennies from your pay check to help make a difference without lifting a finger