FinOps Cloud Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: FinOps Cloud Engineer

• Focus: Multi-cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) infrastructure cost optimization and observability/logs cost analysis

Description

Join a project in the financial sector where you will optimize cloud infrastructure costs across a multi-cloud environment. You will combine cloud engineering, automation, and FinOps practices—especially around logging/monitoring/storage cost drivers and cost governance.

Responsibilities

• Identify, analyze, and implement opportunities to optimize cloud infrastructure costs in Azure, AWS, and GCP

• Analyze logging, monitoring, and data storage costs to determine the main cost drivers

• Optimize log ingestion, retention, routing, filtering, and sampling with security and compliance requirements

• Design and implement automation and optimization mechanisms using Terraform, Python, Bash, and CI/CD tools

• Prepare optimization proposals with cost-saving forecasts, cost/benefit analysis, and risk assessment

• Implement changes according to governance, compliance, and change-management procedures, including rollback and validation plans

• Support the evolution of cost allocation models, resource tagging, and showback/chargeback mechanisms

• Define and maintain policies and control mechanisms (retention standards, service usage limits, budget alerts)

• Monitor the impact of changes, report actual savings, and detect cost re-increases

• Prepare reports and present cost, forecast, and risk recommendations to technical stakeholders and management

Requirements

• Practical experience working with at least two cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), including native logging and monitoring services

• Very strong knowledge of Azure: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Diagnostic Settings, Storage Accounts, Event Hubs, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Policy, Azure Cost Management

• Knowledge of cost mechanisms and billing models (AWS CloudWatch Logs, S3 lifecycle, Cost Explorer/CUR; GCP Cloud Logging, Log Router/Sinks, BigQuery, Storage lifecycle policies, Billing exports)

• Understanding of observability and logging architecture: ingestion, routing, retention, and data storage

• Experience analyzing large volumes of log data, identifying cost drivers, and implementing optimizations with measurable savings

• Ability to design, build, and deploy large-scale automation with Terraform, Python, and/or Bash

• Experience with CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps) and Infrastructure as Code / policy-as-code approaches

• Understanding of FinOps: cost allocation, showback/chargeback, optimization mechanisms, and cost governance in cloud

• Experience preparing savings forecasts, business analyses, and optimization proposals including assumptions, expected effects, and potential risks

• Knowledge of cloud governance and compliance

• Ability to present technical analyses and recommendations and effectively communicate with senior technical stakeholders

• English communication skills

Benefits

• B2B contract cooperation

• Hybrid model: 6 days per month from the Kraków office