Senior AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Specialist (FinOps)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Specialist (FinOps)

Description

Lead initiatives that improve cloud cost efficiency, financial governance, and resource optimization across an AWS environment. Combine deep AWS technical expertise with FinOps best practices to help engineering teams maximize business value while minimizing unnecessary cloud spend. Work across teams to deliver measurable savings without compromising application performance, security, or reliability.

Responsibilities

• Analyze AWS cloud spending and identify opportunities to reduce costs while maintaining operational excellence

• Develop and implement cloud cost optimization strategies across compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services

• Build dashboards and reports for visibility into consumption, trends, forecasting, and savings opportunities

• Establish cloud cost governance policies, tagging standards, and chargeback/showback models

• Optimize EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFront, and other AWS services for cost and performance

• Evaluate and recommend Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances

• Identify and eliminate idle, underutilized, or orphaned cloud resources

• Collaborate with engineering teams to incorporate cost optimization into solution architecture and application design

• Partner with DevOps teams to automate cost optimization using Infrastructure as Code and policy enforcement

• Monitor budgets, cost anomalies, and utilization trends using AWS native and third-party tools

• Present recommendations, savings opportunities, and executive reports to technical and business stakeholders

• Promote FinOps best practices across engineering teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, or equivalent practical experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing AWS cloud environments and optimizing costs in enterprise settings

• Understanding of AWS pricing models and billing

• Proficiency in AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), plus Cost Anomaly Detection

• Knowledge of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and storage lifecycle optimization

• Skills in Terraform or CloudFormation

• Strong analytical skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• English proficiency at B2 level or higher

Benefits

• Stable pay and Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount

• Health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers

• Referral bonuses up to $2,000

• Hybrid-by-design with remote opportunity within Poland

• Chance to work abroad up to 60 days annually and business-driven relocation opportunities

• Career development programs, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs

• Certification support (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS), English classes

• Corporate, social, and well-being events

• Note: Benefits apply to employees; contractor B2B cooperation terms are agreed individually