Senior AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Specialist (FinOps)

Quick Facts

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

Description

Lead FinOps initiatives to improve cloud cost efficiency, financial governance, and resource optimization across AWS. You will analyze AWS spending and usage, implement optimization strategies and governance controls, and deliver dashboards and reporting to engineering and business stakeholders. The focus is on measurable cost savings without compromising application performance, security, or reliability.

Responsibilities

• Analyze AWS cloud spending and identify cost-reduction opportunities
• Develop and implement cost optimization strategies across compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services
• Build dashboards and reports for visibility into consumption, trends, forecasting, and savings
• Establish cost governance policies, tagging standards, and chargeback/showback models
• Optimize EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFront, and other AWS services
• Evaluate and recommend Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and Spot Instances
• Identify and eliminate idle, underutilized, or orphaned cloud resources
• Collaborate with engineering on solution architecture and application design to incorporate cost optimization
• Partner with DevOps to automate 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
• 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), including Cost Anomaly Detection
• Knowledge of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and storage lifecycle optimization
• Skills in Terraform or CloudFormation
• Strong analytical skills to interpret large datasets and identify optimization opportunities
• 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
• Comprehensive benefits package (health insurance, Multisport, shopping vouchers)
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Hybrid-by-design with the option to work remotely within Poland
• Opportunity to work abroad up to 60 days annually and for business-driven relocation
• Career development programs, thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs
• Certification support (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
• English classes
• Corporate social and well-being events; offices with entertainment and relaxation areas, table tennis and football, and free snacks/coffee