Senior Engineer – AWS, FinOps

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🕒 July 27

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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AHEAD

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5.7M Venture Round - AHEAD on 2024-05

Consulting • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

AHEAD is a technology consulting and systems-integration firm that accelerates digital transformation by engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security. The company specializes in AI transformation and AI-enabled infrastructure, data platform and platform/workload modernization, secure and resilient architectures, operational excellence, and managed services including IT lifecycle and procurement (AHEAD Hatch) and hardware integration (AHEAD Foundry). AHEAD delivers end-to-end services from strategy and financial consulting to build and run operations, partners with major cloud and infrastructure vendors (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, VMware, NVIDIA, ServiceNow, Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, etc. ), and serves enterprise clients across industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail, and public sector.

📋 Description

• Drive cloud cost efficiency, automation, and governance across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and GCP). • Strengthen cost visibility, accountability, and optimization. • Embed automation and DevOps best practices across major public cloud platforms. • Partner with cloud engineering and finance stakeholders to standardize tagging. • Build cost dashboards and develop automated workflows. • Advance FinOps as a Service, integrating cloud cost management, CI/CD automation, and cost tracking to achieve operational excellence and financial transparency. • Lead engagements, demonstrate strong commercial awareness, and communicate maturely with stakeholders at all levels. • Design, develop, and deploy integration solutions with third-party tools. • Work directly with customer service owners, process owners, and delivery teams across engagements, demonstrations, and meetings. • Manage occasional travel and after-hours/weekend support during major incidents, client change windows, or similar events.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role. • Minimum 3+ years designing, securing, and deploying large-scale cloud applications and solutions. • Experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Operations, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including 1–2 years of FinOps or cloud cost optimization (AWS preferred). • Strong experience with AWS and Azure cost management, including tagging, cost allocation, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. • Knowledge of Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, rightsizing, utilization optimization, and cloud cost governance. • Experience with Power BI, Kusto Query Language (KQL), Amazon CloudWatch, Python, and PowerShell. • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep). • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and infrastructure automation. • Architect-level development skills in Python, PowerShell, Java, or similar programming languages. • Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform). • Strong networking knowledge, including VPCs/VNets, Subnets, Route Tables, Security Groups/NSGs, Load Balancers, VPNs, Network Connectivity, and Routing. • Strong Terraform development and modular infrastructure design experience. • Experience with AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, EKS, and other AWS native services. • Experience with multi-account AWS environments including AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs), Landing Zones, Account Vending, Baseline Configurations, and Guardrails. • Experience with DevOps platforms including Bitbucket (preferred), GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and GitLab CI/CD. • Experience with security and governance tools including Cloud Custodian, Trivy, SAST/DAST tools, Pre-commit Hooks, and other DevSecOps tools. • Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and remediation workflows. • Experience with secrets management solutions including AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, or equivalent. • Experience with monitoring and observability tools including Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, or similar platforms. • Experience with container security and image scanning for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. • Experience working in regulated environments including HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, or equivalent compliance frameworks. • Understanding of cloud data governance, data classification, and data protection. • Experience implementing cloud compliance, audit controls, and governance standards. • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. • Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills. • Self-motivated, well-organized, able to manage multiple priorities, and willing to travel as required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents • Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy • Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance • Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling • Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being • Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations • Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership