Cloud Efficiency Engineer – AWS, FinOps

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🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

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☁️ Cloud Engineer

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📋 Description

• Trace cost signals to technical causes, including customer-level job costs, state machine changes, GraphQL cost by function, and per-operation unit economics • Build and maintain cost models for common and expensive operations • Rank cost-saving opportunities by expected saving, risk, effort, and stakeholders involved • Implement safe, measurable optimisations in owned code or configuration • Partner with engineering teams on larger changes using evidence • Drive Datadog and observability efficiency alongside AWS • Establish baselines before changes and verify realised production savings • Build guardrails and tooling for attribution, alerting, and cost visibility • Translate between engineering and Finance on technical and financial questions

🎯 Requirements

• Delivered meaningful, measured AWS savings in a scaled production environment, including the baseline, diagnosis, changes, trade-offs, and verified result • Working engineer who reads code, writes code, and ships changes • Strong systems diagnosis skills • Sound trade-off judgement, balancing savings against reliability risk • Ability to influence teams without direct management authority • Ability to validate results and prove savings are real • Role must be located in either the ANZ or PST timezone • Datadog or observability cost optimisation, FinOps engineering, finance/unit economics, granular cost attribution, GraphQL at scale, developer tooling, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, scaled SaaS/platform/observability, and finance/commercial background are bonus points, not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year, on top of a fully remote setup • 20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days sick & carer's leave • 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers (6 for secondary) • A remote-work allowance for home-office kit, co-working, or working elsewhere • Confidential EAP & mental health support • Support for learning and growth, with time and budget for conferences, courses, and coaching • Retirement and health coverage (based on your region)

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