Cloud FinOps Analyst

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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DISCO

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Legal

DISCO is a company that specializes in cloud-based legal technology, offering a suite of products and services designed to streamline ediscovery and investigations. Their offerings include AI-powered tools such as Cecilia AI, which automates document review, case building, and timeline creation. DISCO aims to improve speed and productivity for law firms and corporate legal teams by providing tools that enhance data management, privacy, and accuracy. With end-to-end cloud solutions, DISCO is focused on helping legal professionals achieve better outcomes through enhanced technology.

📋 Description

• Manage and optimize cloud expenses within the Engineering organization, focusing on AWS infrastructure, Snowflake data platforms, and OpenAI/Anthropic API utilization. • Track consumption data, create financial models, and collaborate with engineering teams to build cost-efficient systems. • Build and manage cost models tracking spend across OpenAI and Anthropic, breaking down costs by application, prompt/response tokens, and model types. • Audit Snowflake utilization to optimize virtual warehouse sizing, auto-suspend settings, and data storage lifecycles. • Track utilization trends to assist leadership in evaluating capacity purchases and pricing models for specialized vendors. • Monitor AWS consumption and propose optimization strategies, including infrastructure rightsizing and managing Savings Plans and Reserved Instances. • Build real-time alerting systems to identify spending spikes. • Develop and implement cloud governance guidelines and tagging policies to ensure accurate expense allocation across engineering teams. • Create and maintain financial reports, variance analyses, and dashboards using QuickSight to communicate expense trends to stakeholders. • Develop data-driven forecasts and annual budgets for cloud and AI expenses based on engineering product roadmaps. • Coordinate with engineering, data, and finance teams to negotiate vendor pricing and align technical operations with budget guidelines.

🎯 Requirements

• A minimum of 6–7 years of professional experience in cloud financial management, technology systems analysis, or engineering operations • Platform Knowledge: Understanding of Snowflake credit structures and LLM pricing metrics (input/output tokens, context windows). • AWS Infrastructure: Knowledge of core AWS services, pricing models, and native cost management tools. • Data Analysis: Proficiency in SQL and Python to extract and manipulate raw cloud billing data and API transaction logs. • Data Visualization: Experience building technical dashboards in QuickSight or equivalent BI utilities. • FinOps Practices: Experience applying FinOps principles to consumption-based cloud and software services. • Financial Modeling: Competency in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and ROI calculation. • Technical Communication: Ability to translate complex cloud billing data into clear, actionable technical tasks for software and data engineers. • Quantitative Analysis: Analytical skills focused on solving optimization problems and reducing waste through automated solutions.

🏖️ Benefits

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment • Benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, as well as 401(k) • Competitive salary plus RSUs • Flexible PTO • Opportunity to be a part of a company that is revolutionizing the legal industry • Growth opportunities throughout the company