Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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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

• Lead detailed analysis of cloud spend, usage trends, allocation accuracy, anomalies, and optimization opportunities across AWS, Azure, and GCP • Identify, quantify, prioritize, and drive optimization opportunities including rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, storage and data transfer optimization, licensing alignment, and scheduling strategies • Track optimization opportunities and validate financial outcomes without double-counting unrealized savings • Lead cost visibility and allocation for containerized and Kubernetes workloads • Analyze and optimize AI and GPU-related spend • Extend cost analysis to SaaS, software licensing, and marketplace spend • Conduct cloud cost and operational excellence best-practices reviews • Lead cost allocation, tagging governance, mapping logic, reporting accuracy, and non-taggable resource treatment • Define and maintain unit economics and cost-per-unit metrics • Own or lead dashboards, reports, budgets, forecasts, showback and chargeback views, executive summaries, and recurring service review content • Lead billing data validation and reconciliation, including work toward FOCUS-standardized formats • Implement continuous tagging governance with policy enforcement and automated remediation • Maintain client-facing FinOps tooling and portals • Manage commitment portfolios, reserved capacity, savings plan modeling, purchase recommendations, renewals, and savings realization • Support enterprise agreement, private pricing, and committed-spend discussions • Present financially grounded recommendations to technical, business, finance, procurement, and executive stakeholders • Communicate with external customers and help client leadership set strategic direction • Translate customer business requirements into technical and financial requirements and lead complex deliverables • Partner with CloudOps, DevOps, platform, application, finance, procurement, and client stakeholders • Maintain tickets, documentation, meeting follow-ups, and communications • Facilitate recurring client advisory calls • Build queries, data transformations, and automation using SQL and Python or PowerShell • Integrate third-party tools, billing sources, and reporting platforms • Estimate, prioritize, and complete work independently within committed timelines • Provide technical leadership and coordinate technical delivery resources without direct personnel-management responsibility • Execute approved remediation activities through client workflows and change-control procedures • Monitor delivery hours and coordinate approved overages or rescoping • Mentor Cloud FinOps Engineers and contribute to standards, playbooks, reusable assets, and continuous improvement • Represent the practice through thought leadership, workshops, conferences, and webinars • Support pre-sales, solutioning, scoping, positioning, and service maturation • Deliver FinOps and tooling education to client teams • Provide occasional after-hours or weekend support for incidents, deadlines, change windows, and urgent cost-related issues • Maintain current cloud and professional certifications and meet individual goals

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, finance, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience • 5+ years of combined experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, infrastructure, or cloud cost management, including at least 3 years focused on cloud financial management, cost optimization, or FinOps • 3+ years in a customer-facing, stakeholder-facing, consulting, or service delivery role • Hands-on experience designing, deploying, or operating large-scale, multi-account, multi-subscription, or enterprise cloud environments • Subject matter expertise in at least one major public cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP • Working proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language such as Python or PowerShell • Experience using cloud cost management, billing analysis, or reporting platforms • Demonstrated experience integrating third-party tools, billing data sources, and reporting platforms • Strong analytical, spreadsheet, and problem-solving skills • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States • Ability to successfully complete AHEAD and client-required background screening • Availability during assigned team standard business hours, with flexibility for United States time zones • Ability to participate in on-call or escalation rotation where applicable • Relevant professional and cloud certifications consistent with role, practice, and individual development requirements • Preferred: managed services, consulting, or outsourced service delivery experience • Preferred: multi-cloud FinOps or cost optimization experience • Preferred: FinOps Certified Practitioner, FinOps Certified Professional, AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications • Preferred: Harness CCM, Apptio Cloudability, CloudZero, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, or PowerShell experience • Preferred: forecasting, budgeting, allocation, showback, chargeback, commitment planning, and savings realization experience • Preferred: FinOps Framework, FOCUS, Kubernetes/container cost allocation, AI/GPU cost management, mentoring, ticketing platforms, and pre-sales experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401(k) • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Cross department training and development • Sponsored certifications and credentials for continued learning • Diversity and belonging initiatives • Remote work within the United States • Up to 10 percent domestic travel