[Remote] Cloud Engineer- FinOps

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reqroute, Inc is seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer to join their Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE). This role is responsible for enabling financial accountability, cost optimization, and transparency across enterprise cloud platforms, collaborating with various teams to ensure efficient and governed cloud consumption.

Responsibilities

• Establish and operationalize cloud financial management (FinOps) standards, including:
• Cost allocation, tagging, and ownership models
• Showback / chargeback constructs aligned to portfolio funding
• Budgetary tracking and spend variance management
• Ensure cloud cost governance standards are integrated into Cloud CoE intake, design, and delivery processes
• Partner with Finance and Technology stakeholders to align cloud spend visibility with enterprise financial reporting expectations
• Lead cost optimization initiatives across cloud environments, including:
• Rightsizing and right typing of compute, storage, and platform services
• Identification and remediation of idle, unused, or underutilized resources
• Optimization of savings instruments (e.g., commitments, reservations, savings plans)
• Work directly with application and technical owners to prioritize, track, and realize savings opportunities
• Maintain accountability for validated cost savings, including forecasted and annualized impacts
• Develop and maintain cloud cost metrics, dashboards, and KPIs, including:
• Spend trends, anomalies, and usage patterns
• Savings realized versus forecast
• Application level and portfolio level cost efficiency indicators
• Translate cost and usage data into clear, executive ready insights for Cloud CoE leadership and senior stakeholders
• Contribute to leadership reporting, reviews, and audit ready documentation related to cloud financial performance

Skills

• Cloud billing, forecasting, and financial reporting
• Hands on experience on Cloud Native tools and FinOps platform tools
• Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation

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