Cloud Engineer - FinOps

Genuine Parts Company•Birmingham, AL

2d•$125,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The FinOps Cloud Engineer (FinOps) will serve as a bridge between the engineering, finance, and operations teams. The engineer will use a collaborative approach to manage, optimize, and report on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) costs, ensuring cloud investments are efficient and deliver maximum business value.

Requirements

Typically requires a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 -5 years experience in a technology and/or software engineering role.
Prefer 2-3 years in an Cloud FinOps, Cloud platform, DevOps or similar role.
Deep understanding of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing, cost management tools, and pricing models
Hands-on experience with core GCP services (Compute Engine, GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, etc.) and understanding their financial impacts
FinOps Framework principles and cloud financial management
Proficiency in analyzing large datasets (using BigQuery, SQL, etc.) to derive actionable insights regarding cloud spend
Experience with FinOps and cloud cost management platforms (e.g., native GCP Billing Export to BigQuery, PowerBi, etc)
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and how to implement cost-estimation policies
A strong mix of cloud engineering architecture knowledge and financial analytical skills
Experience with building and maintaining financial dashboards (e.g., Looker, Grafana, PowerBI)

Responsibilities

Collaborates with engineering, architecture, and finance teams to design and improve cloud cost allocation, tagging strategies, and reporting models.
Monitor and analyze GCP usage, proactively identifying opportunities for cost optimization, right-sizing, and waste reduction.
Manage and optimize Committed Use Discounts (CUDs), Sustained Use Discounts, and other pricing mechanisms within GCP.
Identify interdependencies and knowledge gaps between engineering and finance regarding cloud architecture and cloud spend.
Identifies opportunities to automate cost-reporting, budget thresholds, and anomaly detection activities.
Work closely with cloud engineering teams to ensure FinOps best practices are integrated into infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines.
Assist in the development, support & planning of FinOps tools, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure.
Investigate, triage, and resolve unexpected spikes in cloud billing and usage.
Utilize native GCP billing tools and third-party FinOps dashboards for proactive changes and alerting.
Establishes continuous process improvement cycles where cloud resource performance, cost efficiency, and supporting technologies are reviewed and enhanced where applicable.