Site Reliability Engineer - FinOps Analyst
About The Position
Johnson Controls Inc. is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer - FinOps Analyst at its facility at 5757 North Green Bay Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53209. The role helps identify and manage global software and hosted cloud spending, compiles and distributes financial reports for business owners, visualizes spending data, and advises customers on application and infrastructure costs. The position works with engineering, product, finance, procurement, SRE, and senior leadership teams to manage cloud costs and support financial objectives. Telecommuting is available two days per week. The role also supports security and compliance initiatives, including assessing security baselines, organizational compliance requirements, access governance, auditability, and operational efficiency. The position requires a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in a specified field and at least two years of relevant experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Management, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of experience as an SRE Cloud Engineer, Cloud FinOps Analyst, or in an occupation involving systems engineering, technical management, and financial analysis.
- Employment experience with cloud services such as compute services, storage, databases, and container orchestration platforms.
- Experience with Azure Cost Management, budgeting, and forecasting, including monitoring and optimizing cloud spend, identifying cost drivers and savings opportunities, and providing budget, forecast, and variance insights.
- Experience with FinOps governance and cost allocation, including tagging standards, ownership models, and chargeback/showback practices.
- Experience using automation tools such as Power Automate or programming languages such as Python or shell scripting to automate repetitive processes.
- Experience using predictive analysis to estimate software and cloud costs and set financial budgets.
- Experience using software APIs to interface with multiple tools and autonomously extract or update data.
- Experience using SQL and Excel for exploratory data analysis and reporting.
- Experience building reports with Power BI or similar business intelligence tools.
- Experience analyzing and implementing best practices to maintain the security of cloud products.
Responsibilities
- Track, analyze, and report on software and cloud expenditures to support budgetary constraints and organizational financial goals.
- Work with engineering teams to optimize spending, reduce costs, and adopt savings plans.
- Partner with product teams to plan, allocate, and optimize budgets for upcoming fiscal years.
- Identify and automate manual processes to improve operational efficiency and reporting.
- Evaluate cloud cost drivers and recommend strategies to reduce overall spending.
- Build and present detailed financial forecasts for product spending to support data-driven decisions.
- Identify and promote awareness of cloud compliance and spend-management issues across product teams.
- Provide expertise in cost analysis, financial modeling, and strategic recommendations.
- Collaborate with SRE, finance, procurement, engineering, and senior leadership on cloud financial objectives.
- Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning of cloud spending.
- Monitor and support security and compliance initiatives, including security baselines, compliance requirements, access governance, auditability, and operational efficiency.
- Compile and distribute financial reports for business owners, visualize cost data, and educate and advise customers on application and infrastructure costs.
Benefits
- Eligible for benefits under the Johnson Controls, Inc. Employee Referral Program, which includes specific incentives for referring employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
