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Cloud Engineer - Finance Operations

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Hiring Remotely in United States
109K-178K Annually
Mid level
Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in United States
109K-178K Annually
Mid level
Owns cloud financial management across AWS and Azure by analyzing spend, designing allocation and tagging models, building showback and forecasting, managing commitments, and executing optimization. Partners with engineering, finance, and executive teams to embed cost efficiency into architecture, provisioning, and CI/CD. Responsibilities include anomaly detection, rightsizing, storage tiering, idle resource cleanup, budgeting, migration planning, and cost reporting.
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The FinOps Engineer owns cloud cost visibility, allocation, and optimization across GuideWell's cloud estate as the company migrates to the cloud and builds its cloud financial management practice at the same time. This role designs the tagging and cost allocation model, builds showback and forecasting, manages Savings Plan and Reserved Instance coverage, and drives optimization work such as rightsizing and idle resource cleanup. The engineer partners with engineering teams to build cost efficiency into how workloads are designed and embeds cost checks into provisioning and CI/CD. This is a hands-on role that combines cloud infrastructure and Terraform technical depth with financial analysis and translates findings for finance and executive audiences.

 

What You Will Be Doing

 

  • Analyze cloud spend, investigate anomalies, and track run rate against business case 
  • Execute optimization: rightsizing, storage tiering, scheduling, idle resource cleanup 
  • Design and enforce the tagging and cost allocation model
  • Build showback reporting, budgets, and forecasting 
  • Manage commitment coverage and provide cost input to architecture reviews 
  • Set up budgets, forecasting, and anomaly detection. Route findings to the accountable owner.
  • Identify and execute optimization work such as rightsizing, storage tiering, scheduling, and idle resource cleanup.
  • Provide cost input to migration planning and architecture reviews.

What We Require

  • 4+ years related work experience in cloud financial management, cloud engineering and infrastructure 

  • Related Bachelor's degree required 

  • Strong working knowledge of AWS and Azure billing, Cost Explorer, CUR, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances. 

  • Experience with AWS Organizations/Azure Subscriptions and multi-account environments. 

  • Demonstrated cloud cost reduction with quantified results. 

  • SQL for cost and usage analysis. 

  • Ability to translate technical findings for a finance and executive audience.

 

What We Prefer

 

  • FinOps Certified Practitioner. 

  • Familiarity with the FOCUS specification.

  •  Python or equivalent scripting for automation. 

  • Enterprise Discount Program, MACC, or Migration Acceleration Program experience. 

  • Chargeback implementation in a regulated or not-for-profit environment. 

  • Terraform and CI/CD pipeline experience. Cost management across two or more major cloud platforms 

  • Third-party FinOps tooling such as Flexera, Cloudability, Harness. 
     

General Physical Demands

 

  • Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. 

  • Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally. 

  • This position offers a hybrid work arrangement which combines flexibility with in office engagement. Team schedules are determined based on role requirements and business needs. Travel to and from our corporate offices may be required.

 

What We Offer
As a Florida Blue employee, you will be at the heart of GuideWell’s vision – to lead the nation in transforming health through compassionate, connected, and technology-enabled care that delivers personalized value and empowered living. 
To support your wellbeing, comprehensive benefits are offered. As an employee, you will have access to: 
 

  • Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance
  • Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs
  • Leave programs to support personal circumstances
  • Retirement Savings Plan including employer match
  • Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days
  • Additional voluntary benefits available; and a comprehensive wellness program

Employee benefits are designed to align with federal and state employment laws. Benefits may vary based on the state in which work is performed. Benefits for intern, part-time and seasonal employees may differ.
To support your financial wellbeing, we offer competitive pay as well as opportunities for incentive or commission compensation. We also conduct regular annual reviews with pay for performance considerations for base pay increases. 

Typical Annualized Offer/Hiring Range: $109,300 - $136,600
Annualized Salary Range: $109,300 - $177,600
Final pay will be determined with consideration of market competitiveness, internal equity, and the job-related knowledge, skills, training, and experience you bring.
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to cultivating a work experience where everyone feels like they belong and can perform at their best in pursuit of our mission. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

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