Cloud Operations Engineer

Role Overview

• Partner with technical product owners, IT teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand business processes, requirements, and objectives.
• Translate business needs into detailed technical specifications, user stories, and process flows to support IT implementation.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between business units and IT, ensuring solutions align with organizational strategy and system capabilities.
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud usage through FinOps platforms to maximize cost efficiency while supporting internal team productivity.
• Define and enforce cloud resource tagging standards and cost allocation models to enable accurate chargebacks and financial transparency.
• Collaborate with IT and business teams to identify and implement cost-saving initiatives, including rightsizing non-production resources, auto-shutdown and scheduling policies, and strategic use of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.
• Produce monthly OPEX variance reports, forecasts, and actionable insights for finance partners and departmental leadership.
• Establish governance and review processes for the security posture of critical SaaS collaboration platforms (e.g., Google Workspace).
• Regularly review security logs, audit trails, and access reports to detect anomalies, unauthorized access, and policy violations.
• Document identified security risks and collaborate with the Security team to define remediation plans, owners, and timelines.
• Ensure all system changes comply with internal security standards and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• 3–5 years in a blended role involving Business Analysis and Cloud Infrastructure or Financial Management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and rapidly shift focus across cloud operations, security compliance, and business initiatives.
• Proven experience managing cloud billing, cost reporting, and optimization across at least two major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), with a strong emphasis on OPEX and non-production environments.
• Working understanding of IT security fundamentals, IAM concepts, and reviewing SaaS security logs and audit data.
• Hands-on experience with FinOps platforms, major cloud providers, SaaS collaboration tools (Google Workspace), Jira, Confluence, and data analysis/reporting tools.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform

Benefits

• This is a hybrid role, requiring three days per week in the office.