Cloud Engineer - Finance Operations

GuideWell is a healthcare organization focused on transforming health through compassionate, connected, and technology-enabled care. The FinOps Engineer will manage cloud cost visibility, allocation, forecasting, and optimization across the company's cloud estate while building its cloud financial management practice. The role partners with engineering, finance, and executive teams and uses cloud infrastructure, Terraform, SQL, and automation to improve cost efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects
• Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally
• Travel to and from our corporate offices may be required
• 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