This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 1000000 - Rs 1500000 (ie INR 10-15 LPA)
Experience: 3+ yrs
Location: Pune
Job Type: full-time
We are seeking a highly motivated FinOps Engineer with a strong DevOps and Cloud Engineering background to drive cloud cost optimization and financial accountability across a large-scale technology environment. This role is ideal for professionals who are passionate about identifying inefficiencies, eliminating cloud waste, and building a culture of cost-conscious engineering.
As a FinOps Engineer, you will work closely with Engineering, SRE, Product, and Finance teams to improve cloud resource utilization, optimize infrastructure spending, and implement cost governance strategies. You will play a critical role in ensuring that cloud investments align with business objectives while maintaining performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multi-cloud environments.
RequirementsKey Responsibilities
- Continuously monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure costs across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
- Identify idle, underutilized, or oversized resources and implement cost-saving recommendations.
- Conduct regular cloud cost audits covering compute, storage, networking, databases, observability platforms, and third-party services.
- Develop and maintain cloud cost visibility dashboards, reports, and forecasting models.
- Lead cost optimization initiatives including rightsizing, autoscaling improvements, storage lifecycle management, and utilization reviews.
- Implement and manage Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and other cloud pricing optimization strategies.
- Build chargeback and showback models to improve spending transparency across teams.
- Integrate cost governance controls into Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows.
- Optimize Kubernetes environments through resource tuning, node optimization, autoscaling strategies, and cost management tools.
- Establish automated monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting mechanisms for budget overruns and unexpected cloud spend.
- Collaborate with Finance teams on budgeting, forecasting, cloud spend analysis, and unit economics reporting.
- Drive cloud cost awareness through documentation, workshops, best practices, and engineering enablement initiatives.
- Partner with technical teams to balance performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Provide actionable insights and recommendations to leadership through periodic cost review meetings.
- 3+ years of experience in FinOps, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related roles.
- Strong expertise in cloud cost optimization and financial governance within AWS environments.
- Hands-on experience with cloud billing analysis, cost reporting, and native cloud cost management tools.
- Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar platforms.
- Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized workloads in cloud environments.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
- Knowledge of cloud pricing models including On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances.
- Experience integrating cost controls into CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.
- Ability to communicate technical and financial insights effectively to both engineering and business stakeholders.
- Familiarity with FinOps platforms such as Apptio, CloudHealth, Cloudability, Spot.io, Kubecost, or similar tools is an advantage.
- Experience working in multi-cloud environments and understanding cloud financial management best practices.
- FinOps certification and cloud platform certifications are desirable.
- Self-driven, proactive, and highly detail-oriented with a strong focus on continuous improvement and operational efficiency.
Skills Required
- 3+ years experience in FinOps, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or related roles.
- Strong expertise in cloud cost optimization and financial governance within AWS environments.
- Hands-on experience with cloud billing analysis, cost reporting, and native cloud cost management tools.
- Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized workloads in cloud environments.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
- Experience integrating cost controls into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
- Knowledge of cloud pricing models including On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances.
- Experience implementing cost governance: chargeback/showback models, forecasting, dashboards, and anomaly detection.
- Experience working in multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) environments and cloud financial management best practices.
- Familiarity with FinOps platforms such as Apptio, CloudHealth, Cloudability, Spot.io, or Kubecost.
- FinOps certification and cloud platform certifications (desirable).
What We Do
Weekday is an AI-powered recruitment platform that helps startups hire top-tier engineering and product talent. By leveraging a massive database of white-collar professionals and advanced outreach tools, the company streamlines the hiring process through automated sourcing, AI-driven resume screening, and white-glove contingency services. Their mission is to modernize recruitment by enabling companies to discover and engage passive candidates efficiently, ensuring high-quality hires for critical roles.
