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The Role
Owns cloud cost and usage analysis across AWS and GCP, identifying optimization opportunities, supporting allocation and chargeback, building financial models, reports, and dashboards, and validating savings. The role partners with engineering, finance, and cloud vendors on pricing and billing, develops cost-efficiency standards, trains engineers, documents processes, and mentors junior analysts.
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Engineering | Sydney, Australia | Remote, Remote | Full-Time
Your Future OrgTo be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.Your Future TeamIn this role as a Senior FinOps Analyst, reporting into the Head of Engineering FinOps, you'll be an important part of our cost efficiency strategy across Atlassian. As a member of our industry-leading FinOps team you'll be using our cost data and your cloud engineering experience to build a culture of cost efficiency across our AWS and GCP environments.It's your job to make sure our teams are educated and aware of their costs, understand the opportunities for efficiency and take direct action to improve the rate and usage of our cloud resources.
Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit
Your Future OrgTo be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.Your Future TeamIn this role as a Senior FinOps Analyst, reporting into the Head of Engineering FinOps, you'll be an important part of our cost efficiency strategy across Atlassian. As a member of our industry-leading FinOps team you'll be using our cost data and your cloud engineering experience to build a culture of cost efficiency across our AWS and GCP environments.It's your job to make sure our teams are educated and aware of their costs, understand the opportunities for efficiency and take direct action to improve the rate and usage of our cloud resources.
Responsibilities
- Own cost and usage insights for the teams and domains you partner with, identifying usage optimisation opportunities and making clear, evidence-backed recommendations that teams can adopt
- Work with engineering teams to find viable rate optimisation commitments, and contribute to conversations with cloud vendors on pricing and billing
- Lead cost efficiency discussions with engineering and finance teams
- Support cost allocation and attribution (tagging, showback and chargeback) so spend maps to services and teams, and connect it to product and customer outcomes through unit economics
- Design data models, reports and dashboards that give multiple stakeholders visibility of costs and opportunities
- Set standards for how we query our data, and build analytical models that keep working as the data changes
- Use AI tooling to speed up analysis and make our cost insights easier to act on
- Validate cost savings, including where there are complex considerations and trade-offs
- Plan and deliver training for engineers, improve our team documentation, and mentor more junior analysts
- Work as part of a fast-growing, multi-disciplinary, high impact FinOps team, with exposure and visibility across Atlassian engineering teams and senior leaders
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience as a technical business analyst, data analyst or FinOps analyst
- Demonstrated SQL or Python skills, including writing high quality queries across complex data sources
- A good understanding of cloud technology and how it is consumed and billed
- Experience turning data into recommendations for engineering or finance stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with GCP cost and usage data, such as billing exports, committed use discounts and reservations
- A background in FinOps, ideally at a SaaS or software company
- A background in business financial operations
- Technical or management experience with AWS
- Technical experience as a cloud engineer
- Familiarity with the cost of AI workloads
- Experience with tools such as Databricks, BigQuery and Tableau, and an interest in data visualisation practices
- Vendor management experience
- A FinOps Certified Practitioner or Google Cloud Professional certification
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience as a technical business analyst, data analyst, or FinOps analyst
- Demonstrated SQL or Python skills, including writing high-quality queries across complex data sources
- Good understanding of cloud technology and how it is consumed and billed
- Experience turning data into recommendations for engineering or finance stakeholders
- Hands-on experience with GCP cost and usage data, including billing exports, committed use discounts, and reservations
- Background in FinOps, ideally at a SaaS or software company
- Background in business financial operations
- Technical or management experience with AWS
- Technical experience as a cloud engineer
- Familiarity with the cost of AI workloads
- Experience with Databricks, BigQuery, and Tableau, with an interest in data visualization practices
- Vendor management experience
- FinOps Certified Practitioner or Google Cloud Professional certification
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Parental & Family Support — Parental support is highlighted through generous paid leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, plus fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits. Family-building coverage also includes IVF and fertility preservation.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, HSA/FSA access, and extensive mental-health resources. Support includes counseling and crisis services.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are noted as a standout feature in the U.S., including a company 401(k) match with immediate vesting. This structure supports long-term savings as part of total compensation.
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Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and Rovo. More than 300,000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology, including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan, track, and deliver their biggest ideas together.
Why Work With Us
At Atlassian, we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.
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