FinOps Engineer

📋 Description Own cloud cost reporting across GCP and AWS — weekly, monthly, and ad hoc dashboards for Drive cost optimisation: rightsizing, committed use discounts (CUDs / RIs), idle resource cleanup Design and enforce a cloud tagging strategy — define taxonomy, automate compliance checks, and Build showback and chargeback models so teams understand and are accountable for their spend. Lead monthly FinOps review meetings — present spend trends, highlight anomalies, explain variances Set up and maintain budget alerts, anomaly detection, and forecasting models. TECH STACK Required GCP — primary cloud platform (Billing API, BigQuery cost export, CUD analyser, GCP Recommender) AWS — secondary cloud platform (Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, Trusted Advisor) Kubernetes — node pools, resource requests/limits, namespace cost attribution Datadog — monitoring and cost dashboards Terraform — infrastructure as code for cost-related configurations Good to have CloudZero — unit economics and cost allocation Istio — service mesh and traffic cost observability Python or SQL — cost data analysis and automation Looker or Grafana — cost visualisation