FinOps Engineer - AWS Optimization

5-8 years of experience in AWS Cloud Operations, FinOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Support, or Cloud Cost Optimization.

Hands-on experience with AWS Billing and Cost Management, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimizer, and cloud optimization reporting.

Good understanding of AWS services including EC2, EBS, RDS, S3, VPC, Load Balancers, NAT Gateway, CloudWatch, Backup, and related cost drivers.

Experience in rightsizing, reserved capacity analysis, Savings Plans/Reserved Instance utilization, tagging, cost allocation, and budget variance analysis.

Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret usage, cost, trend, and utilization data to recommend actionable improvements.

Good knowledge of Excel and reporting, with exposure to dashboards, data extracts, cost models, or scripting considered an advantage.

Ability to coordinate with technical teams to validate risks, implementation feasibility, rollback considerations, and change management requirements.

Strong communication skills to explain cost optimization recommendations to both technical and business stakeholders.