FinOps Engineer

We're looking for a FinOps Engineer with a DevOps backbone who has an almost

obsessive eye for cost leaks, idle resources, and inefficiencies across our platform. If unused

EBS volumes, oversized instances, or a forgotten dev environment running on weekends

genuinely bother you — you'll fit right in.

This isn't a passive reporting role. You'll be expected to proactively hunt for waste,

propose optimizations, and drive strategic cost conversations with engineering, SRE,

and leadership across Zoop's entire platform — from infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters

to data pipelines and third-party services.

What You'll Own

• Continuously audit Zoop's cloud footprint (AWS/Azure/GCP) end-to-end —

compute, storage, networking, databases, observability stack, and SaaS tooling

— and flag every form of waste, big or small.

• Proactively propose cost-reduction strategies rather than waiting to be asked

— bring data, options, trade-offs, and a recommendation to the table.

• Lead monthly/quarterly cost reviews with engineering and product leadership;

turn billing data into actionable conversations.

• Build cost visibility dashboards and chargeback/showback models so every team

at Zoop knows what they're spending and why.

• Drive rightsizing, autoscaling tuning, Spot/Reserved Instance/Savings Plan

strategies, and storage tiering across the platform.

• Embed cost guardrails into CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and

Kubernetes manifests — catch wasteful resources before they're deployed.

• Optimize Kubernetes cost efficiency using tools like Kubecost, OpenCost, or

Karpenter; tune requests/limits, HPA/VPA, and node pools.

• Set up automated alerts and anomaly detection for budget breaches, idle

resources, and runaway costs.

• Partner with Finance for forecasting, unit economics (cost per user/transaction),

and cloud budget planning.

• Evangelize a cost-aware engineering culture — run internal sessions, write

playbooks, and make FinOps a shared responsibility, not a finance afterthought.

Who You Are

• Someone with genuine OCD around cost and wastage — you can't sleep

knowing a non-prod cluster ran all weekend at full capacity.

• A DevOps practitioner first, who understands why costs happen at the

infrastructure level — not just someone reading billing reports.

• Naturally proactive — you don't wait for tickets; you spot patterns, dig in, and

propose changes before anyone asks.

• Comfortable challenging engineering decisions diplomatically when they're

expensive, and equally comfortable defending necessary spend to finance.

• A clear communicator who can talk to both a senior engineer about Karpenter

configs and a CFO about quarterly burn.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Cloud

FinOps roles.

• Strong working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred), including native cost tools (Cost Explorer, CUR, Azure Cost Management, or GCP Billing).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi).
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go for automation, reporting, and cost tooling.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Solid grasp of cloud pricing models — On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings

Plans, Spot/Preemptible, committed-use discounts.

• SQL skills for querying billing data (AWS CUR via Athena/Redshift, BigQuery

billing exports).

Nice to Have

• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) certification.
• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with FinOps platforms (CloudHealth, Cloudability/Apptio, Spot.io,

Vantage, Kubecost).

• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud cost optimization.
• Understanding of SaaS unit economics (cost per customer, cost per transaction,

gross margin impact).

Skills:- FinOps, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Cloud Cost Optimization