AWS FinOps Analyst

About Role

AWS FinOps Analyst

AWS billing, pricing, and cost optimization services

Responsibilities:

AWS Cost Management & Optimization -

• Own end-to-end AWS cost monitoring and optimization for

  LUMIQ and client AWS accounts

  .
• Identify and implement cost-saving initiatives using:
• EC2 rightsizing and Graviton adoption
• Savings Plans and Reserved Instances optimization
• Spot Instances for fault-tolerant workloads
• S3 storage class optimization and lifecycle policies
• RDS, Redshift, and DynamoDB cost tuning
• Optimize costs across data, analytics, and AI/ML workloads running on AWS.

AWS FinOps Governance & Reporting -

• Define and enforce

  AWS tagging strategies

  , cost allocation models, and account structures.
• Build and manage

  chargeback / showback

  models for internal teams and clients.
• Prepare

  monthly AWS cost reports, forecasts, and variance analysis

  for leadership and client stakeholders.
• Set up and manage

  AWS Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, and alerts

  .

Stakeholder & Client Collaboration -

• Partner with

  engineering, DevOps, and platform teams

  to influence cost-efficient AWS architecture decisions.
• Support

  client-facing discussions

  by providing AWS cost insights, optimization roadmaps, and ROI-driven recommendations.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients on

  AWS pricing models and FinOps best practices

  .

Tooling, Automation & Accelerators -

• Leverage AWS-native tools:
• AWS Cost Explorer
• AWS Budgets
• AWS Cost & Usage Reports (CUR)
• AWS Compute Optimizer
• Contribute to automation of cost controls using

  AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

  .
• Help build reusable

  AWS FinOps playbooks, dashboards, and optimization frameworks

  for LUMIQ offerings.

Continuous Improvement & Enablement -

• Stay current with

  AWS pricing changes, new services, and optimization features

  .
• Enable teams through best practices, documentation, and training on cost-efficient AWS usage.
• Support LUMIQ's

  AWS Competency, Well-Architected, and FinOps practice maturity

  initiatives.

Skills & Qualifications

• 25 years

  of hands-on experience in

  AWS FinOps / AWS Cost Optimization / Cloud Financial Management

• Strong expertise in

  AWS pricing and billing models

• Practical experience with:
• EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, Redshift
• Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances
• Experience creating

  executive-level AWS cost dashboards and reports

• Strong analytical, financial, and communication skills
• Having

  AWS Cloud / FinOPs Practitioner

  certificate

  and

  Exposure to

  data engineering, analytics, or AI/ML workloads on AWS

  will be an added advantage