Lead - Platform Engineering

Description

• Forecasting & Budgeting

• Produce monthly forecasts; track and explain variances vs. Budget
• Support annual/quarterly planning with scenarios and run-rate analysis
• Tie costs to unit metrics (e.g., cost per user, per API call)
• Data & Automation

• Write SQL and Python jobs to ingest, transform, and validate cost and usage data
• Automate reports, alerts, and reconciliation checks; reduce manual work
• Integrate actions with ticketing (e.g., create remediation tasks in Jira)
• Spend Visibility & Reporting

• Maintain daily/weekly/monthly spend reports and dashboards
• Keep a single source of truth for cost, usage, and tags (e.g., AWS CUR/Athena, invoices, APIs)
• Explain spend drivers in plain language for engineers and finance
• Stakeholder Engagement

• Run regular reviews with Engineering, FP&A, and Procurement
• Document decisions, owners, and due dates; follow up until closure
• Provide simple how-to guides for teams on budgets, tags, and cost hygiene
• Process & Controls

• Document processes for reporting, forecasting, and commitments
• Ensure data accuracy and auditability; support internal/external audits as needed
• Propose small, frequent improvements to reduce toil and defects
• Optimization & Commitments

• Identify right-sizing, scheduling, storage tiering, and other cost optimization opportunities
• Recommend and track Savings Plans/Reserved Instances; monitor coverage and utilization
• Quantify savings, impact, and any operational risk
  

Required Skills

• 3–5 years in cloud cost management, FP&A, or related operations role
• Strong SQL; ability to build and tune queries and models
• Experience with one programming language for automation (Python preferred)
• Hands-on with AWS cost tooling (CUR/Athena, Cost Explorer, Budgets) or similar in Azure/GCP
• AWS development experience
• Familiarity with a BI tool (e.g. Power BI)
• Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
• Clear writing and communication; able to explain trade-offs without jargon
  

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