Manager I, Cloud FinOps

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Cost Governance Reporting

• Build, maintain, and enhance dashboards for real-time cost visibility (AWS CUR, Cost Explorer, QuickSight, Grafana, etc.).
• Deliver monthly/quarterly financial reports to engineering and leadership with insights, trends, and forecasts.
• Define and enforce tagging, budgeting, and allocation strategies across accounts, regions, and environments.

• Optimization Efficiency

• Partner with engineering to identify right-sizing opportunities, scaling policies (HPA/VPA/Karpenter), and storage optimization.
• Conduct regular reviews of EC2/RDS/EKS spend, reserved instances, savings plans, and committed use discounts.
• Benchmark alternative hosting models (AWS vs on-prem vs hybrid vs other cloud) for cost and performance trade-offs.

• Forecasting Planning

• Own cloud cost forecasting models for both short-term (monthly/quarterly) and long-term (3 5 year projections).
• Partner with Procurement and Finance to ensure cloud spend stays aligned with budgets and POs.
• Support deal models by projecting cost impact of new market launches and scale-ups.

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the bridge between engineering and finance teams translating technical deployments into financial impact.
• Support executive decision-making with what-if analyses and scenario planning.
• Educate teams on FinOps best practices through training and workshops.

Required Skills Qualifications

• Experience Level:

  Mid Senior (6 10 years relevant experience)

• Technical

• Strong hands-on experience with

  AWS Billing Cost Management tools (CUR, Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, RI Management, Budgets, etc.)

  .
• Experience with

  cloud monitoring and visualization tools

  (QuickSight, Grafana, CloudHealth, CloudCheckr, Apptio Cloudability, or equivalent).
• Good understanding of

  Kubernetes, EKS, scaling policies, and multi-account AWS setups

  .
• Strong Excel/SQL skills for ad-hoc financial analysis.
• Scripting/automation skills (Python, JavaScript, or Terraform for FinOps automation) are a plus.

• Functional

• Solid grasp of financial principles: budgeting, forecasting, unit economics, TCO/ROI analysis.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Leadership).
• Excellent communication skills to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner (or willingness to get certified).
• Experience with multi-cloud (GCP/Azure/OCI) environments.
• Prior experience in

  Telecom SaaS or large-scale subscription platforms

  is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset with attention to detail.