Staff Cloud FinOps Professional

About the role

This Staff Cloud FinOps professional role is based in Bengaluru and operates on-site. The position drives cloud financial management, cost optimization, and efficiency across large-scale cloud environments, combining technical cloud platform knowledge with financial analysis and business acumen. Day-to-day work involves owning and evolving FinOps practices, establishing cloud cost governance, identifying optimization opportunities, and developing strategies to improve cloud cost efficiency without compromising performance, scalability, security, or reliability.

What you’ll do

• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of Cloud FinOps practices across AWS, Azure, GCP, or multi-cloud environments
• Analyze cloud consumption, billing, utilization, and spending patterns to identify cost optimization opportunities
• Develop and implement comprehensive cost optimization strategies covering compute, storage, databases, networking, containers, Kubernetes, and managed cloud services
• Establish cloud cost governance frameworks, policies, budgets, forecasts, and spending controls
• Build dashboards and reporting mechanisms to provide visibility into cloud expenditure, usage trends, unit economics, and optimization performance
• Partner closely with Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Finance, Procurement, and Product teams to embed FinOps principles into day-to-day cloud operations
• Drive initiatives around rightsizing, resource scheduling, reserved capacity, savings plans, commitment management, workload optimization, and resource lifecycle management
• Define and track key FinOps metrics, including cloud spend, forecast variance, utilization, savings, unit cost, and cost avoidance

What you’ll bring

• 6–12 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud financial management, FinOps, DevOps, SRE, or a closely related domain
• Strong understanding of cloud cost structures and pricing models across major cloud platforms
• Hands-on experience with Cloud FinOps, FinOps, and Cost Optimization practices
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex cloud billing and usage data
• Experience with cloud cost management, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and optimization initiatives
• Understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure utilization, and resource consumption patterns
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to work across technical and business teams

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