Cloud FinOps Engineer
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Devsinc is looking for a detail-oriented Cloud FinOps Engineer to join our team in KSA. In this role, you will bridge the gap between finance, operations, and engineering teams to optimize cloud spending and ensure financial accountability in our cloud development projects.
Requirements
5+ years in cloud engineering/operations, 2+ years dedicated to FinOps or cloud cost management.
Hands-on with at least two clouds (ideally including OCI plus AWS/Azure/GCP) and their native cost tools.
Strong understanding of pricing constructs (RIs/Savings Plans/CUDs, egress, storage tiers, managed DBs, Kubernetes costs) and workload patterns.
Proficiency in SQL and one scripting language (Python or PowerShell), experience building data pipelines for billing datasets.
Experience with Terraform (or similar IaC) and governance (tagging policies, budgets, quotas).
Ability to build executive & engineering dashboards (Tableau /Grafana) and deliver clear written/spoken recommendations.
Excellent stakeholder skills with IT, Finance, and Procurement.
Key Responsibilities:
Cost Visibility & Allocation: Establish tagging/labels and account/subscription structure, maintain cost allocation (business unit, product, environment). Build/show dashboards.
Optimization & Right-Sizing for cloud services.
Forecasting & Budgeting: Build forecasts, set budgets and alerts, explain variance (price/usage/mix), and support annual/quarterly planning.
Define and enforce cost guardrails (budgets, quotas, egress policies), tagging standards, and non-prod hygiene, integrate checks in CI/CD.
Manage billing exports, model unit costs (e.g., cost per transaction/journey), and publish monthly FinOps reports.
Run optimization reviews with product/platform teams, negotiate with cloud providers, align with Finance on accruals.
Ensure FinOps processes align with security, SAMA data-residency, and audit requirements, maintain evidence for governance reviews.
Requirements
- ā¢5+ years in cloud engineering/operations
- ā¢2+ years dedicated to FinOps or cloud cost management
- ā¢Hands-on with at least two clouds (OCI plus AWS/Azure/GCP)
- ā¢Strong understanding of cloud pricing constructs
- ā¢Proficiency in SQL and Python or PowerShell
- ā¢Experience with Terraform (or similar IaC)
- ā¢Ability to build executive dashboards (Tableau/Grafana)
- ā¢Excellent stakeholder skills with IT, Finance, and Procurement
Nice to Have
- ā¢Experience building data pipelines for billing datasets
- ā¢Experience with governance (tagging policies, budgets, quotas)
- ā¢Deliver clear written/spoken recommendations
- ā¢Align with Finance on accruals
- ā¢Maintain evidence for governance reviews
Responsibilities
- ā¢Establish tagging/labels and maintain cost allocation
- ā¢Build/show dashboards for cost visibility
- ā¢Optimize cloud services (Right-Sizing)
- ā¢Build forecasts, set budgets and alerts, explain variance
- ā¢Define and enforce cost guardrails
- ā¢Manage billing exports and publish monthly FinOps reports
- ā¢Run optimization reviews with product/platform teams
- ā¢Negotiate with cloud providers
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