Overview
Sr FinOps Cloud Engineer
Focus: Execution, Migration, and Infrastructure Governance
You are the technical engine of the FinOps team. You don't just move workloads; you analyze the target environment for efficiency, communicate migration risks to app owners, and use a critical eye to hunt down architectural waste. You are the bridge between the Architect's high-level strategy and the actual cloud console.
Key Responsibilities
- Migration Execution & Risk Analysis: Perform hands-on migrations from Azure/AWS to IBM Cloud Bare Metal. Critically evaluate source workloads to ensure the destination instance is right-sizednot just a 1:1 lift and shift of waste.
- Waste Elimination & Automation: Own the Cleanup backlog. Use analytical thinking to identify patterns in orphaned resources and write scripts to automate their removal across the enterprise.
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary technical point of contact for app owners during migrations. You must clearly communicate the why behind cost-saving changes and coordinate maintenance windows with precision.
- Daily Spend Forensics: Monitor AI and Cloud spend daily. Beyond just alerting, you must perform a root-cause analysis (RCA) on spend anomalies to determine if they are legitimate growth or technical leakage.
- Commitment & Tagging Governance: Execute RI/Savings Plan purchases and enforce strict tagging compliance. You are responsible for ensuring 100% of cloud resources are analytically traceable to a business unit.
Professional & Analytical Requirements
- Communication Mastery: Ability to translate technical migration steps into clear, non-technical status updates for project managers and business stakeholders.
- Critical Thinking: A skeptical mindset toward cloud defaults. You should instinctively question why a database needs 2TB of premium storage if only 10% is utilized.
Required Experience & Technical Skills
Category
Requirement
Cloud Platforms
4-6 years of hands-on admin in
Azure & AWS (Associate/Professional level); hands-on with
IBM Cloud / Classic Bare Metal.
Networking
VMware NSX, PfSense, and Fortinet. You must understand the data-flow logic to avoid breaking apps during a move.
Migration Tools
Expert use of
VMware HCX, Carbonite, or Azure/AWS native migration services.
AI & Strategic Tools
Ability to use AI/LLMs to refactor simple scripts, analyze complex log files for waste, and generate technical documentation.
Compliance & Backup
Knowledge of backup/recovery (Veeam, Zerto, or native) to ensure Eliminate tasks never impact data durability.
