The Senior Systems Engineer – FinOps is a senior technical specialist responsible for driving cloud cost optimization, financial accountability, and engineering-led efficiency across large-scale data platforms. This role focuses on FinOps optimization across Snowflake, AWS EMR, and core AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, Redshift, Glue, DynamoDB, EKS).
The engineer designs and implements automation for tagging compliance, budget guardrails, workload efficiency, and anomaly detection to ensure cost-effective, scalable data solutions. Partnering with Cloud Platform, Data Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Finance teams, the role enables cost transparency, enforces governance through policy-as-code, and reduces spending without impacting performance or reliability.
Leveraging FinOps best practices, cost observability, and automated controls, this role ensures efficient operation of Snowflake, EMR, and AWS data pipelines while shaping scalable optimization strategies across a multi-cloud environment.
Required Education & Experience
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Experience with cloud cost management tools (CloudHealth, Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer, Snowflake tools).
Preferred Education & Experience
CORE WORK RESPONSIBILITIES
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Lead FinOps engineering by analyzing and optimizing cost, usage, and performance across Snowflake, AWS EMR, and AWS data services (EC2, EKS, S3, Redshift, Glue, DynamoDB, Lambda).
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Design and implement automation for cost governance, including anomaly detection, budget controls, tagging compliance, and reservation planning, supported by unified cost dashboards.
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Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for cost-efficient cloud solutions, driving platform optimization, standardization, and best practices.
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Build, deliver, and maintain scalable cloud data platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and observability through effective monitoring and alerting.
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Establish operational standards, automation frameworks, and continuous improvement processes to enhance system reliability, efficiency, and engineering productivity.
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Full-time positions also offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave and educational assistance.
Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.077 PTO balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive a minimum of 9 holidays annually.
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