Cloud FinOps Engineer

Location: Melbourne CBD / Hybrid

Clearance: Must be eligible for Baseline Security Clearance The Role

We’re looking for a Cloud FinOps Engineer to help manage and optimise cloud spend across AWS and Azure.

Working closely with engineering, operations and finance teams, you’ll improve cloud cost visibility, identify optimisation opportunities and establish FinOps practices across a large-scale cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Monitor and optimise AWS and Azure cloud spend.
- Build dashboards and reporting around cloud usage, costs and trends.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities and drive optimisation initiatives.
- Implement FinOps practices across budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation and chargebacks.
- Establish cloud cost governance and financial accountability.
- Partner with engineering and finance teams on budgets and cloud consumption.
- Use tools including AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management and CloudHealth.
- Automate cost reporting,



alerts and optimisation using scripting and APIs.
- Provide cloud financial reporting and insights to technical and senior stakeholders.

About You
- 3+ years' experience across Cloud FinOps, cloud cost management or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure.
- Hands-on cloud cost optimisation and financial reporting experience.
- Experience with AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, CloudHealth or similar.
- Solid understanding of cloud budgeting, forecasting and cost allocation.
- Comfortable working across engineering, operations and finance teams.

Nice to Have
- FinOps certification.
- Terraform or CloudFormation experience.
- Python or Shell scripting experience.
- Experience automating cloud cost management processes.

Baseline Security Clearance eligibility is required.

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