- Texas City, Texas, United States
- Senior
- 4+ years
Senior FinOps Analyst advising R&D teams on cloud cost management and optimization across APAC and overlapping US time zones.
Compensation
Competitive compensation: USD-based pay with education, fitness, and team activity budgets.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary point of contact for R&D teams seeking cloud cost guidance, triaging and answering inbound questions in real time via Slack and other asynchronous channels.
- Conduct proactive, consultative engagement with key spending teams, especially APAC-based colleagues, to review monthly cloud spending, surface actionable cost opportunities, and understand upcoming engineering roadmap delivery plans.
- Proactively monitor cloud and AI/LLM spend for anomalies, cost spikes, and inefficiency patterns; conduct structured investigations into flagged variances, produce written root‑cause analyses, and deliver actionable optimization recommendations.
- Participate in the monthly forecasting cycle, engaging directly with assigned R&D teams to align central forecasts with team‑level projections and document team plans and intent for upcoming spend.
- Contribute a FinOps practitioner perspective and team‑sourced information, including AI/LLM cost drivers, to showback reporting and top spending R&D team meetings.
Requirements
- Nice to have: AI/LLM governance
- Nice to have: AI/LLM variable cost management