FinOps Engineer

SEI is seeking a FinOps Engineer to improve cost transparency, automation, accountability, and optimization across Azure, AWS, OCI, Snowflake, GitHub Copilot, Devin, and other SaaS and AI/token-based services. This role will build scalable FinOps practices that help workload teams understand and own their spend while aligning technology consumption to business value.

This is an engineering-aligned enablement role focused on tooling, reporting, automation, and governance.

Role Purpose

Operationalize enterprise FinOps capabilities that make cloud, data platform, developer productivity, and AI consumption visible, measurable, and accountable.

Guiding Principles

• Use automation, tooling, dashboards, alerts, and standards to scale cost management.
• Enable workload teams to understand, forecast, and own their spend.
• Reinforce FinOps as a shared responsibility across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Product, Business Management, and Leadership.

What You’ll Do

• Establish Cloud workload cost estimation, forecasting, budgeting, alerting, and spend review processes across SEI’s cloud, data, developer productivity, and AI platforms.
• Standardize Cloud and AI cost reporting, allocation, tagging, KPIs, showback/chargeback inputs, and GL mapping in partnership with Business Management and Finance.
• Identify spend anomalies, analyze cost drivers, track optimization opportunities, and coordinate remediation with accountable workload teams.
• Analyze reservations, savings plans, committed-use discounts, enterprise agreements, and usage trends to support Procurement, Finance, and Business Management decisions.
• Perform quarterly and annual reviews to identify cost trends, recurring issues, lessons learned, tooling gaps, and opportunities to improve automation, standards, and governance.

What We Would Like From You

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, FinOps, technology finance, analytics.
• Working knowledge of consumption-based cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, OCI, Snowflake, GitHub Copilot, AI/token-based services.
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management, billing, tagging, allocation, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and optimization.
• Billing data aggregation and normalization across providers to enable consistent dashboards and reporting.
• Technical ability to develop dashboard UI’s, reports, KPIs, and analytics using tools such as Power BI, SQL, Python, APIs, cloud-native cost tools, or data pipelines.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex usage and billing data into clear recommendations.

What We Need From You

• Engineering-oriented, analytical, automation-minded, and comfortable with evolving usage and billing data.
• Ability to influence without authority and guide teams toward cost-aware decisions.
• Collaborative across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Product, Business Management, and Leadership.
• Ability to work comfortably with a wide range of people and skill sets.
• Excellent problem solving skills with a focus on repeatable processes.