DE-Cloud FinOps Engineer -GDSN02

The opportunity

We are the only professional services organization who has a separate business dedicated exclusively to the financial services marketplace. Join Digital Engineering Team and you will work with multi-disciplinary teams from around the world to deliver a global perspective. Aligned to key industry groups including Asset management, Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance and Private Equity, Health, Government, Power and Utilities, we provide integrated advisory, assurance, tax, and transaction services. Through diverse experiences, world-class learning and individually tailored coaching you will experience ongoing professional development. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well, this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a l

Your role will be a Technology Lead, or Senior Technology Lead in the Cloud Engineering team. You will be responsible to be a part of the delivery of IT projects for our customers across the globe.

Your key responsibilities

•  Driving Cloud Optimization: Partner with engineering to analyze workload performance and costs, leading initiatives to right size and re-architect cloud environments for peak efficiency.
•  Managing Rate Optimization: Strategically manage and adopt rate optimization strategies (RIs, SPs, CUDs) with procurement and finance to secure significant savings.
•  Delivering Financial Insights: Develop advanced analytics on cloud cost data for precise forecasting, budgeting, and anomaly detection.
•  Chargeback/Showback: Improve and maintain models that clearly attribute cloud spend, enhancing accountability and financial alignment.
•  Ensuring Financial Accuracy: Oversee cloud invoice reconciliation, allocations, and amortization with finance and accounting teams.
•  Embedding FinOps Culture: Lead cross-functional efforts to integrate cost-awareness into engineering design and development workflows.
•  Empowering Self-Service: Build dashboards and integrate FinOps KPIs for self-service analytics across engineering and finance.
•  Overseeing FinOps Tools / Custom tools: Act as the subject matter expert for third-party FinOps tooling, managing vendors and optimizing features for business outcomes.
•  Responsible for implementation of Cost Optimization automation themes.

Skills and attributes for success

•  Deep Cloud Cost Expertise: Proven experience in cloud workload and rate optimization across AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a history of driving significant savings.
•  Advanced FinOps Knowledge: Strong understanding of cloud cost allocation models, tagging, and FinOps Framework capabilities (Reporting & Analytics, Workload Optimization, Invoicing & Chargeback, Organizational Alignment).
•  Data & Platform Fluency: Hands-on experience with large-scale cloud billing data (FOCUS or similar) and proficiency in data tooling (SQL, Looker, Power BI, Tableau, BigQuery, Snowflake).
•  Bilingual Communication: Fluent in both technical cloud architecture and financial (FP&A) language for effective cross-functional collaboration.
•  Architectural Awareness: Solid understanding of cloud architecture patterns (containers, serverless, autoscaling) and their cost impact.
•  Financial Process Savvy: Comfortable with financial close processes, invoice reconciliation, and cloud cost forecasting.
•  Proven Influencer: A track record of successfully influencing diverse stakeholders to adopt FinOps best practices and metrics.
•  FinOps Community Engagement: FinOps (Practitioner, Professional, FOCUS Analyst) and Cloud Vendor Certifications Preferably Azure. Active community participation is a strong plus.

To qualify for the role, you must have

•  BE/B.Tech/MCA with a sound industry experience of 6 to 8 years
•  Cloud Computing knowledge in multi cloud environments (Azure,AWS & GCP)
•  Implementing and managing FinOps tools and custom tools
•  Experience in applying cost specific Azure policy to the resource for cost governance
•  Hands-on experience with Azure / AWS / GCP Infrastructure Services
•  Scripting Knowledge on Python and cloud native CLIs
•  Must be good in IAC tools such as Terraform

Preferred Skills

•  FinOps Practitioner Certification
•  FinOps Engineer Certification (Good to have)
•  Microsoft Certified: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305)
•  AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
•  Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)
•  Good to have knowledge in Terraform Cloud, Ansible Tower

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

•  Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
•  Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
•  Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
•  Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

► SDLC Methodologies: Agile /Scrum

► Version Control Tools – GitHub/ Bitbucket/GitLab

► CI/CD Automation Tools – Azure DevOps/ Bamboo/ Team City/ Harness/ Octopus

► Container Management Tools – Docker/Kubernetes/Docker Swarm

► Application Performance Management Tools – Prometheus/ Dynatrace/ AppDynamics

► Monitoring Tools – Splunk/ Datadog/ Grafana

► IAC Tools – Terraform/ARM Templates/ Bicep

► Config Management Tools – Chef/ puppet/ Ansible

► Test Automation Tools – Selenium/Cucumber

► Artifact Management Tools – Jfrog Artifactory/Nexus/CloudRepo/Azure Artifactory

► Scripting – Python/Groovy/PowerShell/Shell Scripting

► SAST/ DAST: SonarQube / Veracode/ Fortify

► GitOps Tool – Argo CD/ Flux CD

► GenAI Technology – Chat GPT, OpenAI

What we look for

► Has successfully demonstrated CI/CD Automation skills and technologies during many relevant projects

► Strong experience in the use of DevOps Tools and technologies, including container technologies.

► Proven experience in Infrastructure Automation (IAC Tools + Config Mgmt. Tool) and experience in Application Automation using Azure DevOps

► Working experience in Azure and strong knowledge in cloud Architecture strategy.

► Good Exposure in Cloud and Container Monitoring and logging and troubleshooting.

► Strong understanding of Cloud related concepts and technologies, and maintains an in-depth knowledge of the area

► Experience designing and conducting research and experiments with recently developed technologies

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland, and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies, and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills, and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.

• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.