FinOps Practitioner

Your Impact

Analyze on-demand cloud spend patterns and strategically apply Reservations (RIs), Savings Plans (SPs), and Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) to maximize coverage while minimizing risk of overcommitment or unused capacity. Lead dedicated monthly reviews with Engineering, Product Management, and Finance teams to advance FinOps principles, incorporating FinOps deliverables into roadmaps and helping guide engineers to solve FinOps problems based on risk and business value. Partner closely with Cloud Architecture, Product, and Engineering teams to understand architecture strategy and identify optimization opportunities that materially impact Splunk’s operating margins. Create dashboards, metrics, and reporting to enable cost visibility and accountability across the organization, relied on by hundreds of engineers spanning multiple products. Monitor daily cloud spend and investigate anomalies that create variances from forecasts, while continuously identifying, developing, and improving the FinOps metrics used across the business.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 – 5+ years of hands-on AWS cost management expertise required, with additional Azure or GCP knowledge preferred.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Experience FinOps or cloud financial management role at a company with eight to nine figure annual cloud spend.
• Deep knowledge of cloud billing models, including hands-on purchasing and management of Reservations (RIs), Committed Use Discounts (CUDs), and Savings Plans (SPs).
• Advanced data analysis and Excel/Google Sheets proficiency, including pivot tables, complex formulas, and data visualization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with programming languages such as Python or GoLang preferred.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional FinOps initiatives that deliver measurable cost savings.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure architecture, software engineering, SRE, or DevOps practices.
• Strong proficiency with cloud cost management tooling platforms such as CloudZero, CloudHealth, or Cloudability.
• Skilled in creating dashboards and reports to support monthly reviews, track key KPIs, and drive cost visibility through actionable metrics.