Tech Growth Sphere Hiring! Part Time Cloud FinOps Analyst - Cloud Cost Analyst - FinOps Engineer in - Ricebowl

Helps the organization understand and manage its cloud spending while ensuring that cloud resources are used efficiently and provide appropriate business value. Works with finance, engineering, product, procurement, and cloud operations teams to connect usage with applications, services, and business units. Analyzes billing and consumption data, explains cost trends, investigates unexpected changes, and identifies opportunities to reduce waste or improve resource utilization.

A Cloud Cost Analyst focuses on billing, usage, budgets, forecasts, and cost allocation. Prepares reports and dashboards that show how cloud costs are distributed and changing over time. A FinOps Analyst combines financial and cloud data to help teams plan spending, evaluate options, and track savings. A FinOps Engineer builds automation and technical controls that integrate cost management into cloud operations and software delivery.

Reviews cloud resource configurations and usage to identify idle, underused, or oversized services. Assesses options such as adjusting compute capacity, scheduling non-production environments, optimizing storage and data transfer, selecting more suitable services, and evaluating commitment or discount plans. Partners with technical teams to ensure proposed changes meet requirements for performance, reliability, security, and availability.

Develops or improves cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, alerting, forecasting, and showback or chargeback practices. Helps teams make cloud costs visible during planning and development, and supports cost reviews for products and workloads. Tracks optimization actions and validates outcomes after implementation, checks for unintended effects, and documents expected and realized savings. May also contribute to FinOps training, policy development, cloud governance, and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered
• Experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, financial analysis, cloud operations, platform engineering, or DevOps
• Familiarity with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or another major cloud platform
• Understanding of cloud billing, consumption-based pricing, resource usage, and cost allocation
• Strong analytical skills and ability to investigate large cost and usage datasets
• Proficiency with spreadsheets; SQL, Python, or scripting experience is an asset
• Familiarity with provider billing tools or cloud cost management platforms is beneficial
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage, networking, databases, containers, and managed services
• Ability to explain cost drivers and optimization options to finance, engineering, and business teams
• Experience with tagging standards, budgets, forecasts, alerts, and showback or chargeback is an asset
• Knowledge of cloud commitments, reserved capacity, savings plans, licensing, and pricing models is beneficial
• Strong communication, documentation, and project coordination skills
• Ability to evaluate cost alongside performance, reliability, security, and operational needs
• FinOps, cloud provider, finance, or engineering certifications are an asset
• Experience building cost automation or integrating cost controls into engineering workflows is beneficial for FinOps Engineer roles