Role Description
The Cloud Engineer / Cloud Architect / Cloud FinOps Analyst supports cloud services that balance business requirements, reliability, security, and cost. Responsibilities include assessing workloads, improving infrastructure, monitoring performance or expenditure, and collaborating with technical and business teams.
The Cloud Engineer builds and maintains cloud infrastructure and automation. The Cloud Architect defines solution designs and migration approaches, while the Cloud FinOps Analyst analyses usage, allocates costs, forecasts spending, and recommends optimisation opportunities alongside service requirements.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, Analytics, or a related field appropriate to the position, or equivalent experience.
- Relevant experience in cloud engineering, architecture, cloud financial management, or cost analysis.
- Understanding of cloud compute, storage, networking, security, and consumption-based pricing.
- Familiarity with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or a comparable platform.
- Ability to analyse technical or financial information and explain practical recommendations.
- Strong collaboration, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
- For engineer positions, experience with scripting, infrastructure as code, monitoring, deployments, and troubleshooting.
- For architect positions, experience designing scalable solutions, planning migrations, and evaluating security, resilience, and cost trade-offs.
- For FinOps positions, proficiency in Excel, SQL, cost reporting, allocation methods, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Relevant cloud or FinOps certification is advantageous, alongside the ability to evaluate resource efficiency and business value.