FinOps Solution Architect — Malaysia
Experience: 6+ years
Location: Malaysia
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced FinOps Solution Architect to design and implement cloud financial management solutions across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP. The role will bridge cloud architecture, finance, and business teams to optimize cloud costs, improve financial visibility, and establish FinOps best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement FinOps operating models, processes, and governance frameworks.
- Architect solutions for cloud cost optimization, budgeting, forecasting, allocation, and chargeback/showback.
- Analyze cloud spending and identify opportunities for cost reduction and resource optimization.
- Work with Cloud, DevOps, Engineering, Finance, and Procurement teams to establish FinOps practices.
- Implement cost allocation, tagging, account/subscription structures, and financial reporting.
- Develop dashboards and KPIs for cloud spend, unit economics, utilization, and savings.
- Drive initiatives such as rightsizing, Reserved Instances/Savings Plans, commitment management, autoscaling, and workload optimization.
- Define architecture standards for multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud financial management.
- Automate FinOps processes using APIs, scripts, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
- Support governance, compliance, and cloud financial controls.
- Present recommendations and cost optimization roadmaps to senior stakeholders.
Required Skills
- 6+ years of experience in cloud, solution architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, IT financial management, or related areas.
- Strong experience with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
- Good understanding of FinOps Framework and cloud economics.
- Experience with cloud billing and cost-management tools such as:
- AWS Cost Explorer / Cost & Usage Reports
- Azure Cost Management
- Google Cloud Billing
- CloudHealth, Apptio, Cloudability, or similar tools
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, compute, storage, databases, networking, and cloud architecture.
- Experience with Terraform/IaC and automation.
- Knowledge of Power BI, Tableau, or similar BI tools is advantageous.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder-management, and communication skills.
Preferred Certifications
- FinOps Certified Practitioner / FinOps Certified Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Google Professional Cloud Architect
- ITIL / TOGAF is a plus