Summary
A cloud-first technology organization is looking for a senior Staff-level FinOps Engineer to establish and evolve engineering cost management at scale. You will combine deep infrastructure expertise with financial insight to build systems, automation, operational data, and governance that help engineering teams understand, manage, and optimize cloud and platform spending. This influential individual contributor role is suited to someone who has previously introduced, driven, or matured FinOps practices within an engineering organization and is ready to shape a capability rather than simply consume existing reports.
Highlights
High-impact individual contributor role with significant ownership in building and maturing an engineering cost management capability. Opportunity to combine infrastructure expertise and financial insight, shape FinOps practices from the ground up, and work closely with engineering, finance, procurement, and technical leadership.
Description
An innovative, cloud-first technology organization is seeking a senior engineering professional to establish and evolve its engineering cost management capability.
This is a highly influential individual contributor opportunity where you'll combine deep infrastructure expertise with financial insight to create the technical foundations that enable engineering teams to understand, manage, and optimize cloud and platform spending at scale.
Rather than joining an existing FinOps practice, you'll be instrumental in shaping one.
Working across Platform Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and technical leadership, you'll develop the systems, automation, and governance needed to transform engineering spend into meaningful operational data.
This position is ideal for someone with a strong technical background who has previously played a significant role in introducing, driving, or maturing FinOps practices within an engineering organization—not simply consuming existing reporting, but helping define how engineering cost management operates.
Required Skills & Experience
Extensive hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Engineering, with expert-level knowledge of AWS or another large-scale public cloud environment.
Demonstrated experience acting as a key contributor, technical champion, or founding voice in the adoption and implementation of FinOps practices, including influencing engineering teams, establishing cost accountability, and embedding cost-conscious engineering principles into day-to-day operations.
Proven ability to build technical solutions that improve financial visibility across engineering environments, including automation, telemetry, tagging strategies, reporting, cost attribution, and scalable data models that support engineering and business decision-making.
Desired Skills & Experience
Experience designing service costing methodologies such as showback, chargeback, unit economics, or cost allocation frameworks for shared engineering platforms.
Familiarity with cloud financial management platforms including CloudZero, CloudHealth, Apptio, or comparable FinOps tooling.
Experience partnering with Finance and Procurement on forecasting, software and infrastructure vendor analysis, commercial optimization, capacity planning, and governance of engineering-controlled technology investments.
Daily Responsibilities
Hands-On Engineering: 65% Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 35%
You Will Receive The Following Benefits
Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Vacation Time
Current Vacancy: Yes
Use of AI in Hiring: No
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis now and in the future.
Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment’s Employment Accommodation policy.
Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.
Posted By: Adrian Cronk
