Job Summary
FinOps Practitioner (L3) with 9+ years of experience in cloud operations, cloud financial management, cost optimization, and governance across AWS, GCP, Azure, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments. Responsible for cloud cost visibility, forecasting, allocation, rightsizing, optimization, anomaly management, commitment planning, FinOps governance, reporting, and driving cost accountability across technology and business teams.
Key Responsibilities
Lead FinOps and Cloud Cost Optimization activities across hybrid/multi-cloud environments. Monitor and analyze cloud consumption, spend, utilization, and cost trends. Identify and drive rightsizing, resource optimization, and waste-elimination opportunities. Manage optimization recommendations for Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and committed-use models. Drive cloud cost allocation, tagging standards, showback/chargeback, and governance. Monitor cost anomalies and coordinate remediation with Cloud and Application teams. Conduct periodic cloud-spend reviews and provide actionable optimization recommendations. Develop and maintain FinOps dashboards, reports, KPIs, and cloud-cost insights. Partner with Cloud Engineering, Application, Finance, Procurement, and business teams to improve cost accountability. Support budgeting, forecasting, capacity planning, and cloud-consumption analysis. Identify underutilized, idle, and overprovisioned cloud resources and recommend corrective actions. Support license and SaaS optimization initiatives. Establish and improve FinOps processes, governance controls, and operational standards. Support automation of cloud-cost reporting, tagging, anomaly detection, and optimization workflows. Provide L3/SME guidance on cloud financial management and cost-optimization initiatives. The cloud cost monitoring, rightsizing, optimization, commitment management, tagging, anomaly remediation, spend review, and license optimization responsibilities
Skill Requirements
Strong experience in FinOps / Cloud Financial Management and Cloud Cost Optimization. Strong knowledge of AWS, GCP and/or Microsoft Azure cloud-cost and consumption models. Experience with cost monitoring, allocation, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, and optimization. Strong understanding of rightsizing, waste elimination, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and commitment optimization. Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud cost-management practices. HCLTech\'s FinOps material explicitly covers AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware-on-cloud, and on-premises hybrid integration. Experience with FinOps reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and utilization analysis. Understanding of showback/chargeback and cloud cost-allocation models. Experience identifying cost anomalies and coordinating remediation. Knowledge of cloud architecture, infrastructure, containers, and platform services sufficient to assess cost drivers and optimization opportunities. Strong analytical skills using Microsoft Excel and/or BI/reporting tools. Understanding of automation and APIs for cost-reporting and governance use cases. Strong stakeholder-management skills with the ability to work across Technology, Finance, Procurement, and Business teams. FinOps Certified Practitioner/Professional or equivalent cloud certification preferred.
Other Requirements
NA