# FinOps Engineer

> Weekday AI · Pune, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-06-25

**Salary:** INR 1,000,000–1,500,000

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

**This role is for one of the Weekday's clients**

**Salary range: Rs 1000000 - Rs 1500000 (ie INR 10-15 LPA)**

Experience: 3+ yrs

Location: Pune

Job Type: full-time

We are seeking a highly motivated FinOps Engineer with a strong DevOps and Cloud Engineering background to drive cloud cost optimization and financial accountability across a large-scale technology environment. This role is ideal for professionals who are passionate about identifying inefficiencies, eliminating cloud waste, and building a culture of cost-conscious engineering.

As a FinOps Engineer, you will work closely with Engineering, SRE, Product, and Finance teams to improve cloud resource utilization, optimize infrastructure spending, and implement cost governance strategies. You will play a critical role in ensuring that cloud investments align with business objectives while maintaining performance, scalability, and operational excellence across multi-cloud environments.

## Requirements

### Key Responsibilities

-   Continuously monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure costs across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
-   Identify idle, underutilized, or oversized resources and implement cost-saving recommendations.
-   Conduct regular cloud cost audits covering compute, storage, networking, databases, observability platforms, and third-party services.
-   Develop and maintain cloud cost visibility dashboards, reports, and forecasting models.
-   Lead cost optimization initiatives including rightsizing, autoscaling improvements, storage lifecycle management, and utilization reviews.
-   Implement and manage Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and other cloud pricing optimization strategies.
-   Build chargeback and showback models to improve spending transparency across teams.
-   Integrate cost governance controls into Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows.
-   Optimize Kubernetes environments through resource tuning, node optimization, autoscaling strategies, and cost management tools.
-   Establish automated monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting mechanisms for budget overruns and unexpected cloud spend.
-   Collaborate with Finance teams on budgeting, forecasting, cloud spend analysis, and unit economics reporting.
-   Drive cloud cost awareness through documentation, workshops, best practices, and engineering enablement initiatives.
-   Partner with technical teams to balance performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
-   Provide actionable insights and recommendations to leadership through periodic cost review meetings.

### What Makes You a Great Fit

-   3+ years of experience in FinOps, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related roles.
-   Strong expertise in cloud cost optimization and financial governance within AWS environments.
-   Hands-on experience with cloud billing analysis, cost reporting, and native cloud cost management tools.
-   Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar platforms.
-   Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized workloads in cloud environments.
-   Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
-   Knowledge of cloud pricing models including On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances.
-   Experience integrating cost controls into CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
-   Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.
-   Ability to communicate technical and financial insights effectively to both engineering and business stakeholders.
-   Familiarity with FinOps platforms such as Apptio, CloudHealth, Cloudability, Spot.io, Kubecost, or similar tools is an advantage.
-   Experience working in multi-cloud environments and understanding cloud financial management best practices.
-   FinOps certification and cloud platform certifications are desirable.
-   Self-driven, proactive, and highly detail-oriented with a strong focus on continuous improvement and operational efficiency.

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/4282266285/apply)

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