Staff Engineer, Finops & Sre

circles.co

Hybrid
Finops certified practitioner or willingness to get certified
8+ years experience with 5+ in finops/sre
Kubernetes and end-to-end observability expertise
This role serves as a bridge between engineering and finance teams to translate technical deployments into financial impact through cloud cost governance

Job Summary

  • This role serves as a bridge between engineering and finance teams to translate technical deployments into financial impact through cloud cost governance.
  • The successful candidate will build real-time dashboards for cost visibility and define tagging, budgeting, and allocation strategies across multiple cloud accounts.
  • You will partner with engineering to identify right-sizing opportunities and implement automated scaling policies to optimize EC2, RDS, and EKS spend.

Matching Summary

This role serves as a bridge between engineering and finance teams to translate technical deployments into financial impact through cloud cost governance.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • FinOps Certified Practitioner or willingness to get certified
  • 8+ years experience with 5+ in FinOps/SRE
  • Kubernetes and end-to-end observability expertise
  • Python programming for FinOps automation
  • GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Kubernetes

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with IBM Cloudability or Wiv.ai
  • Harness or Kubecost expertise
  • Multi-cloud environment exposure (AWS, OCI, GCP)
  • On-premises and hybrid architecture knowledge
  • Mentoring junior engineers in SRE culture

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT/Computer Science
  • 8+ years total experience with majority in FinOps/SRE
  • FinOps Certified Practitioner certification required or willingness to obtain
  • Strong Python programming skills for automation
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and GitLab pipelines

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