Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Principal Financial Group is seeking a skilled FinOps Cloud Engineer to join their Information Services team, playing a key role in managing and optimizing cloud costs across the organization. This position involves developing solutions to enhance cloud financial management, improve cost transparency, and support decision-making for technology choices.
Responsibilities
- Monitor, analyze, and report on cloud spend across platforms (currently this includes AWS & Azure)
- Identify cost-saving opportunities through rightsizing, scheduling, and purchasing strategies (e.g., Reserved Instances, Savings Plans)
- Build and maintain dashboards and reports to provide visibility into cloud usage and costs
- Translate complex billing data into actionable insights for engineering, finance, and leadership teams
- Partner with engineering, finance, procurement, and product teams to align cloud usage with business goals
- Educate teams on cost-aware architecture and usage patterns
- Help define and enforce cloud cost governance policies and tagging standards
- Support compliance with internal and external financial controls
- Implement and maintain FinOps tooling
- Automate cost tracking, anomaly detection, and budget alerts
- Assist in forecasting cloud spend and aligning budgets with usage trends
- Provide input into financial planning and scenario modeling
- Contribute to the evolution of the FinOps practice by identifying process improvements and scaling strategies
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices in cloud financial management
- Participate in vendor negotiations and evaluate pricing models for cloud services
Skills
- Associate's or bachelor's degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field) and 3+ years work experience or equivalent experience
- Strong understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP billing and pricing models
- Proficient with Typescript and/or Python
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK/CloudFormation)
- Familiarity with FinOps principles and frameworks
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Must have the desire and ability to learn new technology and continuously grow
- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
- Experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud financial management, or FinOps
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, QuickSight)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized workloads on AWS (e.g., EKS)
- Background in finance, accounting, or business analytics
Benefits
- Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program.
- Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance.
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness.
- Pension Eligible
- In-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, Raleigh, NC, or Charlotte, NC).
- Work Authorization/Sponsorship: At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role.
- Comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being.
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