Senior Engineer – Cloud Finops

AHEAD, Gurugram, Haryana

The role

AHEAD is seeking a Senior Engineer – AWS to drive cloud cost efficiency, automation, and governance across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and GCP). This role is central to strengthening cost visibility, accountability, and optimization, while embedding automation and DevOps best practices across major public cloud platforms. The Senior Engineer will partner with cloud engineering and finance stakeholders to standardize tagging, build cost dashboards, develop automated workflows, and advance FinOps as a Service — integrating cloud cost management, CI/CD automation, and cost tracking to achieve operational excellence and financial transparency.

What you need

Qualifications

Minimum 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role.
Minimum 3+ years designing, securing, and deploying large-scale cloud applications and solutions.
Experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Operations, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including 1–2 years of FinOps or cloud cost optimization (AWS preferred).
Strong experience with AWS and Azure cost management, including tagging, cost allocation, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
Knowledge of Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, rightsizing, utilization optimization, and cloud cost governance.
Experience with Power BI, Kusto Query Language (KQL), Amazon CloudWatch, Python, and PowerShell.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep).
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and infrastructure automation.
Architect-level development skills in Python, PowerShell, Java, or similar programming languages.
Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
Strong networking knowledge, including VPCs/VNets, Subnets, Route Tables, Security Groups/NSGs, Load Balancers, VPNs, Network Connectivity, and Routing.
Strong Terraform development and modular infrastructure design experience.
Experience with AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, EKS, and other AWS native services.
Experience with multi-account AWS environments including AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs), Landing Zones, Account Vending, Baseline Configurations, and Guardrails.
Experience with DevOps platforms including Bitbucket (preferred), GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and GitLab CI/CD.
Experience with security and governance tools including Cloud Custodian, Trivy, SAST/DAST tools, Pre-commit Hooks, and other DevSecOps tools.
Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and remediation workflows.
Experience with secrets management solutions including AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, or equivalent.
Experience with monitoring and observability tools including Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, or similar platforms.
Experience with container security and image scanning for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.
Experience working in regulated environments including HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, or equivalent compliance frameworks.
Understanding of cloud data governance, data classification, and data protection.
Experience implementing cloud compliance, audit controls, and governance standards.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills.
Self-motivated, well-organized, able to manage multiple priorities, and willing to travel as required.

Performance Expectations Top Expectations for a Senior Engineer

Execute tagging, cost optimization, and reporting activities under senior guidance.
Maintain accurate dashboards and deliver actionable insights to stakeholders.
Assist in implementing policy-as-code, automation scripts, and cost-saving recommendations.
Increase cost awareness among engineering teams and help embed FinOps principles.
Create and maintain standard operating procedures and playbooks for recurring tasks.
Demonstrate proven skills across multiple billable technologies, validated through certification, training, or demonstrated ability.
Serve as a recognized subject-matter expert within your professional discipline.
Contribute to more complex and critical environments, often exceeding the expectations of your current job title.

Architect Skills

Demonstrate depth and expertise across at least one core technology.
Architect and lead the deployment of moderately complex cloud solutions.
Understand the performance, scaling, and functional characteristics of software technologies.
Understand open-source and cloud use cases and recommend standard design patterns and best practices.

Senior Engineer – Cloud Finops

The role

Senior Engineer – Cloud Finops

The role

What you need

Qualifications

Architect Skills

Nice to have

Cost Visibility & Allocation

Optimization & Engineering

Operate & Partner

Cost & Governance

Observability & Data

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Cloud Services Exposure

Lead vs. Contribute

Certifications and Goals

Communication (Verbal and Written)

Leadership and Influence

Culture

Why AHEAD

India Employment Benefits include

About AHEAD

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