FinOps Engineer

Summary

Join The Duckbill Group as a full-time FinOps Engineer and help clients optimize their AWS spending. You will work closely with executives and engineers, identifying cost reduction opportunities and building cost forecasting models. This role requires strong AWS expertise, excellent communication skills, and experience in a client-facing consulting environment. The company offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits including fully covered health insurance and a generous 401k contribution, and a remote work environment. You will gain extensive experience across a wide range of AWS environments. The Duckbill Group is a small, scrappy company with a focus on growth and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of AWS concepts, tools, and services
• Prior experience communicating effectively with executive audiences
• Prior experience in AWS cost management
• Prior experience working in a consultative, client-facing role
• Must be US-based and legally authorized to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Help our clients understand and optimize their AWS spend
• Identify cost reduction opportunities at an architectural level
• Build cost forecasting models
• Create better governance and cost management controls
• Assess clients' own cost management programs
• Continuously identify better ways to serve our clients
• Work closely with executives and engineers from our clients
• Lead projects on some of the largest, most complicated AWS environments
• Communicate effectively to both executive and engineering audiences
• Work with a high degree of autonomy, often running engagements by yourself
• Communicate across multiple teams at our clients, from Engineering to Finance, and up to C-suite staff
• Work directly with clients to help them understand their AWS spend and optimize it based on their unique architecture and desired business outcomes
• Keep up to date on the latest AWS news and changes and continually work at being an expert in all-things-AWS
• Take a data-driven approach to cost management

Preferred Qualifications

Experience from an Engineering/SRE/DevOps background and a finance/business background

Benefits

• Salary range is $150,000 to $250,000, depending on experience
• 401(k) with a company contribution of 6% of your salary that vests immediately
• Healthcare, vision, and dental with premiums fully covered by the company. Dependents are covered 50%
• 4 weeks of PTO that accrue monthly, plus unlimited sick leave
• Company closes for the last week of the year, providing an additional week of paid time off
• Remote work