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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. As a Senior Engineer, you will bring deep, hands-on experience across open-source, enterprise, and cloud technologies, combined with a proven record of delivery. You are expected to lead engagements, demonstrate strong commercial awareness, and communicate maturely with stakeholders at all levels. You will design, develop, and deploy integration solutions with third-party tools, and will work directly with customer service owners, process owners, and delivery teams across engagements, demonstrations, and meetings. This role carries an expectation of occasional travel and after-hours/weekend support during major incidents, client change windows, or similar events.\nKey Responsibilities\nCost Visibility & Allocation\nMaintain and enhance cost allocation and chargeback models, budgets, and cost alerts across cloud accounts.\nImplement and enforce tagging and resource-hierarchy standards, ensuring greater than 90% coverage for cost-critical tags (app, environment, owner, cost center).\nDevelop and publish cost-visibility dashboards and reports using Power BI, native cloud tooling, or third-party FinOps platforms.\nSupport unified multi-cloud cost reporting to ensure transparency for engineering and finance teams.\nOptimization & Engineering\nExecute rightsizing and scheduling of cloud resources across AWS and Azure (EC2, RDS, S3, VMs, App Services, Storage, Networking).\nManage and optimize Reservations (RIs), Savings Plans, and Hybrid Benefits (AWS BYOL / Azure Hybrid Benefit).\nAssist in implementing policy-as-code using AWS Config, Azure Policy, Terraform, or Bicep, under senior guidance.\nParticipate in anomaly detection, spend forecasting, and automated remediation workflows.\nContribute to CI/CD pipeline management, infrastructure automation, and GitOps practices using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.\nOperate & Partner\nProvide actionable input during monthly cost and performance reviews with product and engineering stakeholders.\nPartner with Finance and Procurement teams on budgeting, forecasting, and billing validation.\nCollaborate with SRE and Platform teams to balance cost efficiency, reliability, and security.\nMaintain operational hygiene through scripting, tagging audits, and compliance automation.\nCore Technology Stack\nCost & Governance\nAWS: Cost Explorer, Budgets, Config, Organizations, Management Groups.\nAzure: Cost Management + Billing, Advisor, Policy.\nGCP: Billing Reports.\nFinOps Platforms: Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth, Kubecost, Harness CCM.\nObservability & Data\nAWS CloudWatch.\nAzure Monitor and Log Analytics.\nPower BI.\nAmazon QuickSight.\nInfrastructure as Code & Automation\nTerraform, Bicep, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible.\nAzure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab.\nAWS Lambda, Azure Functions, PowerShell, Python.\nCloud Services Exposure\n AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, EKS (basics), CloudTrail, CloudWatch.\n Azure: VMs, App Services, Storage, Azure SQL, AKS, Databricks (basics).\nGCP: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, GKE.\nNice-to-Have Tools\nApptio Cloudability, VMware Aria/CloudHealth, Kubecost, custom FinOps dashboards.\nQualifications\nMinimum 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role.\nMinimum 3+ years designing, securing, and deploying large-scale cloud applications and solutions.\nExperience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Operations, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including 1-2 years of FinOps or cloud cost optimization (AWS preferred).\nStrong experience with AWS and Azure cost management, including tagging, cost allocation, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.\nKnowledge of Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, rightsizing, utilization optimization, and cloud cost governance.\nExperience with Power BI, Kusto Query Language (KQL), Amazon CloudWatch, Python, and PowerShell.\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep).\nStrong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and infrastructure automation.\nArchitect-level development skills in Python, PowerShell, Java, or similar programming languages.\nSubject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).\nStrong networking knowledge, including VPCs/VNets, Subnets, Route Tables, Security Groups/NSGs, Load Balancers, VPNs, Network Connectivity, and Routing.\nStrong Terraform development and modular infrastructure design experience.\nExperience with AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, EKS, and other AWS native services.\nExperience with multi-account AWS environments including AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs), Landing Zones, Account Vending, Baseline Configurations, and Guardrails.\nExperience with DevOps platforms including Bitbucket (preferred), GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and GitLab CI/CD.\nExperience with security and governance tools including Cloud Custodian, Trivy, SAST/DAST tools, Pre-commit Hooks, and other DevSecOps tools.\nExperience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and remediation workflows.\nExperience with secrets management solutions including AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, or equivalent.\nExperience with monitoring and observability tools including Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, or similar platforms.\nExperience with container security and image scanning for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.\nExperience working in regulated environments including HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, or equivalent compliance frameworks.\nUnderstanding of cloud data governance, data classification, and data protection.\nExperience implementing cloud compliance, audit controls, and governance standards.\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.\nStrong project management, organizational, and communication skills.\nSelf-motivated, well-organized, able to manage multiple priorities, and willing to travel as required.\nPerformance Expectations\nTop Expectations for a Senior Engineer\nExecute tagging, cost optimization, and reporting activities under senior guidance.\nMaintain accurate dashboards and deliver actionable insights to stakeholders.\nAssist in implementing policy-as-code, automation scripts, and cost-saving recommendations.\nIncrease cost awareness among engineering teams and help embed FinOps principles.\nCreate and maintain standard operating procedures and playbooks for recurring tasks.\nDemonstrate proven skills across multiple billable technologies, validated through certification, training, or demonstrated ability.\nServe as a recognized subject-matter expert within your professional discipline.\nContribute to more complex and critical environments, often exceeding the expectations of your current job title.\nLead vs. Contribute\nParticipate in and help lead a team of technical delivery resources across skill sets to achieve customer business and technology goals.\nParticipate in and lead written deliverable creation across areas of expertise.\nProvide measurable input into AHEAD's products, processes, standards, and plans.\nProvide time estimates for work based on available information.\nCoordinate and contribute to cross-practice deliverables using current templates.\nAct as a self-starter in identifying work during non-scheduled hours; prioritize and complete tasks independently, on time or ahead of schedule.\nLead development and testing activities; contribute to refining methodology and best practices.\nInitiate and participate in authoring PCR requests when additional work is requested.\nArchitect Skills\nDemonstrate depth and expertise across at least one core technology.\nArchitect and lead the deployment of moderately complex cloud solutions.\nUnderstand the performance, scaling, and functional characteristics of software technologies.\nUnderstand open-source and cloud use cases and recommend standard design patterns and best practices.\nCertifications and Goals\nMaintain several relevant, higher-level certifications.\nConsistently meet goal objectives and exceed select goals.\nCommunication (Verbal and Written)\nCommunicate with external customers, including senior management, on matters requiring explanation, interpretation, or advisement.\nConsistently meet or exceed customer expectations for communication and commitments.\nWork effectively with outside vendors on internal or customer-related issues.\nParticipate in pre-sales activities, including scoping, positioning, and technology adoption/maturation.\nIdentify new client opportunities within the POD and communicate them to leadership, including the Team Lead.\nHelp customer leadership set strategic direction beyond tactics and technology.\nWrite and lead complex deliverables within the practice; translate customer requirements into technical requirements.\nLeadership and Influence\nWorks to influence direct team members, broader internal team, and external customers, to agree and accept new concepts, best practices, and approaches.\nAdvises and trains more junior staff via mentorship while helping to drive the entire AHEAD platform.\nA reliable resource for marketing on thought leadership pieces for their practice for AHEAD and our customers.\nHas started speaking at industry conferences and/or webinars.\nContributes to more complex workshops and understands how their area of expertise fits into our stitching message.\nAccepts responsibility for own actions and sometimes those of 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