{"id":1124640,"url":"https://alion.io/job/daylight-cloud-finops-engineer","title":"Cloud FinOps Engineer","company":{"id":35979,"name":"Daylight","domain":"daylight.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/daylight","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Tel Aviv, Israel"],"countries":["IL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":false},{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"GitOps","optional":false},{"name":"Karpenter","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T19:42:36Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T15:13:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Daylight is a security services company delivering Managed Agentic Security Services (MASS), including MDR, threat hunting, security data lake, and more, through a fundamentally different architecture than traditional security services providers.\nDaylight's architecture combines an agentic platform that runs the full cycle from detection to response with security experts from IR and threat hunting backgrounds. The platform collects identity and business context across systems to investigate alerts and continuously learns your environment. Security experts validate decisions, feed insights into the platform, optimize detections, and take over in case of an incident.\nThe result: security teams move from firefighting to strategic work.\nWe’re looking for a Cloud FinOps Engineer to own and drive cloud cost optimization across Daylight’s infrastructure. You’ll work hands-on across AWS, Kubernetes, and our data and observability stack to improve efficiency, optimize cloud spend, and build the tooling and processes that help us scale sustainably.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn cloud cost as a metric: define, instrument, and report unit economics such as cost per tenant, per GB ingested, and per environment, and drive them down quarter over quarter\nBuild cost visibility through tagging and allocation standards, showback across teams and customers, budgets, anomaly detection, and dashboards people actually open\nFind and land savings across compute right-sizing, Karpenter and Spot strategy, commitment coverage, storage lifecycle policies, networking and data transfer, and the long tail of idle resources\nOptimize the cost of our data and observability layers, including streaming ingestion, the data lake and warehouse, and the observability pipeline\nShift cost left by putting estimates into pull requests and IaC review, so engineers see the price of a change before it ships rather than in next month's bill\nBuild and maintain infrastructure as code, our GitOps delivery pipeline, and Kubernetes platform work alongside the rest of the team, and participate in on-call\nPartner with Engineering, Finance, and leadership on forecasting, vendor and contract renewals, and capacity planning\nWhat we're looking for\n4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, with hands-on responsibility for production workloads on AWS.\nStrong Kubernetes experience, ideally with EKS, including autoscaling and workload right-sizing.\nStrong Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform, with experience working in GitOps-style environments.\nScripting or development experience in Go, Python, or a similar language, with the ability to automate analysis and build internal tooling.\nProven ownership of cloud cost optimization initiatives, with measurable results.\nStrong understanding of AWS billing and cost management, including Cost Explorer, CUR, allocation tags, and commitment models.\nComfortable working in an AI-native environment, using AI tools as part of your day-to-day workflow.\nAble to work independently in a small, fast-moving team and take a problem from initial identification through implementation.\nWhy this role\nYou’ll be the first person at Daylight to own FinOps, so you’ll be building the practice rather than inheriting one. Our infrastructure is modern and fully codified - Terraform, ArgoCD, EKS, and Karpenter - giving you the opportunity to focus on meaningful optimization from day one.\nAt our stage of growth, the decisions you make now will directly shape our infrastructure efficiency and cost structure as we scale.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3558,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Security Operations","Managed Security","Cybersecurity AI"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-22T20:45:19Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":44,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/daylight-cloud-finops-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/daylight-cloud-finops-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T18:28:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}