Senior FinOps Engineer
Overview
Senior FinOps Engineer
We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.
At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:
- Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
- Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
- Life insurance financed by the employer
- 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
- Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
- Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
- Wellbeing programme for employees
- Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
- Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
- Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
- Employee referral programme
What's the job?
About the role
We are looking for a Senior FinOps Engineer to support and lead cloud cost management, optimisation, and reporting initiatives across our engineering platforms and cloud environments. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Finance, and Procurement teams to improve cost visibility, forecasting, and operational efficiency across the organisation.
In this role, you will help drive cloud cost optimisation activities, analyse cloud usage and spend, and support teams in making data-driven decisions. You will also contribute to the development of dashboards, KPIs, forecasting models, and reporting solutions that provide clear insights into cloud consumption and financial performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of cost and forecasting models to provide clear insights into current and future cloud spend.
- Work closely with Engineering and Product teams to accurately allocate cloud costs across teams, products, and platforms, support forecasting activities, and identify key cost drivers.
- Partner with Engineering teams to ensure effective tagging and alerting strategies are implemented to improve cost visibility, governance, and management of deviations from planned spend.
- Identify relevant data sources contributing to total cost of ownership calculations and support the design and implementation of solutions incorporating this data into reporting and analysis processes.
- Drive cloud cost optimisation initiatives by recommending reserved instances and savings plans, identifying rightsizing opportunities, and reducing unnecessary spend across cloud environments.
- Develop requirements for, build, maintain, and continuously improve real-time cloud cost dashboards, forecasting tools, and monthly reporting solutions.
- Own and maintain Cloud Cost KPIs, scorecards, and standard reporting metrics across the organisation.
- Create and deliver dashboards and data visualisations that provide clear insights into cloud usage, consumption trends, and financial performance.
What you'll bring
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, Finance, Procurement, and wider business teams.
- Proven experience performing detailed cloud cost analysis and developing custom reporting solutions and dashboards, including Power BI reporting.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify, recommend, and drive cloud cost optimisation initiatives.
- Solid understanding of working with large datasets, analysing cloud usage data, and database queries to support data-driven decision-making.
- Strong knowledge of Public Cloud platforms and services, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as DevSecOps practices such as CI/CD and automation.
- Ability to communicate complex technical and financial information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in fast-paced and collaborative engineering environments with a focus on continuous improvement and operational efficiency.
- Excellent command of English (written and spoken).
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Kingfisher plc