Intermediate FinOps Analyst

About the role

In this role, you will help organizations across industries take control of their cloud spend by establishing FinOps as a business discipline. You will work within SoftServe’s FinOps practice, delivering structured client engagements that move from cost visibility and savings identification to full governance and operating model implementation.

Responsibilities

• Monitor Cloud spend and perform cost anomaly detection, investigation, and resolution across accounts and services
• Conduct root cause analysis on cost variances and unexpected spend spikes, providing actionable recommendations to engineering and business teams
• Identify and coordinate implementation of cost optimization opportunities including rightsizing, reserved instance planning, savings plans, and idle resource elimination
• Develop and maintain robust BI dashboards and reports to support chargeback, showback, and cost allocation visibility across teams and business units
• Leverage Cloud Cost Tools for cost tracking, tagging compliance, allocation reporting, and budget forecasting
• Ensure consistent tagging governance across Cloud resources to enable accurate cost distribution and chargeback
• Collaborate with Finance and Business teams to align cloud spend with budgets and forecasts
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure data accuracy, quality, and availability.
• Document business requirements, process flows, and reporting specifications.
• Support ad‑hoc analysis and provide clear, concise data-driven recommendations.
• Prepare and deliver clear, executive-ready PowerPoint presentations summarizing cost trends, anomalies, optimization outcomes, and FinOps KPIs
• Support onboarding of new teams to DataBricks and other Cloud providers by providing cost estimates, sizing guidance, and tagging requirements

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in FinOps, Cloud Cost Management, or Cloud Analytics role
• Hands-on experience with AWS cost management tools (Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, Cost and Usage Reports),
• Mandatory practical knowledge of Databricks, including its usage patterns, and cost management
• SQL Proficiency for querying cost and usage datasets
• Advanced BI development skills — including data modeling and dashboard design
• Strong ability to build polished PowerPoint presentations for both technical and executive audiences
• Experience with cost anomaly detection and root cause analysis in complex, multi-cloud environments
• Solid understanding of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Databricks on AWS, etc.) and their cost drivers, DataBricks
• Experience with AWS, Databricks cost management and usage based charge back models; familiarity with GCP cost management is a plus but not mandatory
• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey technical findings to non-technical stakeholders

SoftServe is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, citizenship, disability, health condition, marital or family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.