Cloud Engineer - Cost Governance DevOps Engineer
Apply NowCompany: MatchPoint Solutions
Location: Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Description:
MatchPoint Solutions is a fast-growing, young, energetic global IT-Engineering services company with clients across the US. We provide technology solutions to various clients like Uber, Robinhood, Netflix, Airbnb, Google, Sephora, and more! More recently, we have expanded to working internationally in Canada, China, Ireland, UK, Brazil, and India. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome. We keep our clients on the cutting edge of the latest technologies and provide solutions by using industry-specific best practices and expertise. We are excited to be continuously expanding our team. If you are interested in this position, please send over your updated resume. We look forward to hearing from you!
Job Description:
Cloud Engineer - Cost Governance DevOps Engineer
Hybrid : Sunnyvael, SFO, Seattle
Pay rate: 80-90/hr ( DOE)
About the Role:
We are seeking a seasoned Cost Governance DevOps Engineer to join our team. This critical role focuses on optimizing cloud resources, managing cloud-related costs, and ensuring efficient financial operations. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in managing costs during cloud migrations, optimizing cloud spend, incident management, SLA monitoring, and driving cost-effective strategies across multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS, and OCI).
As part of this role, you will work at the intersection of finance and engineering, collaborating to ensure resource optimization and financial efficiency across our cloud infrastructure. Your contributions will directly impact our financial outcomes and operational performance as we transition from on-premise to the cloud.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with stakeholders, engineers, and finance teams to manage cloud-related finances.
Monitor and analyze cloud spend across GCP, AWS, and OCI and provide real-time insights through dashboards.
Work with engineers to optimize resource usage, ensuring services are turned off when no longer needed.
Contribute to building a recommender service at a project level to optimize costs and usage rates.
Help implement chargeback processes to track cost drivers and allocate expenses correctly.
Link activity into financial processes and cycles for example providing variance analysis to budgets during month-end reporting
Establish guardrails / policies to detect and remove usage waste.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
3+ years of experience in data analysis, data engineering, or a related role.
Experience with GCP, particularly BigQuery, Compute Engine, Dataflow, and SQL.
Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python or R.
Strong understanding of GCP Cloud fundamentals in FinOps to manage Cloud Budget, Forecast,
Spend monitoring, purchasing various Commitments, deriving Cloud Cost Optimisation across the Organisation
Strong understanding of FinOps principles, cloud governance, and financial optimization strategies.
Familiarity with chargeback processes and the ability to recommend cost-effective strategies.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
MatchPoint Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Job Description:
Cloud Engineer - Cost Governance DevOps Engineer
Hybrid : Sunnyvael, SFO, Seattle
Pay rate: 80-90/hr ( DOE)
About the Role:
We are seeking a seasoned Cost Governance DevOps Engineer to join our team. This critical role focuses on optimizing cloud resources, managing cloud-related costs, and ensuring efficient financial operations. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in managing costs during cloud migrations, optimizing cloud spend, incident management, SLA monitoring, and driving cost-effective strategies across multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS, and OCI).
As part of this role, you will work at the intersection of finance and engineering, collaborating to ensure resource optimization and financial efficiency across our cloud infrastructure. Your contributions will directly impact our financial outcomes and operational performance as we transition from on-premise to the cloud.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with stakeholders, engineers, and finance teams to manage cloud-related finances.
Monitor and analyze cloud spend across GCP, AWS, and OCI and provide real-time insights through dashboards.
Work with engineers to optimize resource usage, ensuring services are turned off when no longer needed.
Contribute to building a recommender service at a project level to optimize costs and usage rates.
Help implement chargeback processes to track cost drivers and allocate expenses correctly.
Link activity into financial processes and cycles for example providing variance analysis to budgets during month-end reporting
Establish guardrails / policies to detect and remove usage waste.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
3+ years of experience in data analysis, data engineering, or a related role.
Experience with GCP, particularly BigQuery, Compute Engine, Dataflow, and SQL.
Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python or R.
Strong understanding of GCP Cloud fundamentals in FinOps to manage Cloud Budget, Forecast,
Spend monitoring, purchasing various Commitments, deriving Cloud Cost Optimisation across the Organisation
Strong understanding of FinOps principles, cloud governance, and financial optimization strategies.
Familiarity with chargeback processes and the ability to recommend cost-effective strategies.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
MatchPoint Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.