Senior Cloud Engineer (FinOps)

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Job Title - Senior Cloud Engineer - FinOps

Description We are seeking a Lead FinOps Developer/Engineer – to builds and automates cloud cost-management capabilities. Work across engineering and operations to improve cloud visibility, enforce cost-allocation standards, identify waste, and embed cost accountability into development workflows that will help drive data-driven decision making across our enterprise cloud, infrastructure and platform operations.

The  Purpose  of Your Role This role will focus on building analytics solutions that provide visibility into cloud costs, infrastructure utilization, and platform usage patterns. The engineer will develop data pipelines, analytical models, and automated insights that connect cloud billing data, infrastructure telemetry, and business metrics. Working closely with Cloud Platform Engineering, SRE, and Product teams, this role will help the organization better understand how infrastructure usage and engineering decisions impact cloud spend and operational efficiency.

The Expertise We’re Looking for:

- Proven ability to build scalable analytics datasets, data models, and reporting frameworks for cloud, infrastructure, and financial analysis.

- Advanced proficiency in automation, including development of scripts, APIs, data processing pipelines, and workflow automation solutions.

- Strong expertise in cloud cost management, FinOps practices, and infrastructure cost optimization across multi-cloud environments.

- Strong analytical skills with experience examining cloud consumption, billing, usage, and resource inventory data to identify trends, anomalies, and optimization opportunities.

- Hands-on experience with SQL and large-scale data analysis for cost attribution, utilization tracking, and operational insights.

- Understanding of cloud services and their cost drivers, including compute, storage, networking, databases, observability, serverless, and managed platforms.

- Experience developing analytical models that correlate infrastructure utilization, operational metrics, business activity, and unit economics.

- Knowledge with cloud billing, cost management, and REST APIs to integrate, enrich, and automate cost and usage analysis.

- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern DevOps practices, including Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, and platform automation.

- Experience with Kubernetes-based environments, including AKS, EKS, or similar platforms, with a focus on workload efficiency and cost optimization.

- Ability to design insightful dashboards, visualizations, and reporting using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Grafana, or similar analytics platforms.

- Skilled at translating complex technical and financial datasets into actionable recommendations while leveraging modern AI-assisted tools to accelerate analysis, investigation, and decision-making.

Required Skills for This Role

- Proficiency in SQL for cloud cost and usage analysis.

- Experience with Python, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages.

- Strong knowledge of REST APIs and cloud cost management APIs.

- Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP services.

- Expertise in Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools.

- Familiarity with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI.

- Experience working with Kubernetes, AKS, or EKS environments.

- Proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, Grafana, or similar BI tools.

- Understanding of FinOps principles, tagging strategies, and cost allocation models.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for large-scale data analysis.

- Ability to communicate insights effectively to technical and business stakeholders.

- Experience using AI-assisted tools to accelerate analysis and investigation.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization EI&O domain is the part of Enterprise Technology with the focus on Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering & Operations.  This role will play a critical part in helping the organization optimize cloud investments and improve operational efficiency through data-driven decision-making. By delivering actionable insights into cloud costs, infrastructure utilization, and workload performance, you will enable teams to make informed engineering and financial decisions. Your work will strengthen FinOps practices, increase cost transparency, and drive automation that improves visibility, accountability, and overall business value.

Company Overview Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services. Headquartered in Boston, US, Fidelity's goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. Privately held for nearly 70 years, Fidelity employs 45,000 associates who are focused on the long-term success of our customers. FMR (Fidelity Management & Research) India is the Global Inhouse Center of Fidelity Investments. Headquartered at Bangalore, where operations commenced in 2003, FMR India has another fully functional unit at Chennai.

Primary Work Location: Bangalore/Chennai

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