Overview
Your Career
We are seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer – DevOps (Cloud FinOps & Cloud Resource Optimization) to drive cloud cost efficiency and optimization strategies across AWS and GCP. This role requires a strong operations-minded individual with a track record of implementing structured processes to manage cloud costs effectively.
You will play a crucial role in ensuring efficient cloud resource utilization, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement FinOps best practices and build automation-driven solutions for cost governance. The ideal candidate has a deep technical background in DevOps, SRE, and FinOps engineering, with hands-on experience in cloud cost analysis, governance frameworks, and automation.
Your Impact
Optimize Cloud Costs: Continuously monitor AWS & GCP cloud usage and spending data to identify cost-saving opportunities.
Develop Cost Strategies: Implement automated cloud cost optimization strategies and best practices to ensure efficient resource utilization.
Strong Operational Execution: Establish and enforce structured processes for cloud cost governance, budgeting, and spend optimization.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with Finance, Operations, and Engineering teams to define cloud cost controls, policies, and pricing model adjustments.
Cost & Usage Analytics: Analyze cloud usage patterns and trends to drive cost reductions, ensuring budget efficiency and financial accountability.
Cloud Resource Governance: Implement tagging policies, rightsizing strategies, and commitment-based purchasing (e.g., Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, CUDs).
Automation & Reporting: Develop automation tools for cost visibility, budgeting, and forecasting. Create dashboards and reports using AWS/GCP cost APIs and Tableau to track cloud spend.
Ensure Compliance & Efficiency: Drive adherence to FinOps standards, ensuring alignment with business goals, compliance frameworks, and cloud budget forecasts.
Qualifications
Your Experience
Strong operations mindset with a proven track record of implementing structured processes in cloud governance and cost management.
6-8 years of hands-on experience in AWS & GCP as a DevOps Engineer or SRE, with a strong Cloud FinOps focus.
3+ years of relevant experience specializing in Cloud Resource Optimization and FinOps automation.
FinOps Certified Practitioner or Associate (FinOps Foundation certification is a plus).
Strong programming skills in Python or Go for automation, cloud cost analysis, and FinOps tool development.
Experience working with AWS & GCP cost APIs, billing dashboards, and ElasticSearch for data aggregation.
Expertise in Terraform (IaC), cloud tagging policies, and cost allocation models.
Strong reporting and visualization experience using Tableau, AWS Cost Explorer, and GCP Cost Management tools.
Proven track record of process implementation, cloud governance, automated cost controls, and cloud financial forecasting
Additional Information
The Team
To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest-growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and access technology and the products and services that dedicatedly address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks and enabling secure access to all on-prem and cloud applications. They are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about Access and security. These engineers aren’t shy about building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. They define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.
Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled chance to create the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people and products can transform a business, this is the team for you. If the prospect of affecting tens of millions of people, enabling them to work remotely securely and easily in ways never done before, thrill you - you belong with us.
Our Commitment
We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
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- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India