FinOps Engineer

Genesis10 is currently seeking a FinOps Engineer for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Chandler, AZ or Irving, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

We are seeking a skilled FinOps Engineer to drive financial accountability, optimize cloud spend, and improve forecasting across the technology organization. This role provides hands-on technical leadership for the FinOps function, focused on driving efficiencies, embedding cost accountability into engineering workflows, and leveraging automation and AI-assisted insights to reduce technology spend at scale. The role partners closely with Architecture, Engineering, and Finance to ensure cost is treated as a first-class operational and design consideration.

Responsibilities:

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Specialty Software Engineering
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale, or longer-term engineering challenges
• Provide application-level cost visibility, allocation, and chargeback
• Identify optimization opportunities such as rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, storage lifecycle, and architectural efficiencies
• Manage budgeting, forecasting, anomaly detection, and variance analysis to deliver measurable cost savings
• Build automated guardrails, alerts, and remediation workflows
• Integrate cost controls into engineering pipelines and operational processes
• Create dashboards and present insights to executives and stakeholders

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education
• 6-10+ years of experience in cloud, platform, or infrastructure engineering
• Hands-on experience with Azure and GCP cost management, billing models, and optimization
• Experience managing and optimizing on-prem or hybrid infrastructure costs
• Proven FinOps experience
• Strong automation and engineering capabilities, including scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent)
• AI-assisted FinOps automation experience, such as using AI-driven insights or anomaly detection
• Experience implementing tagging, allocation, and governance standards at scale
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical cost drivers into business impact

Desired skills:

• Experience operating FinOps in large-scale or multi-cloud environments
• Kubernetes or container cost optimization experience
• Experience embedding cost as a non-functional requirement (NFR) in architecture and design reviews
• Familiarity with third-party FinOps or cloud cost management platforms
• FinOps Foundation certification or demonstrated applied FinOps maturity

Pay range: $71.88 - $79.88 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.