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Sr. Cloud and FinOps Engineer – Level 3

Sr. Cloud and FinOps Engineer – Level 3

MprogenDallas, TX, Texas, USA
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Sr. Cloud and FinOps Engineer – Level 3

Location : Dallas

The Role

Hitachi Vantara provides secure hyperscale public cloud migrations and infrastructure management services. As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and a recognized leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud MSPs, we deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that meet complex federal requirements.

We are seeking strong  Senior Cloud Engineers  with experience in  AWS architecture, operations, and cloud financial management (FinOps) . Candidates must have  prior federal experience , a strong understanding of compliance and governance, and the ability to lead in both technical implementation and cloud cost optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of secure and scalable AWS cloud environments for federal clients.
  • Partner with FinOps teams to implement cost management practices, including reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
  • Perform in-depth analysis of AWS usage and cost data to identify trends, anomalies, and cost optimization opportunities.
  • Ensure tagging, budgeting, and reporting policies are enforced in line with FinOps and federal compliance standards.
  • Support automation of cloud financial operations using tools like Athena, CUR, and Cost Explorer APIs.
  • Collaborate with procurement, finance, and engineering teams to align usage with business and budget objectives.
  • Senior support engineer for customers, as well as the more junior members of the team
  • Work with the customer and lead architect on designing and implementing Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments, including compute, storage, database, networking, security etc. in the CSP ecosystem
  • Deploy / Manage CSP environments including VPN solutions between regions and subnets
  • Manage CSP Image architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
  • Leading junior team members through deployment and implementation of systems infrastructure projects and overseeing the Cloud environments based on customer requirements
  • Validation to ensure that the environment meets all security and compliance controls
  • Leveraging written and verbal communication skills to work directly with customers and translate business needs into technical requirements for implementation
  • Creating knowledge articles and run books for solutions developed
  • Mentoring junior members of the team

Required Skills & Experience

  • Experience working in 24x7 Operations and Managed Service model, supporting external customers.
  • Long working knowledge and experience of AWS (Azure and GCP optional) Services and Offerings such as Infrastructure, Networking, Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform
  • Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (GitLAB, GitHub, Jenkins)
  • Prior experience provisioning and spinning up Kubernetes Clusters and managing Kubernetes installations
  • Hands on Terraform experience
  • Possession of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience working in Federal or State government environments
  • Understanding of Security and Vulnerability management and related tools (OKTA, Tenable, TrendMicro, XSoar, CyberARK)
  • In depth knowledge of UNIX / Linux and Windows Environment
  • End to End configuration & trouble shooting of the web and application servers (Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, IIS)
  • Good written and verbal English communication
  • Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master / slave architectures)
  • Experience supporting a managed services infrastructure (Public cloud)
  • Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Dynatrace preferred, DataDog, Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch, Gnaglia, etc.)
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
  • Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)
  • Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.)
  • Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and multi-account governance
  • Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Experience designing secure, scalable AWS environments in federal settings (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53)
  • Proficient in Kubernetes deployment on AWS (EKS preferred)
  • Experience with AWS billing tools : Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, Cost & Usage Reports (CUR)
  • Strong understanding of AWS pricing models (On-Demand, Savings Plans, RIs)
  • Hands-on experience with FinOps automation and reporting (e.g., Athena, QuickSight, Python-based tooling)
  • Familiarity with the FinOps Framework (inform, optimize, operate)
  • Proven track record working in U.S. federal cloud environments
  • Deep knowledge of FedRAMP compliance, cloud audit readiness, and related security controls
  • Experience coordinating with federal stakeholders and understanding of procurement / cost allocation models

    • Optional / Preferred Skills

  • FinOps Certified Practitioner (FCP)
  • AWS Professional Certification (Solutions Architect, SysOps Admin, etc.)
  • Familiarity with multi-cloud FinOps tools (CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability)
  • Exposure to Agile / Scrum methodologies
  • Background in finance, procurement, or chargeback / showback processes
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