FinOps Cloud Engineer

About this role

What You'll Do:

We are seeking a skilled engineer to join the FinOps team within Information Services, where you’ll play a key role in shaping how Principal’s cloud costs are managed, optimized, and governed across the organization. Upon joining the team, you would be developing and implementing solutions that advance our enterprise-wide FinOps strategy—helping Principal optimize cloud financial management, improve cost transparency, and drive smarter decision-making for teams making technology choices.

Working within an agile environment, our team emphasizes consistent, fully managed deployments. This role provides a unique opportunity to influence both delivery processes and outcomes, while partnering closely with a high-performing group of infrastructure engineers and technology professionals.

Our team currently focuses on managing and optimizing AWS cloud spend, but we're actively expanding our scope to include other cloud service providers (CSPs) used at Principal and technologies such as IaaS, SaaS, and vendor-hosted solutions. This role offers the opportunity to help shape our evolving FinOps strategy across a diverse and growing technology landscape.

As a Member of the Team, You will:

• Monitor, analyze, and report on cloud spend across platforms (currently this includes AWS & Azure).
• Identify cost-saving opportunities through rightsizing, scheduling, and purchasing strategies (e.g., Reserved Instances, Savings Plans).
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports to provide visibility into cloud usage and costs.
• Translate complex billing data into actionable insights for engineering, finance, and leadership teams.
• Partner with engineering, finance, procurement, and product teams to align cloud usage with business goals.
• Educate teams on cost-aware architecture and usage patterns.
• Help define and enforce cloud cost governance policies and tagging standards.
• Support compliance with internal and external financial controls.
• Implement and m...