FinOps Engineer III

The role

You will optimize cloud and AI spend across GCP and AWS, and third-party SaaS costs. You will build cost guardrails, tagging and reporting, and work with engineering teams on cost-efficient architecture.

What you will do

• Drive cloud and AI cost optimization across GCP and AWS, including tracking AI usage and costs across providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI
• Build and automate guardrails: budget alerts, anomaly detection and rightsizing recommendations
• Design and enforce tagging and allocation frameworks for cost attribution, showback/chargeback, budgeting and forecasting
• Manage commitment-based discounts such as Committed Use Discounts, Savings Plans and Reserved Instances
• Partner with engineering teams to review and re-architect workloads for cost efficiency
• Develop dashboards, reports and forecasts on spend trends and optimization ROI
• Govern third-party SaaS and tech-stack spend, evaluating, right-sizing and consolidating vendors
• Establish FinOps best practices, standards and self-service tooling

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, DevOps or FinOps, with a focus on cost optimization and governance
• Hands-on expertise with at least one major cloud provider (GCP or AWS)
• Proven experience building and managing automated FinOps alerting
• Familiarity with tracking AI model usage and spend across multiple LLM providers
• Proficiency with cloud cost-management tooling
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language (Python preferred)
• Experience building dashboards and reports in Looker, Looker Studio, Tableau or similar tools
• Clear communication skills and ability to influence engineering and finance stakeholders without direct authority
• Financial and engineering fluency
• Analytical rigor with large datasets
• Strong cross-functional collaboration
• Bias for automation

Nice to have

• FinOps Certified Practitioner certification and/or relevant cloud certifications

Before you apply

• ZoomInfo may use a software-based assessment as part of the recruitment process

About the company

ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) is an all-in-one AI go-to-market platform for sales, marketing and customer success teams. It offers B2B data on more than 100 million companies and 500 million contacts.