Principal Engineer Cloud Platform Economics & Optimization
Syneos Health1 hour ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Execute FinOps policies, cloud optimization strategies, and savings initiatives across cloud services, subscriptions, accounts, and products.
- Partner with Cloud Engineering to improve tagging, metadata standards, cost telemetry, allocation accuracy, and cost data quality.
- Analyze usage, rates, reservations, savings plans, anomalies, idle resources, and overprovisioning to identify actionable optimization opportunities.
- Track, validate, attribute, and report realized and forecast savings against enterprise targets, including variance explanations.
- Embed cost governance and guardrails into intake, change, provisioning, architecture, platform, and operational processes.
- Automate rightsizing, schedule and stop-start actions, policy-based enforcement, and continuous detection and remediation.
- Support MSP execution by validating cost-action implementation and maintaining consistent, audit-ready evidence and reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is preferred.
- At least 8 years of cloud engineering experience.
- Strong cloud cost management experience across Azure and AWS, including cost allocation, forecasting, optimization levers, and service pricing and consumption drivers.
- Working knowledge of the FinOps framework and experience turning policies and insights into delivered savings.
- Ability to analyze cost signals and telemetry, including usage trends, unit costs, anomalies, commitments, and idle resources, and convert findings into trackable actions.
- Experience partnering with engineering teams on tagging standards, cost data quality, policy-based controls, and repeatable optimization workflows.
- Ability to work across engineering, operations, finance, and vendor or MSP stakeholders using data, standards, and clear reporting.
- Strong communication, attention to detail, and control-mindedness to ensure optimization actions and savings reporting are accurate, repeatable, and audit-ready.
Benefits
- Career development and progression, supportive line management, technical and therapeutic area training, peer recognition, and a total rewards program.
- Inclusive workplace culture and opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across the organization.