Principal Engineer Cloud Platform Economics & Optimization
Syneos Health7 months 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.
About Syneos Health
Syneos Health provides outsourced clinical development and commercialization services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, spanning clinical trials, medical affairs, and product launch support. The company operates under fee-for-service and functional service provider models across global drug development. Headquartered in Morrisville, NC, it was formed in 2017 through the merger of INC Research and inVentiv Health and was acquired in 2023 by affiliates of Elliott Management.