Cloud Platform FinOps Engineer
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation12 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Analyze cloud spending trends and usage patterns across AWS, Azure, and OCI.
- Identify, prioritize, and monitor cloud cost optimization initiatives involving rightsizing, modernization, automation, and commitment management.
- Establish cloud cost allocation, chargeback, and showback models and support forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis.
- Create reporting dashboards, executive insights, cost metrics, anomaly detection, forecasting, and optimization workflows.
- Develop cloud financial governance standards and optimize Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and other commitment programs.
- Partner with application, product, engineering, finance, procurement, and business teams on cloud design and FinOps practices.
- Embed FinOps practices into CI/CD pipelines and cloud delivery processes.
- Educate stakeholders and present cloud financial metrics, opportunities, and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Manage or advise on AWS organizations, organizational-unit guardrails, service control policies, IAM, and VPC infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 2 years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, or FinOps.
- Strong understanding of cloud pricing, billing, consumption models, and cloud financial management and governance.
- Experience managing enterprise-scale cloud environments, cloud migration and modernization initiatives, and software asset or cloud licensing optimization.
- Hands-on AWS experience, including IAM administration and policy writing, AWS Organizations, service control policies, VPC networking, and cloud infrastructure guardrails.
- Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, Chef or Ansible, Git, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with one or more of HCL, JSON, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Bash, or Node.js.
- Strong communication, collaboration, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
- Preferred: FinOps Certified Practitioner or Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Administrator, or Azure Solutions Architect certification.
- Preferred: Knowledge of OPA/Rego policy as code.
Benefits
- The role normally works in a temperature-controlled office environment with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment.
- Daily interaction with team members occurs through meetings or in person, with work performed primarily at a computer.
- Wabtec provides an inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace and accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
About Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec) builds freight locomotives, braking and signaling systems, rail components, and software used by freight railroads, transit agencies, and industrial operators. The Pittsburgh-based public company (NYSE: WAB) sells original equipment, digital solutions, and aftermarket services worldwide; it combined with GE Transportation in 2019 and traces its roots to George Westinghouse’s 19th‑century air brake business. Its portfolio spans rolling stock, parts, condition‑monitoring, and train control platforms.