FinOps Senior Site Reliability Engineer II
RELX (Elsevier, LexisNexis) · Boca Raton, United States · 1mo ago
About the role:
A FinOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) bridges the gap between engineering, operations, and financial governance by embedding cost optimization into infrastructure design, automation, monitoring, and operational processes. A FinOps SRE proactively identifies waste, improves resource utilization, automates cost controls, and enhances visibility into cloud spending while maintaining service reliability and performance.
The ideal candidate is a cloud-native SRE with strong experience in Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, automation, AI platforms, and cloud financial management.
Responsibilities:
- Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives across Azure and AWS.
- Drive optimization initiatives involving compute, storage, AI workloads, networking, and managed services.
- Support enterprise AI, Generative AI, and machine learning platforms.
- Implement governance, monitoring, and financial accountability for AI services and GPU-enabled environments.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud automation solutions.
- Build CI/CD and GitOps capabilities that improve platform delivery and consistency.
- Eliminate manual processes through automation and self-service capabilities.
- Promote engineering efficiency through reusable patterns, templates, and tooling.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across cloud, FinOps, and platform initiatives.
- Lead technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and platform modernization efforts.
- Drive adoption of engineering, governance, and operational excellence standards.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Proven experience implementing cloud automation and observability solutions.
- Experience leading cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives.
- Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or Generative AI platform capabilities.
- FinOps Certification (Nice to have)
Working for you:
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
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