FinOps Engineer

About Sinch

Sinch is pioneering the way the world communicates. More than 150,000 businesses — including Google, Uber, Paypal, Visa, Tinder, and many others — rely on Sinch’s Customer Communications Cloud to power engaging customer experiences through mobile messaging, voice, and email. 

Whether you need to verify users or craft omnichannel campaigns, Sinch makes it easy. Our AI-infused Super Network, APIs, and applications ensure you can connect with your customers reliably and securely, at every step of their journey. 

At Sinch we “Dream Big”, “Win Together”, “Keep it simple”, and “Make it Happen”. These values are our foundation! 

Description

You will be part of the Cloud Governance team. We are a small central team supporting several business units. Our focus is FinOps, cloud security and cloud management. Your role will be centered around the FinOps phases of Inform, Optimize and Operate. You will be expected to be grounded in FinOps but there are no set boundaries between competence areas. "Not in my job description" is not in our vocabulary. You will be expected to both invent and execute. We are pioneering FinOps in Sinch. As a consequence, not all requirements will come from above. Sometimes we need to work backwards, i. e. to define our own requirements and align with stakeholders rather than having requirements handed to us.

It is important that you understand the mechanisms that drive cloud cost. Depending on who you are the, the role can be weighted more towards technology or finance.

As our new FinOps Engineer you will:

• As a bridge that connects Finance and Technology, the FinOps Engineer should be able to explain cloud technology to finance and management personas and finance to engineers.
• Promote FinOps culture across the company
• Enable cost visibility - tagging and reporting
• Identify, recommend and follow up cost optimization opportunities and drive cost optimization workshops (gamedays)
• Build and maintain relationship with customers and internal stakeholders; interact with engineers, executives, product managers and finance teams
• Work with cloud vendors
• Take ownership of FinOps cost tools and develop capacity reservation policies
• Support budget processes - Be a cost detective, perform Cost analysis deep-dives and create custom reports
• Buy reserved capacity
• Work on technical solutions to support FinOps
• Advise on cost effective architectures
• Work on anything else you can come up with to help Sinch excel in FinOps!

Requirements 

• Already a FinOps practitioner or a Finance person with a tech interest or a Cloud/DevOps Engineer wanting to take the next step.
• You have a solid understanding of networking, storage, compute, application s up port, and application development concepts as it pertains to cloud computing
• Possess 5+ years of experience in Cloud Cost Management, FinOps or Vendor Client Success Management; having multi-year Multi year experience with Azure, AWS and/or GCP.
• Curious and inventive, problem solver, self-motivated
• University degree preferred
• Willing to be FinOps certified
• Passionate and comfortable handling FinOps discussions at the technical, business or financial level
• Adaptable and flexible with workloads and priorities
• Strong interpersonal skills /collaboration skills – to ensure progress is made
• Good written documentation and communication skills
• Possess Foundational Cloud services knowledge

Good to have 

• Previous experience of FinOps
• FinOps Practitioner certification
• Certification on one or more cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure); such as AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals, GCP Foundational
• Experience in an Agile environment using Scrum methodology
• Experience with chargeback modeling, cost savings and avoidance tracking, and forecasting
• Two or more (2+) years’ experience with cost optimization

Embrace the challenge and join us!  

Our Hiring Process

We are committed to ensuring a recruitment process that is fair, objective, consistent, and inclusive. Our approach includes structured, competency-based interviews designed to evaluate your skills, experience, and qualifications relevant to the role. At times, we may include a data-driven assessment to enhance our hiring success and identify candidates likely to excel.  

We believe in a two-way process and encourage you to ask questions throughout the journey.  If this role isn't what you're looking for, please explore the other opportunities listed on our career page: https://www.sinch.com/careers/. No matter who you are, we hope you find an exciting path forward - hopefully with us!