AWS Cloud FinOps Analyst

Key Responsibilities Monitor, analyze, and optimize AWS spending across accounts and services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, and CloudFront. Identify cost-saving opportunities through rightsizing, storage optimization, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and waste reduction initiatives. Develop and maintain cost dashboards, budgets, forecasts, chargeback/showback models, and tagging governance using AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, AWS Billing Console, and AWS Cost & Usage Reports (CUR). Build custom cost reports and automate analysis using Python, SQL, Athena, Glue, and Lambda. Integrate AWS cost and usage data with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, and QuickSight. Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Procurement, and Finance teams to drive FinOps initiatives and cost governance. Support AWS purchasing cycles, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) discussions. Required Skills & Qualifications Strong understanding of AWS pricing models, billing constructs, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and Enterprise Discount Programs (EDP). Hands-on experience with AWS Cost Explorer AWS Budgets AWS Cost & Usage Reports (CUR) AWS Billing Console Experience with FinOps platforms such as CloudHealth, Cloudability (Apptio), Flexera, or Harness. Proficiency in Excel, SQL, Python, and AWS services including Athena, Glue, and Lambda. Experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or QuickSight. Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.Additional  AWS Technical Requirements AWS Step Functions state machine configuration and troubleshooting. Amazon SES event-driven inbound mail processing. AWS Lambda event mappings and serverless integrations. Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) testing and monitoring. Schema drift validation and remediation. API retry mechanism hardening and operational support. Knowledge transfer and L3 production support activities.