FinOps Engineer (Full Time) - San Francisco California

Company: Duckbill Group
Location: San Francisco, California
Posted On: 01/29/2025

Do you love working on AWS bills? Helping build cost management processes? If so, you might be a great fit for our team.This is a full-time role. If you're interested in part-time, freelance work, submit an application to our .You will be responsible for helping our clients understand and optimize their AWS spend. You will be working on identifying cost reduction opportunities at an architectural level, building cost forecasting models, creating better governance and cost management controls, assessing clients' own cost management programs, and continuing to identify better ways we can serve our clients.You will be working closely with executives and engineers from our clients and leading projects on some of the largest, most complicated AWS environments you can imagine. Your skills in communicating to both executive audiences and engineering audiences will be crucial in this role.We're looking for folks from both an Engineering/SRE/DevOps background and a finance/business background.Our clients expect us to be deeply engaged experts in AWS, particularly in AWS billing, so you'll need to do your best to constantly improve your skills in the wild west that is Amazon Web Services.What's in it for you? Working at The Duckbill Group is a great way to get an incredible amount of experience across a wide range of environments in a very short amount of time. We promise you: no matter how much experience you have with AWS now, you'll learn more with us than you thought possible.Responsibilities

• You'll be working with a high degree of autonomy, often running engagements by yourself.
• Communicate across multiple teams at our clients, from Engineering to Finance, and up to C-suite staff.
• Work directly with clients to help them understand their AWS spend and optimize it based on their unique architecture and desired business outcomes.
• Keep up to date on the latest AWS news and changes and continually work at being an expert in all-things-AWS.
• You love taking a data-driven approach to cost management.Requirements
  • Strong with AWS concepts, tools, and services.
  • Prior experience communicating effectively with executive audiences.
  • Prior experience in AWS cost management.
  • Prior experience working in a consultative, client-facing role.
  • This role is remote, but you must be US-based and legally authorized to work in the United States.Compensation & BenefitsCompensation for this role is all cash. Salary range is $150,000 to $250,000, depending on experience.We provide a 401(k) with a company contribution of 6% of your salary that vests immediately. In other words, we're putting an additional $9,000 to $15,000 per year into your 401(k) for you, whether you contribute or not.We provide healthcare, vision, and dental with premiums fully covered by the company. Dependents are covered 50%.We offer 4 weeks of PTO that accrue monthly, plus unlimited sick leave. We also close up shop for the last week of the year, giving everyone another week of paid time off.About UsThe Duckbill Group provides consulting services to mid-market and enterprise companies aimed at optimizing and managing their AWS spend. You can read about and on our website. Additionally, we operate several media publications in the AWS space, including our flagship publication, .While we might look like a standard boutique consulting firm, we've got big dreams and ambitions around how we can serve more clients in more ways. We're looking to grow and you would be a big part of that.Diversity & InclusionWe're building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We hire adults. We value transparency, autonomy, experimentation, and kind, direct feedback. We welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We're an equal opportunity employer and our hiring process is structured to put you at ease and help you demonstrate your best work.
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