We're looking for a FinOps Engineer with a DevOps backbone who has an almost obsessive eye for cost leaks, idle resources, and inefficiencies across our platform. If unused
EBS volumes, oversized instances, or a forgotten dev environment running on weekends genuinely bother you — you'll fit right in.
This isn't a passive reporting role. You'll be expected to proactively hunt for waste,
propose optimizations, and drive strategic cost conversations with engineering, SRE,
and leadership across Zoop's entire platform — from infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters to data pipelines and third-party services.
What You'll Own
- Continuously audit Zoop's cloud footprint (AWS/Azure/GCP) end-to-end —
compute, storage, networking, databases, observability stack, and SaaS tooling — and flag every form of waste, big or small.
- Proactively propose cost-reduction strategies rather than waiting to be asked
— bring data, options, trade-offs, and a recommendation to the table.
- Lead monthly/quarterly cost reviews with engineering and product leadership;
turn billing data into actionable conversations.
- Build cost visibility dashboards and chargeback/showback models so every team
at Zoop knows what they're spending and why.
- Drive rightsizing, autoscaling tuning, Spot/Reserved Instance/Savings Plan
strategies, and storage tiering across the platform.
- Embed cost guardrails into CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and
Kubernetes manifests — catch wasteful resources before they're deployed.
- Optimize Kubernetes cost efficiency using tools like Kubecost, OpenCost, or
Karpenter; tune requests/limits, HPA/VPA, and node pools.
- Set up automated alerts and anomaly detection for budget breaches, idle
resources, and runaway costs.
- Partner with Finance for forecasting, unit economics (cost per user/transaction),
and cloud budget planning.
- Evangelize a cost-aware engineering culture — run internal sessions, write
playbooks,
and make FinOps a shared responsibility, not a finance afterthought.
Who You Are
- Someone with genuine OCD around cost and wastage — you can't sleep
knowing a non-prod cluster ran all weekend at full capacity.
- A DevOps practitioner first, who understands why costs happen at the
infrastructure level — not just someone reading billing reports.
- Naturally proactive — you don't wait for tickets; you spot patterns, dig in, and
propose changes before anyone asks.
- Comfortable challenging engineering decisions diplomatically when they're
expensive, and equally comfortable defending necessary spend to finance.
- A clear communicator who can talk to both a senior engineer about Karpenter
configs and a CFO about quarterly burn.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Cloud
FinOps roles.
- Robust working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred), including native cost tools (Cost Explorer, CUR, Azure Cost Management, or GCP Billing).
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi).
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE).
- Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go for automation, reporting, and cost tooling.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
- Solid grasp of cloud pricing models — On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings
Plans, Spot/Preemptible, committed-use discounts.
- SQL skills for querying billing data (AWS CUR via Athena/Redshift, BigQuery
billing exports).
Nice to Have
- FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) certification.
- Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience with FinOps platforms (CloudHealth, Cloudability/Apptio, Spot.io,
Vantage, Kubecost).
- Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud cost optimization.
- Understanding of SaaS unit economics (cost per customer, cost per transaction,
gross margin impact). Skills:- FinOps, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Cloud Cost Optimization
📌 FinOps Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Zoop
📍 Pune