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Westrock

Sr. Anlst, IT&D Eng & Arch

Duluth, GA · On-site

$96K - $132K/yr

Cloud FinOps Engineer - Atlanta, GA The opportunity: This Cloud FinOps Engineer will be an integral part of our Public Cloud Engineering - Cloud Center of Excellence who is ready for a unique ...

State Farm

Lead Azure FinOps Analyst

Dunwoody, GA · Hybrid

This highly visible role combines cloud engineering, data analytics, finance, automation, and ... Drive next-generation AI for FinOps capabilities including intelligent anomaly detection ...

Saransh Inc

AWS FinOps Architect - Only W2

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$62.25 - $81.75/hr

AWS FinOps Architect with FinOps Certifications Location: Atlanta, GA - 3 Days/ week - Onsite ... Work with stakeholders (engineering, application, business, audit, sourcing, budgeting ...

State Farm

Lead AWS FinOps Analyst

Dunwoody, GA · Hybrid

$71K - $93K/yr

Partner directly with senior leaders across Engineering, Information Security, Finance ... Drive next-generation AI for FinOps capabilities including intelligent anomaly detection ...

APCO Holdings

Cloud FinOps Architect Lead

Norcross, GA · Hybrid

$61 - $77.50/hr

This is a senior-level technical role focused on the intersection of high-performance engineering ... Essential Duties and Responsibilities Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) & Optimization

APCO Holdings

Cloud FinOps Architect Lead

Norcross, GA · On-site

$61 - $77.50/hr

This is a senior-level technical role focused on the intersection of high-performance engineering ... Essential Duties and Responsibilities Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) & Optimization

APCO Holdings

Cloud FinOps Architect Lead

Norcross, GA · Hybrid

$61 - $77.50/hr

This is a senior-level technical role focused on the intersection of high-performance engineering ... Essential Duties and Responsibilities Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) & Optimization

4P Consulting Inc.

DevOps Engineer IV 4P/763

Atlanta, GA

$50.75 - $69.50/hr

... s Engineer IV Location: Atlanta, GA Duration: 6 Months Client: Southern Company Services Job ... and FinOps. This role will help build scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AI and cloud solutions ...

Learn Beyond Consulting LLC

AI DevOps Engineer

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$50.75 - $69.50/hr

... s Engineer IV to support the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise AI platforms ... Drive FinOps practices, including cloud cost optimization, resource utilization, and enterprise ...

Lagardere Travel Retail

Cloud Engineer III

Atlanta, GA

$53.50 - $71.75/hr

This role also supports FinOps accountability by guiding resource governance, optimizing cloud ... Engineer, maintain, and improve core infrastructure services including Active Directory, Group ...

Corporate Positions

Cloud Engineer III

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$53.50 - $71.75/hr

This role also supports FinOps accountability by guiding resource governance, optimizing cloud ... Engineer, maintain, and improve core infrastructure services including Active Directory, Group ...

Lancesoft

DevOps Engineer 4

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$70 - $77.14/hr

Drive FinOps practices including cloud cost optimization, usage monitoring, and cost-performance analysis. * Collaborate with engineering, security, architecture, and business teams to deliver ...

Learn Beyond Consulting LLC

AI Devops Engineer

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$50.75 - $69.50/hr

... s Engineer Location: Atlanta, GA 5 Month Contract Only W2 3 days hybrid onsite in Atlanta Top ... Drive FinOps practices, including cloud cost optimization, resource utilization, and enterprise ...

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How much do finops engineer jobs pay per year?

As of Jul 28, 2026, the average yearly pay for finops engineer in Atlanta, GA is $97,850.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $80,800.00 and $112,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are FinOps Engineers?

FinOps Engineers are professionals who specialize in cloud financial management, helping organizations optimize their cloud spending and improve budgeting, forecasting, and cost allocation. They work closely with engineering, finance, and operations teams to implement best practices for cloud usage and cost control. Their goal is to ensure that cloud investments deliver maximum business value by balancing performance, cost, and innovation.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a FinOps Engineer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a FinOps Engineer, you need a solid understanding of cloud computing, financial analysis, and cost optimization, often supported by a background in computer science, finance, or cloud certifications. Familiarity with cloud platforms (such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), cost management tools, and data analytics systems is essential. Strong problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and effective communication skills set top performers apart in this role. These skills are crucial for managing cloud spending efficiently and enabling organizations to maximize value from their cloud investments.

What is the difference between Finops Engineer vs Cloud Engineer?

AspectFinops EngineerCloud Engineer
CredentialsCertifications in cloud cost management, FinOps Foundation, cloud platformsCertifications in cloud architecture, AWS, Azure, or GCP
Work EnvironmentFinance and operations teams, cloud cost optimization projectsCloud infrastructure setup, deployment, and management
Industry UsageFinance, IT, cloud service providersIT, cloud service providers, enterprise IT teams

Finops Engineers focus on managing and optimizing cloud costs, working closely with finance and operations teams. Cloud Engineers build and maintain cloud infrastructure. While both roles require cloud platform knowledge, Finops Engineers specialize in cost management, making them distinct yet complementary roles in cloud environments.

How does a FinOps Engineer typically collaborate with engineering and finance teams to optimize cloud spending?

A FinOps Engineer acts as a bridge between engineering and finance teams by translating technical cloud usage data into actionable financial insights. They often participate in regular meetings with both groups to review cloud costs, identify optimization opportunities, and set budgetary controls. This role requires clear communication to ensure that engineering teams can maintain performance while finance teams achieve cost visibility and predictability. FinOps Engineers also help establish and enforce best practices for tagging, resource allocation, and forecasting to support collaborative decision-making.
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Infographic showing various Finops Engineer job openings in Atlanta, GA as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 92% Full Time, 4% Part Time, and 4% Contract. Highlights an 88% Physical, 4% Hybrid, and 8% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $96,686 per year, or $46.5 per hour.
Sr. Anlst, IT&D Eng & Arch

Sr. Anlst, IT&D Eng & Arch

Westrock

Duluth, GA • On-site

$96K - $132K/yr

Full-time

Posted 13 days ago

Job description

General Information
Job ID
ATR59910
Posting Job Title
Cloud FinOps Engineer
Locations
GA Duluth
Employment Type
Full Time
Date Posted
15-Jul-2026
Relocation Support
No
Description & Requirements
Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.
Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging solutions. We are materials scientists, packaging designers, mechanical engineers and manufacturing experts with a shared purpose: Innovate Boldly. Package Sustainably. Guided by our values of integrity, respect, accountability and excellence, we use leading science and technology to move fiber-based packaging forward.
Our technology organization is transforming how we work at Smurfit WestRock. We align with our businesses to deliver innovative solutions that:
  • Address specific business challenges, integrate processes, and create great experiences
  • Connect our work to shared goals that propel Smurfit WestRock forward in the Digital Age
  • Imagine how technology can advance the way we work by using disruptive technology

We are looking for forward thinking technologists that can accelerate our focus areas such as building stronger foundational technology capabilities, reducing complexity, employing digital transformation concepts, and leveraging disruptive technology.
Position Summary:
Cloud FinOps Engineer - Atlanta, GA
The opportunity:
This Cloud FinOps Engineer will be an integral part of our Public Cloud Engineering - Cloud Center of Excellence who is ready for a unique opportunity to be Smurfit WestRock's first technologist focused on both the finance and cloud technology disciplines. The ideal candidate is familiar with cloud hosting and cloud technologies with cost management processes in the cloud.
This position will be responsible for accurately processing and allocating the AWS accruals and month-end bill charges for all the Smurfit WestRock Cloud accounts in a timely manner. The Cloud FinOps Engineer will also allocate charges based on usage to appropriate IT (Information Technology) Business partners and business units monthly. This person will interface with the organization's Sr. Leadership evangelizing Cloud costing models for TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), Cloud Optimization, Cloud Cost Show backs and Cloud Charge Back strategies. This position will interface with multiple financial systems or applications of high complexity (complexity defined by size, technology used and system feeds and interfaces) with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility. The role will act as the Finance and Cloud Cost liaisons for cloud consumers e.g., (operations teams, Developers, IT Business partners, Engineers, and Architects) providing cost estimates and insight into upcoming budgeted implementations and strategies, including ongoing solutions run rate.
How you will impact Smurfit WestRock:
  • FinOps Program Implementation - 60%:
    • Develop, measure, report and maintain key performance indicators for tracking real time costs, consumption, and metrics for product level visibility
    • Executes deployment of costing templates for delivery of products and services financial requirements
    • Enable product teams and end users to move towards self-service cloud cost reporting.
    • Develop resource tagging strategy to create accountability related to shared cloud services expenses.
    • Prioritizes work from multiple projects simultaneously.
    • Works closely with Project Managers from other teams/departments to complete work.
    • Operationalize FinOps frameworks, establish business processes in support of globally distributed teams, promote a culture of cost awareness and accountability
    • Proactively creates and maintains tools for monitoring cost budgets and overages.
    • Develop methods of Chargeback Reserved Instance and Savings Plan amortization values to appropriate divisions monthly
    • Research and analyze business trends and behavioral data to identify opportunities for innovative cost savings and cost avoidance methods.

  • Management and Enablement - 30%:
    • Experience building enterprise cloud cost management strategy for cloud adoption or driving the program's evolution to meet new requirements.
    • Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security; optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate.
    • Experience in process engineering to establish new processes and improve existing processes with a metrics driven approach.
    • Manage the relationship between IT Business partners and the Cloud Center of Excellence to provide transparency into cloud usage and costs
    • Partner with Strategic Sourcing and Finance to negotiate cloud contracts and other hosting opportunities.
    • Evaluate emerging cost management tools/ optimization tools, processes, and frameworks, drive adoption of the best options
    • Proposes cloud-related optimizations and best practices to improve reliability, performance, and cost.
    • Experienced with cloud budget management process, cloud cost analytics and cloud cost optimization
    • Partner with Finance, Operations and Engineering teams to implement cost optimization initiatives involving usage efficiencies, pricing efficiencies, deep dives into services such as cloud native services, compute, network, and storage usage
    • Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with the cost to deploy supporting infrastructure.
    • Participates in project planning and management across multiple efforts.
    • Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams.
    • Support Business Unit, Procurement, and other teams with subject matter expertise on forecasting and cloud costing models
    • Create cloud cost, standards, procedures, and guidelines for engineering to consume
    • Create and improve design and training documentation.
    • Develop and deliver formal cloud cost awareness training courses.
  • Learning - 10%:
    • Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to cloud ecosystem and determines how they impact the cost of solutions, projects, or budgets.
    • Participates in and contributes to FinOps Foundation communities for learning activities around the concepts of cost and cloud usage ownership as core practices (share discoveries from communities of practice with the technology organizations).
    • Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about current cost management strategies and best practices being used within other technology organizations or manufacturing industries.
    • Proactively engage cloud providers business office services, e.g., AWS CFM (Cloud Financial Management)- Cloud Financial Management, Azure Cloud Economics to stay current with cloud cost new features, innovation roadmaps and cloud cost reduction opportunities.

What you need to succeed:
  • Job requirements:
    • Bachelor's degree in Finance or Computer Science or relevant work experience or equivalent military experience
    • 4-8 years overall IT experience.
    • Certifications: AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification (preferred), FinOps Practitioner Certification (preferred), Professional Certification (a plus) or equivalent Azure Certifications
    • 3+ years of Enterprise-level cloud platform experience with Azure or AWS
    • Proven experience with cloud providers infrastructure (network/compute), services, and usage models
    • Knowledge of intersection of cloud financial management and machine learning infrastructure, showcasing skills in optimizing GPU costs, modeling AI workload expenses, and implementing governance
    • Proven experiences are creating governance on cloud spend
    • Budgeting and forecasting
    • Proficiency in monitoring cloud spend
    • Proficiency in reporting and tracking cloud spend
  • Necessary Skills and Competencies:
    • Highly organized, thorough, self-starter who can work with multiple internal teams and project managers to deliver results.
    • Have a Cloud-agnostic attitude
    • Build and deliver effective data driven presentations for various business partners on public cloud cost usage and spend insights.
    • Continuously monitor public cloud provider discount commitments (like Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, sustained use/committed use discounts) with the vital governance, processes, and tooling and ensure key coverage and utilization metrics are trending in the right direction
    • Proven skillset in latest AWS services and/or Azure services and ability to monitor cost variability in a multi-cloud strategy
    • Demonstratable knowledge around providing cloud consumers and stakeholders cost related insights, metrics, and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) related to their service costs
    • Demonstrable skills building BI (Business Intelligence) dashboards for forecasting and unit economics analysis e.g., Power BI, Domo, Tableau, Cudos etc...)
    • Proficient with building and improving forecasts and exploring trends related to Cloud Financial Management/Optimization tools), e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR), CUDO's. Apptio, Cloudability, Flexera, CloudHealth, Turbonomic, Densify
    • Effective verbal/interpersonal and written communication skills, ability to communicate sophisticated technical topics to peers in a clear, concise manner
    • Highly proficiency in MS Excel
    • Proficient with traditional and Agile methodologies.
    • Active membership of the FinOps Foundation (a plus)

Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

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