FinOps Engineer

Job Description

The team

The Cloud Enablement team’s role is to provide a stable, secure and optimised cloud for all SEEKers, enabling engineering teams to use cloud technology by providing services and prescriptive guidance that promotes agile, autonomous delivery and supports business transformation. The team is split into FinOps and Engineering squads, with this role sitting within the FinOps squad.

About the role

As a FinOps Engineer at SEEK, you will help engineering teams make better cloud cost decisions without slowing delivery. This is a hands-on technical role focused on optimising costs and strengthening governance to foster a cost-aware culture.

You will work across Engineering, Platform, Operations, and Finance to improve how we understand, forecast, optimise, and govern cloud spend. You will combine FinOps practices, cloud engineering knowledge, data analysis, and automation to help teams manage spend proactively and maximise the business value of cloud.

Responsibilities

• Drive cloud cost optimization, including rightsizing, waste reduction, architectural improvements and commitment-based savings opportunities.
• Develop reporting dashboards and actionable insights on cloud spending, cost trends, optimization opportunities, and financial performance.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Finance, and other stakeholders to align cloud resource usage with business objectives and budgets.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews to ensure cost-efficient solutions are implemented early in the development lifecycle. 
• Leverage AI tooling and workflows to automate insight generation and drive FinOps at scale.
• Establish, support and automate recurring FinOps governance policies, processes, and best practices.
• Investigate cost anomalies and fix them so they stay fixed.
• Promote a cost-aware culture at SEEK by delivering FinOps best practice workshops.

Essential skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Finance, or equivalent professional experience.
• AWS, GCP, and/or FinOps certifications.
• Proficiency in scripting or coding languages (e.g. Python, Bash).
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management tools and services (e.g. AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing).
• Experience with data analysis tools and building BI dashboards (e.g. Quicksight, Athena, SQL, BigQuery, Looker, Domo, Tableau, etc.).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and identify cost optimization opportunities.
• Proven experience in a FinOps role, with an understanding of cloud cost management and corporate accounting processes (e.g. forecasting, invoicing, chargeback, accruals‚ etc.).
• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations to leaders. 
• Open-minded collaborator with a growth mindset and a practical, can-do approach.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and DevOps practices.

Other skills and experience

• Experience with FinOps for AI and AI for FinOps.  Experience managing AI/ML inference costs, API consumption, and token-based pricing across AI services, and experience with agentic AI solutions to provide automated insights at scale.

Qualifications

Essential skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, computer science, information technology, finance, economics or a related quantitative field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills, with hands-on experience querying large, granular billing datasets (e.g. Athena, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake).
• Proven experience building BI dashboards and visualisations (e.g. QuickSight, Looker, Power BI, Tableau, Domo) for both engineering and executive audiences.
• Proficiency in Python (or R) for data analysis, statistical modelling, recurring reporting automation and data collection scripting (e.g. Bash).
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management tools and data sources (e.g. AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, GCP Billing and BigQuery export, Azure Cost Management) and/or third-party FinOps platforms (e.g. Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth).
• Practical experience with forecasting, trend analysis and anomaly detection, with the judgement to know when a simple model beats a complex one.
• Rigour about data quality — reconciliation across sources, documented definitions, and healthy scepticism about your own numbers.
• AWS, GCP or FinOps certifications.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and version-controlled analytics workflows (e.g. Git, dbt, CI for data pipelines).
• Strong analytical, communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to interpret complex data, identify optimisation opportunities, and work effectively across cross-functional teams.

Other skills and experience

• Experience applying FinOps to AI workloads and using AI to support FinOps.
• Experience managing AI/ML inference costs, API consumption, and token-based pricing across AI services; tracking cost per token, cost per inference and GPU utilisation; and experience with agentic AI solutions to provide automated insights at scale.
• Experience applying data science to operational or financial data — regression, time-series forecasting (e.g. ARIMA, Prophet), clustering, and outlier or changepoint detection.
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines and transformation layers (e.g. dbt, Dataflow, Glue, Airflow, Composer).
• Experience modelling unit economics or cost-per-transaction in a product, platform or marketplace business.

Additional Information

Perks and benefits

At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role
• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Frequent events including sports days, year-end party, hackathon, and trivia
• Casual dress every day

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us. Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.