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Nintex · 17 hours ago

Staff FinOps Engineer - US

Bellevue, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$120K/yr - $140K/yr

4+ years exp

Nintex is a leading company in process intelligence and automation, trusted by numerous global organizations. The role of Cloud FinOps Engineer involves collecting and analyzing cloud and SaaS expenses, improving forecasting accuracy, and implementing cost-saving strategies while collaborating with engineering teams to optimize cloud resource usage.

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Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Closely partner with Engineering teams to analyze cloud and SaaS data, spend trends to identify cost optimization and improved usage opportunities and create specific recommendations

Responsible for and input into the design and adherence to quality controls centered around FinOps

Work with the teams to ensure proper tagging and allocation of cloud resources for accurate cost tracking and reporting (both initially and ongoing)

Create FinOps focused knowledge articles/documentation and promote FinOps best practices/concepts to arm and empower teams

Recommend and/or implement strategies to optimize costs, such as right-sizing resources, purchasing reserved instances or savings plans, and shutting down unused resources

Provide input into and assist with the monitoring and reporting on cloud usage against budget and forecast, explore trends in cloud and SaaS spend. Assist with detecting, investigating, and escalating anomalies and unplanned spikes

Create reports, dashboards and alerts to track spending and usage trends and the potential impact of cost optimizations

Where required, assist in implementing, maintaining and governing the FinOps practice

Keep up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to FinOps

Implement a mechanism to attribute cloud and SaaS spends back to individual departments, projects, or teams

Recommend and/or implement automatic cost optimization strategies, such as shutting down non-production environments outside of working hours

Recommend and/or implement governance mechanisms to prevent wasteful resources

Collaborate with cloud and SaaS service providers to understand pricing models and discount opportunities

Where appropriate, negotiate contracts and pricing with vendors to ensure cost-effectiveness

Input into the mediation between competing technical priorities across teams

Qualification

Cloud FinOps engineeringCloud cost optimizationFinancial analysisSQL queryingPublic cloud knowledgeExcel skillsPowerPoint skillsCost management toolsContainerized environmentsAutomation languagesCost savings mindsetAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsPresentation skillsTeam collaborationNegotiation skillsProblem-solving skills

Required

2+ years of experience in Cloud FinOps engineering analysis and Cloud cost optimization

4+ years in cloud operations role managing Cloud environments, budgets, forecasts and implementing financial controls

Strong principles of financial analysis

Proven analytical skills and experience with cost optimization

Working knowledge of the public cloud providers

Ability to query, transform, analyze and summarize data efficiently and accurately

Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations

Excellent SQL querying, Excel and PowerPoint skills

Understanding of cloud cost management tools

Experienced in containerized environments, microservices, Terraform and serverless

Experience in one or more automation/development languages (PowerShell, Command Line Interface, Python)

Solid understanding of application architecture, network technologies, and infrastructure architecture

Experience working on multi-million-dollar environments

Cost savings and cost optimization mindset

Ability to drive savings

Preferred

FinOps Certified Practitioner/Associate/Professional from FinOps Foundation

Benefits

Global Gratitude and Recharge Days

Flexible, paid time off policy

Employee wellness programs and counseling resources

Meaningful peer recognition and awards

Paid parental leave

Invention/patenting assistance

Community impact, paid volunteer time, and opportunities

Intercultural learning and celebration

Multiple tools through which to learn and grow, and an incredible global community

Company

Nintex

Glassdoor4.4

Nintex enables enterprise it professionals to more easily create and manage simple to sophisticated business processes.

Founded in 2006

Bellevue, Washington, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.nintex.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Nintex has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (3)

2024 (2)

2023 (1)

2021 (2)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$135M

Key Investors

Harcourts ParamountThoma Bravo

2021-10-05Acquired

2019-11-13Corporate Round

2018-02-09Private Equity

Leadership Team

Eric Emans

Chief Financial Officer

Christian Lucarelli

Vice President, Global Partner Sales & Strategy