FinOps Engineer & Consultant (m/w/d)

As a FinOps Engineer & Consultant at Cortex Reply, you'll build the platforms, pipelines, and automation that give enterprises real-time control over their technology spend. This is a hands-on engineering role at the intersection of infrastructure, automation, and financial analytics - turning raw billing data into actionable, automated optimisation. We work with the FinOps Foundation, shape industry standards, and expand the discipline into AI, sustainability, and beyond. Your Tasks Cost Visibility & Tooling Engineering Design integrations across AWS, Azure, and GCP billing APIs Architect data pipelines that normalise and unify multi-cloud, SaaS, and on-prem spend data Build dashboards, cost views, and real-time alerting using BI and observability tools Automation & Policy Enforcement Design automated cost controls: policy-as-code guardrails (tagging, sizing, lifecycle), event-driven automation for idle resource cleanup and budget notifications Write reusable Terraform modules embedding cost-awareness into provisioning Infrastructure Optimisation Generate rightsizing recommendations and remediate waste across cloud, SaaS, AI, and on-prem workloads Optimise Kubernetes workloads, storage tiers, network egress, and managed service configurations Cost Allocation & Tagging Engineering Design and enforce tagging frameworks at scale Implement automated compliance checks and remediation workflows Build showback/chargeback systems mapping spend to business units, products, and teams Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner with DevOps, Platform, and SRE teams to embed FinOps into existing workflows Enable engineering self-service through tools, APIs, and integrations that surface cost context Collaborate with finance to translate engineering data into business reporting Thought Leadership Develop FinOps blueprints and playbooks Contribute trainings, talks, and publications Expand offerings into FinOps for AI, FinOps for SaaS, or sustainability tracking Client Advisory & Consu