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AWS FinOps cloud engineer

Lumen Solutions Group Inc.United States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 24 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role at Lumen Solutions Group Inc. offers a fantastic opportunity to drive cloud transformation and optimize financial operations using your AWS and FinOps expertise. You'll thrive here if you have a passion for SRE and DevOps best practices, making a significant impact on a reputable technology consulting firm. Apply today to leverage your skills and grow your career in cloud engineering.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Company Description  
Lumen Solutions Group Inc. is a technology consulting Services company based in Florida. We provide a wide array of experienced business and IT professionals supporting clients from solution design to implementation and support. We specialize in professional IT consulting services, IT Staffing, Business/IT Strategy, Business Process Blueprints, Enterprise Architecture, and Enterprise Transformation.  
  
Role: AWS FinOps cloud engineer 
Location: Washington – DC (Remote) 
Job Type: Contract 
 
Job Summary: 
We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Platform / FinOps Engineer to lead cloud transformation initiatives, optimize cloud financial operations, and enhance platform reliability through SRE and DevOps best practices. This role requires strong expertise in AWS cloud engineering, FinOps, cloud governance, automation, and cost optimization.
 
  • Minimum of 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Platform engineering. 
  • Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives 
  • 2+ years cloud cost optimization / FinOps / cloud financial management. 
  • Experience with SRE principles and transformation 
  • Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python. 
  • Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers) 
  • Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to Ous, tagging, IAM concepts, VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc. 
  • Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code. 
  • Minimum of One AWS certification is required. 
  • A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc. 
    Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.  
     
Must have experience with: 
  • IBM Apptio / Apptio Cloudability or similar cloud cost tools. 
  • AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, Cost and Usage Reports, Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection. 
  • Power BI, QuickSight, Excel, SQL, or other dashboard/reporting tools. 
  • FOCUS / FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification Awareness. 
  • Data normalization across providers and tools. 
  • Define and enforce tagging standards. 
  • Map cloud costs to tech stack, product, portfolio, application, environment, and account ownership. 
  • Partner with engineering teams to correct missing or inconsistent metadata. 
  • Support policies for account creation, ownership, cost accountability, and reporting accuracy. 
  • Build cloud cost visibility, reporting, dashboards, and executive summaries across cloud services. 
  • Analyze cost drivers, usage patterns, budget variance, forecasts, and optimization opportunities. 
  • Support showback / chargeback, cost allocation, tagging accuracy, and business-unit accountability. 
  • Identify waste such as idle resources, oversized instances, orphaned storage, unattached IPs, unused commitments, and non-optimized storage tiers. 
  • Run anomaly detection and response processes for unexpected cost spikes. 

Lumen Solutions Group Inc is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any legally protected status.  

Skills

SQL
AWS
Ansible
Git
Jenkins
Power BI
Python
Terraform

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