GCP FinOps Engineer
hace 1 día
Newport-on-Tay
Job DetailsJob Title: GCP FinOps EngineerLocation- Newport, UKKey Responsibilities(Individual contributor role) • Optimise large scale data analytics workloads through partitioning, clustering, query rewrites, storage format improvements, and lifecycle policies., • Tune containerised microservices by recalibrating CPU/memory requests, improving autoscaling efficiency, and restructuring workload placement on cost efficient compute., • Redesign workflow orchestration pipelines for parallel execution, increased concurrency, and offloading heavy tasks to lower cost execution environments., • Analyse distributed data processing pipelines to right size worker types, adjust scaling thresholds, and adopt low cost compute for batch workloads., • Reduce log processing and storage overhead through log level standardisation, routing rules, exclusion filters, and retention optimisation., • Implement storage tiering strategies based on access patterns and enforce lifecycle rules to minimise cold data retention costs., • Improve relational database performance through index tuning, connection optimisation, and instance right sizing., • Enhance horizontally scalable database performance via autoscaling policies, index improvements, and mitigation of read/write hotspots., • Build dashboards, budgets, alerts, and guardrails to drive ongoing cost governance and financial accountability., • Collaborate with engineering teams to embed cost efficient architecture patterns and operational best practices.Key Skills / Knowledge, • 5+ years of hands-on experience in Google Cloud, • Strong understanding of GCP Data services (indexing, slots, pruning, partitioning, clustering), • Expert-level Kubernetes & GKE resource tuning, • Hands-on experience with Dataflow job pipelines and worker optimisation, • Strong Airflow/Composer knowledge (DAG design, scheduling, PodOperator), • Strong Dataflow processing pipelines development & schedulers knowledge, • Deep understanding of Cloud Logging routing, sinks, exclusion filters, • Experience with Cloud Spanner autoscaling, indexing, schema optimisation, • Cloud SQL performance tuning and indexing, • Ability to analyse billing data & resource consumption, • Experience using GCP Cost Explorer, Recommender API, Billing Export, • Ability to quantify cost savings and present ROI to leadership, • Build dashboards, alerts, and budget guardrails, • Strong communication and stakeholder management, • Ability to collaborate across engineering, data, and product teams, • Structured problem-solving mindset, • Ownership-driven, proactive and independentExperience Required, • Min 5+ years experience in Google Cloud JBRP1_UKTJ